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At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers.
As U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd attempts to seal his legacy by pushing through sweeping financial reform legislation this year, the real changes that threaten financial firms' bottom lines lie in the ever-shifting hands of regulators.
If only we'd had more power, we could have kept the financial crisis from getting so bad. That is the position of Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman. It is why they are pushing Congress to give the Fed more authority over financial firms.
A federal appeals court endorsed the government's sweeping authority to detain terrorism suspects whom it can link to al-Qaeda, the Taliban and affiliated groups. They went further rejecting attempts to apply principles from "the laws of war" to dete
Researchers have unveiled super-small solar cells no bigger than the pieces of glitter on your holiday ornaments and cards. These highly efficient photovoltaics could be game-changers in the burgeoning field of solar power, allowing arrays of microce
Buzzing above the heads of marveled, camera-snapping media representatives at CES was a weird looking, smooth-flying toy helicopter from Parrot that can be controlled with nothing more than an iPhone or iPod Touch and appropriate software.
Hunger Strike Day 45 Continental Congress '09, I have posted a video on my site NotThisTime.net, , today that expresses the conditions for me to end this hunger strike. Those conditions are - that I will begin eating again, on the day I r
In November of 2008, America elected Barack Obama as its’ 44th President. Since his election President Obama has repeatedly promised to “fundamentally transform America”. The question is – into what? Will 2010 be the dawn of Socialism in America?
If you would like to lobby the Mayor and/or any Phoenix City Council member, you must register (or re-register) for 2010. [Do you smell a FOIA request?] You can download the handbook or call the Official Records section of the City Clerk Department
Officials in Tennessee want a 90-year-old Florida woman to turn over a marriage license application filed by legendary Alamo defender Davy Crockett more than 2 centuries ago. The woman's son said the document has been in the family for years. "She sa
With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama's party. Taken together, the decisions by Sens. Chris Dodd of
2 suspected US drone missile strikes killed at least 12 people in an area of Pakistan’s volatile northwest teeming with militants suspected in a recent suicide attack that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
A raft of sci-fi-inspired gadgets and technologies are being announced this month, promising a future of 3-D television, super-smart phones and next-generation electronic tablets that wrap the features of a laptop and a digital book into one wafer-th
Bin Laden has written about this. He has said, 'I want the Americans to come over here and get bogged down, bankrupt their country, and besides it'll help my recruiting efforts.' And we are doing exactly what he had planned."
If you’re in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food?
With the aid of satellite imagery from Google Earth, soon archeologists in Brazil will be finding more and more large geometric designs carved into the ground in the Amazon rainforest. The geoglyphs are believed to have been sculpted by ancient peopl
When it is in equilibrium, rural Afghan society is a triangle of power formed by the tribal elders, the mullahs, and the government..
The combination of a large cranium and immature face would look decidedly unusual to modern eyes, but not entirely unfamiliar. Such faces peer out from the covers of countless science fiction books and are often attached to “alien abductors” in movie
The note read “Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price … We’ll talk.”
Coming soon to a Congress near you: Sen. Shumer and Rep Barney Frank will introduce a bill to require universal voter registration. What is universal voter registration? It means all of the state laws on elections will be overriden by a federal mand
"We need to make it clear," fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman's Benevolent Association, "that if someone lifts even a finger against a police officer, their life could be on the line." Taken literally, this would make a c
Greg Schubert, had a pistol concealed under his suit coat, and Mr. Schubert was walking in what the court described as a "high crime area." At some point a police officer, J.B. Stern, who lived up to his last name, caught a glimpse of the attorney's
A judge in Dickson County, Tenn., had officers pull a spectator out of his courtroom "on a hunch," held him in custody and made him submit to a urinalysis for drugs. The judge "routinely drug-screens 'spectators' in his courtroom if he 'thinks' they
Mr Grimsson today refused to sign off on the bill after fierce political pressure from the country's opposition party and a petition against the Bill signed by nearly a quarter of the country's voters.
When they became young adults, their father asked them to volunteer for suicide missions. When Omar protested, bin Laden said, "You hold no more a place in my heart than any man or boy in the entire country. This is true for all my sons."
A passenger whose bag tested positive for explosives at a California airport prompting authorities to shut down the facility and divert flights, said he was carrying only bottled honey. Hours later he was still being held for questioning, and investi
A marine biologist says he has discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.
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The number of people preparing to buy a home fell sharply in November, an unsettling new sign that the housing market may be headed for a "double-dip" downturn over the winter. The figures came after a similarly discouraging report on new home sales,
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the deepest look into the universe peering back as far as Hubble can look, to about 600 million to 800 million years after the theoretical Big Bang. The universe is about 13.7 billion years old.
