[buried] Obama aides said the president-elect will make an all-out push to convince Americans the government must spend $1 trillion to create jobs, provide cash for spending and shore up the finances of the state governments.
Global economic imbalances helped to foster the credit crisis by pushing down global interest rates and driving investors towards riskier assets, outgoing US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told the Financial Times.
In a valedictory interview, Mr
A computer glitch at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gave gold traders a 23-minute bonanza that cost the bank dearly last week, sparking a debate on Monday as the bank reclaimed the windfall.
U.S. regulators working to untangle Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme are probing other money managers suspected of using similar tactics, two people with knowledge of the inquiries said.
The decline in U.S. manufacturing deepened in December as demand for such products as cars, appliances and furniture reached the lowest level since at least 1948, signaling further cutbacks in factory jobs and production this year.
In what amounts to an Afghan version of the surge in Iraq, the U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into the south, augmenting 12,500 NATO soldiers who have proved too few to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO
The civilian death toll climbed in Israel's air offensive against the Gaza Strip on Friday. There was no sign of a ceasefire on the seventh day of the conflict, in which at least 425 Palestinians have been killed and 2,000 wounded, but a Palestin
Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline, which means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs. A federal commission created by Congress to find a way to make up the growing
Doc Childre, founder of HeartMath, a leading stress research institute, has written a free booklet De-Stress Kit for the Changing Times that provides a few simple practices to help people intercept and manage stress during this period of challenge an
When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.
President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.
I've compiled several interesting news articles & YouTube videos regarding a public forum held on November 3, 2008 in Jefferson County, Washington below. The forum was prompted by widespread concern regarding the use of suspicionless checkpoints
New York's police chief warned Wednesday that banks need to beef up security as thieves respond to the recession with a wave of heists. "We have seen an up tick in bank robberies," Commissioner Raymond Kelly told CNN.
...a recommendation before the State Bar of Arizona... to require all new lawyers to swear they won't let their personal religious perspective on homosexuality affect their representation of any client.
As a civilization, we face ominous challenges in 2009: energy, water shortages, hyper-population growth, balkanization, immigration and many other dilemmas.
Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama and discovers the voting machine mysteriously keeps changing his vote to McCain. (Below the video it says "Do right by your family and country: Vote 3rd party, write in or NOTA!")
Renowned financial publication The Economist reports that, based on the characteristics of the current financial crisis, the U.S. is in a depression, not a recession.
Homeland Security is developing a system called Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST for short. The system uses cameras to detect slight alterations in pupil sizes, blink rate and even direction of gaze.
It seems that everything that has gone wrong in the world economy can be directly, or indirectly, traced to government interventions. Despite this, the blame for this crisis is being laid at the door of the free market?
The steel industry, having entered the recession in the best of health, is emerging as a leading indicator of what lies ahead. As steel production goes — and it is now in collapse — so will go the national economy.
Proposals by UK Culture Secretary to introduce cinema-style ratings for websites across the globe might benefit from a little more fact-finding and a little less rhetoric. On the other hand, the danger of open-minded research, is it might just expose
As you opened your eyes this morning, a new set of laws -- especially on the state level but federal and local as well -- descended upon your life ... whether you know it or not. Lawmakers everywhere were busy last year; they passed laws that justifi
Angel Chandler is divorced from her husband and has custody of her daughter. Angel has been in a 9 year, same-sex relationship since her divorce. The courts make it clear that a parent may lose custody of their child if they are sleeping with someone
A group of small snowmen supporters were caught picketing outside of City Hall on the sidewalk, but they have since been removed. The city says the building's maintenance worker who is in charge of clearing the sidewalk of snow removed Snowzilla*
Minnesota is deep in the hole financially, but the state still owns a premier golf resort, a sprawling amateur sports complex, a big airport, a major zoo and land holdings the size of the Central American country of Belize.