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A largely pro-immigrant reform measure introduced in Congress on Tuesday was celebrated at rallies in Seattle and across the country even as critics declared it an affront to hardworking Americans struggling in a weak job market
The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced. Delaying the requirement, which faces opposition from governors and Se
President Obama helped broker a climate deal with a group of leading nations that provides for monitoring emission cuts by each country but sets no global target for cutting greenhouse gases, and no deadline for reaching a formal international climat
Video cameras, long banned from most federal courtrooms, could be used in civil trials throughout the West under a new initiative in the federal judiciary’s Ninth Circuit. One of the first cases to be televised could be next month’s hearing over a ch
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Regulators on Friday shut down two big California banks, as well as banks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Illinois, bringing to 140 the number of U.S. banks brought down this year by the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.
A "bunker buster" bomb with more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor is to be put into service by the United States next December, six months later than previously scheduled, the Defense Department told Reuters.
Combining artificial sweeteners with the real thing boosts the stomach's secretion of a hormone that makes people feel full and helps control blood sugar. There's some evidence that artificial sweeteners may trigger secretion of glucagon-like peptide
Phil Mendelson sent a letter to D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier requesting a detailed account of the costs associated with the mayor's security detail, and whether the mayor ever reimbursed the city for the use of the detail for non-official business
Just so you boneheads know. If for some reason you are a country who is betting on the US giving up sovereignty or anything else just because some guy who claims to represent us said so, you are sorely mistaken. In America we have a thing called t
US lawmakers have introduced legislation to tighten "Buy American" rules that often anger major US trading partners by requiring that public sector projects rely on domestic goods and services.
What do you think of the nickname "Murder?" Would it influence you as a juror in a murder trial? How about "Savage Viking" or "Extreme?" The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed an attempted murder conviction for a US gang member,
It's no mistake. This credit card's interest rate is 79.9%. The bloated APR is how First Premier Bank, a subprime credit card issuer, is skirting new regulations intended to curb abusive practices in the industry. It's a strategy other subprime ca
“I would have less of a voice and I would have less respect if I voted for things I didn’t believe in because of pressure from the leadership,” DeFazio said. Obama himself has taken notice, saying “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,”
Investigation into claims that US military contractors in Afghanistan are paying the Taliban to guarantee the safety of their transportation convoys that means American taxpayers are funding the insurgency that has killed 900 American soldiers so far
The expenses racked up by U.S. lawmakers traveling here for a conference last month included one for the "control room." Besides rooms for sleeping, the 12 members of the House of Representatives rented their hotel's fireplace-equipped presidential s
By Phoenix Insurgent Everywhere the right to free movement is under attack. Cameras now track our travels from our workplaces to our roads to our neighborhoods to our schools, stretching all the way from the border to the county jail. The cameras
The Oregon town that is home to the "Naked Lady" (otherwise known as the "Environmental Exhibitionist") is having a fight over whether to ban nudity in the town's school zones.
Here's a tip if you need lecture notes from a classmate: don't threaten to put her up on Match.com and other sites--including Craigs List--if she doesn't give them to you.
The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congre
"I am looking for you, answer me." (I HAD to pass this along - Ed)
The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law with the actual change in state payroll employment through November 2009 (the latest figures available).
A Texas teenager who was sentenced to eight years in prison for graffiti and marijuana possession has had his sentence reduced under new state legal guidelines. Corpus Christi Judge Marisela Saldana sentenced 18-year-old Sebastian Perez to eight y
The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned after he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA. The CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of torture has
An FDA panel's recommendation that some adults with no prior heart problems could have millions of Americans being urged by their doctors to take the drug.
In the fine print of the form homeowners fill out to apply for Obama's program borrowers must waive important notification rights which allows banks to move straight to auctioning off their homes without any warning. [nice]
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Jewish students at a progressive High School Academy have been taunted and sent a threatening text message after a teacher, in class, denied the Holocaust.
“The Death of American Virtue,” asserts Bill Clinton had yet another extramarital affair, with Susan McDougal of Whitewater fame. Monica Lewinsky tells author Gormley the president lied under oath when he described their encounters.
World leaders and negotiators have been asked not to leave the summit until a climate deal is done after Friday afternoon’s talks failed to produce a breakthrough. The European Union environment commissioner, Stavros Dimas, told reporters that "T
