Mayor Bloomberg has uncharacteristically adjusted New York’s position on marijuana arrests. The move would downgrade marijuana position from an arrestable offense to a fineable one while also increasing ticket revenue and reducing the overcrowded pr
One of the great absurdities of our modern financial system is that a nation living within its means, i.e. spending less than what it confiscates in tax revenue, is no longer the norm.
...a pair of less noticed local elections Tuesday in California could have more immediate ramifications for struggling state and local governments and for organized labor.
A federal judge is blocking legislation authorizing the government to indefinitely detain without trial an “individual who was part of or substantially supported” groups “engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.”
The $211 million Blue Devil 2 airship, built for the Air Force by the tiny, Virginia-based company Mav6, is slated for dismantling and storage at the end of this week.
An International Monetary Fund report on Spanish banks will show the country's troubled lenders need a cash injection of at least 40 billion euros ($50 billion), sources in the financial sector said Thursday.
After a judge in Texas sentenced a 17-year-old girl to a night in jail for missing school, critics across the country responded by condemning the court’s decision.
The Federal Reserve released a proposal to enact an international agreement on higher capital standards for banks, known as Basel III, that largely rejects pleas by the U.S. banking industry to soften parts of the new standards.
Via KHOU-11/Huffington Post: "Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was forced to spend the night in jail last week after missing too many classes
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe was ready to act to ensure stability in the euro zone as Spain's credit rating was cut by three notches on Thursday amid expectations it may soon seek EU help for banks beset by bad debts.
America has been overrun by control freaks. Once upon a time the United States was considered to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave", but today there are millions of laws, rules and regulations that tightly regulate our daily lives.
It was Vietnam and it's images that dispelled me of the notion of American exceptionalism. It was the first time I wanted to escape America, but not the last.
Michael Kenneth Williams stars alongside Sonja Sohn, & Felicia "Snoop" Pearson from "The Wire" in "The Wire: The Musical" where they will allow you to experience America's failing drug war through the magic of song!
Now, a long withheld police video has surfaced that shows troopers severely beating Bayliss who was thrown to the ground and pummeled by multiple officers.
For many of these populations, this is the first time their genetics have been analyzed on a population scale. One study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, focuses on the Haida and Tlingit communities of southeastern Alaska.
Now, a new study reveals that the northern treeline in Rocky Mountains was at a much higher altitude from six to nine thousand years ago, which confirms the extra warm climate was not just limited to the Finland/Siberia areas.
It’s not often economists will admit to bafflement, especially on a matter of utmost importance to national economic health.
As the predominant measure of standard of living, productivity of labour in Canada, has fallen notoriously short
They are responsible for the cattle mutilation phenomena although not responsible for the actual killing of the cattle. Their effective range and small beak pretty well clinches it. They would also land directly on the carcass and concentrate on soft
The Federal Election Commission announced that the Libertarian Party presidential candidate has qualified for federal matching funds and that Johnson’s third-party bid for the nation’s highest office will receive an initial payment of $100,000.