A suburban mother charged with running an upscale, urbane escort service is headed for trial after a judge declined Thursday to throw out the case.
The judge set an Oct. 15 trial date in Anna Gristina’s case, which has been spiced with prosecutors
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating complaints from airport security officers that the "chat-down" program at Boston's Logan airport has become a magnet for racial profiling.
A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles operated undetected in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks and its travel in strategic U.S. waters was only confirmed after it left the region, the Washington Free Beac
Bond insurer Syncora Guarantee has filed a lawsuit to prevent California from eliminating the state's 400 local redevelopment agencies, claiming that the plan unfairly deprives bondholders of money they are owed.
New federal standards for "black boxes" that record information leading up to auto accidents will will take effect Sept. 1, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruled on Tuesday.
In United States v. Skinner it ruled that because we all know cell phones have GPS transponders that can broadcast our locations at any time, we have no reasonable expectation of privacy when we carry them.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT – South African police open fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing at least a dozen men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. The SAPA domestic news a
Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”.
A quarter of America’s major metropolitan roads have stretches in substandard condition, and drivers pay the consequences—potholes alone cost car owners an average of $335 a year in tires, repair and maintenance.
August 18, 2012 a group of mothers and others, members of the advocacy groups, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Lemonade Freedom Day, will take their raw milk and lemonade to the lawn of the US Capitol to celebrate their right to “voluntary exchange.”
The satirical news site for the military, published by BI Smoke Pit Contributor and owner of CollegeVeteran.com Paul Szoldra, was brought down this morning after a link in an Army Times article about the blog overloaded the site with traffic.
The trial of ousted Chinese leader Bo Xilai's wife for the murder of British man Neil Heywood may have only lasted 7 hours, but its still throwing up twists.
Nassim Taleb – the man behind the term "black swan" – just published a new paper taking aim at Wall Street titled Why It is No Longer a Good Idea to Be in The Investment Industry.
NYU economist Nouriel Roubini is worried that Europe may be throwing good money after bad as it hooks up peripheral banking systems to ECB life support.
NATO is reporting that 11 people, including seven American troops, were killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. The other casualties were "three members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and one civilian interpreter" acco
One Difference Between a Free Man and a Slave?, The right to own weapons and defend yourself, says Doug Casey. - Why Is AK47 Demand Soaring? - Murray Rothbard on what the Puritans did to the Quakers - Big Pharma Hunts for an Expensive Cure
Pete Eyre gives an update on Ademo Freeman's case (Donate to Ademo and/or CopBlock.Org) - Brock Lorber on economy and housing market - Alan Korwin provides insight on the agenda behind the Batman Dark Knight massacre in Aurora, Colorado
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The author points out the “evil” behind the accusation of America as an “Evil Empire”. This is to say the least, unique. Yours truly, Bolopunch. 08/16/12.
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According to London bookmakers, during the 2012 U.S. presidential election the odds again favor Obama, although with almost three months remaining until election day, the company admits those odds could change—even dramatically. But as of this writin
Why does chemotherapy seem to work at first, but then cancer tumors cells grow back even more aggressively while the body becomes resistant to chemotherapy?[ blowback
two additional species of our genus -- Homo -- living alongside our direct human ancestral species,Homo erectus, almost two million years ago. The finds, announced in the scientific
When international agreements like the Oslo Accords are born it is very difficult for them to go out of existence. In general in the world of international diplomacy, when two countries make a diplomatic agreement it is permanent, like a country’s la