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Norway unveiled the world's first osmotic power plant on Tuesday, harnessing the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater to make clean electricity. "While salt might not save the world alone, we believe osmotic power will be an imp
The Arizona Legislature made sweeping changes to state teacher contracts earlier this year, removing seniority, salary and contract guarantees. Changes under House Bill 2011 mean that school districts will be prohibited from using tenure or senior
President Obama honored a group of women who have confronted Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said they had defied a dictator. "They often don't get far before being confronted by President Mugabe's riot police," Obama said
The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new [taxpayer subsidized] U.S.-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet and deliver it to Israel by 2015, provided a deal is sealed in coming months. Lockheed Martin Corp, maker of th
NY lawfully seized land needed for the $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, the state's highest court ruled. The project, which includes plans to build a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets alongside office and apartment buildings, has
European and U.S. stock markets fell Tuesday after the U.S. government said the U.S. economy did not grow as fast in the third quarter as previously estimated, stoking fears that the recovery in the world's largest economy will be slow. In its sec
President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
Jackass Alert! Someone ought to tell these people that monopolies are illegal. So are monopsony’s.
He says his office has gotten a green light to hire 3 attorneys to work exclusively on mortgage-fraud cases and that Washington officials recognize that Arizona has become a hub of white-collar schemes. "The Department of Justice criminal division ha
The economy grew at a 2.8 percent pace last quarter, as the recovery got off to a slower start than first thought. The Commerce Department's new reading on gross domestic product wasn't as energetic as the 3.5 percent growth rate for the July-Sept
On Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended what happened next: Passengers were briefly trapped with the murder suspect and the bleeding victim because police kept the subway doors closed as they combed the cars looking for the crime scene.
The gun banning front group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, headed by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, came out with a full page ad in the Washington Post recommending that the Federal Government now link the secret No Fly list to National Instant Background
Jin-Woo Kim, a biomedical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas, is part of a cutting-edge nanotechnology research group that has discovered a way to capture tumor cells in the bloodstream. The work could dramatically improve early can
The fact that we can not account for what is happening in the climate system makes any consideration of geoengineering quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not! It is a travesty
I don't see how the astonishing climate change e-mail scandal is anything but a disaster for the global warming community. This thing really does make one doubt what one had accepted as scientifically true, because the consensus was reported as over
NASA’s Cassini Mission has been sending back photos of Saturn’s moons to Earth for awhile. We have some of the newest, as well as others as we take a virtual tour of seven of the Many Moons of Saturn
The ACLU, known for taking sides which are unpopular has taken up the cause of several students in the state of Florida who were banned from wearing a “Islam of the Devil” t-shirt.
At its heart, Thanksgiving is a day of lessons learned. Its beginnings, which we celebrate, are a testament to liberty and its bountiful rewards. Think about those things you are grateful for and live your life showing you treasure them.
In the next several months, the Supreme Court will decide at least a half-dozen cases about the rights of people accused of crimes involving drugs, sex and corruption. Civil liberties groups and associations of defense lawyers have lined up on the si
A veteran Chinese human rights campaigner who challenged the central government over the faulty construction of school buildings that collapsed during last year's Sichuan earthquake was sentenced Monday to three years in prison, on a charge of posses
Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe's journey back to Earth. In a press release Thursday, officials said they will use the neutralizer of Thruster A an
Call it Operation: Plymouth Rock. A plan to send a crew of astronauts to an asteroid is gaining momentum, both within NASA and industry circles. Not only would the deep space sojourn shake out hardware, it would also build confidence in long-durat
A cutting-edge French warship sailed into St. Petersburg Monday to show off its capabilities to potential buyers in the Russian navy, whose pursuit of an amphibious assault capacity is frightening some neighboring countries.
All aboard on this train doesn't mean just people. It means minivans, cars and motorcycles, too. To board you have to be packing some serious luggage: every traveler must also be transporting a vehicle. Amtrak's Auto Train, the only one like it in
A Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer is facing accusations of brutality after a video showing him pushing an unruly man through a plate-glass window went viral over the weekend. Police in Oakland, California, have charged Michael Joseph Gibson
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning
The whole system was appalling. We experienced real difficulty in dealing with the American military and civilian organizations who, partly through arrogance and partly through bureaucracy, dictate that the only way is the American way.
Al-Ghizzawi is clearly an innocent man. Back in 2004, when the Bush administration convened military review boards to review the prisoners’ cases, they concluded there was insufficient evidence to declare him an “enemy combatant,” and that he should
The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true. But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.
Nearly 30 petrified passengers were trapped on a Midtown hell train yesterday with a knife-wielding madman and the blood-soaked body of a straphanger he just stabbed to death in a senseless argument over a seat. The train came to a screeching halt
