The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don
The U.S. government said today it is asking German officials for travel documents needed to deport accused World War II Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who is charged in Europe with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
A lawsuit blaming the Army Corps of Engineers for flooding from Hurricane Katrina can proceed to trial, a judge ruled in a case seen as a likely last recourse for storm victims seeking compensation from the federal government for alleged negligence b
Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford became the first governor to reject some of his state's share of President Barack Obama's economic stimulus money, spurning $700 million that he said would harm his state's residents in the long run.
Media reports: “American Idol” is the best entertainer of the season! I disagree. This TV-Reality show is a “shockers” to audience afflicted with a Super Bowl type of entertainment addiction.
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Prince William County police, social services and school officials received numerous reports from people who saw firsthand that 13-year-old Alexis "Lexie" Agyepong-Glover was being abused and neglected by her adoptive mother in the two year
In a stunning denial of their oath of office, members of the House of Representatives today voted 216-150 to defeat HCR 6, the bill that sought to reaffirm the US and NH Constitutions. A massive rally was held ahead of the vote.
[suckers] Time to set the clock forward by an hour. Daylight saving time is returning to shift an hour of light to the evenings. That means push the clocks ahead before going to bed Saturday night. The official change occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, EST tim
President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, scheduled to be announced Monday, is expected to provide a major boost to one of the most promising but controversial fields of biomedical r
3 1/2 years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city's police force are worried they will have to
The director of the Community Services Division for the Department of Social and Health Services, Leo Ribas, says the checks mailed Feb. 17 trigger an additional $43 million in federal food benefits. They also connect recipients to an energy assistan
House Democrats unveiled a $410 billion spending bill on Monday to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year, setting up the second political struggle over federal funds in less than a month with Republicans.
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A Pennsylvania dog groomer has been ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges for selling "gothic kittens" with ear, neck and tail piercings. Her home was raided after the county Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got a
With a recent flurry of winter storms doing little to dampen California's latest drought, the nation's biggest public utility voted to impose water rationing in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two decades. [When gov't. controls a
The Speaker of the House wants everyone to pay the minimum wage except herself and other politicians. Watch Pelosi call the guard on Jan Helfeld to prevent any more questions.
A 2007 research paper that assured District residents they had not been harmed by lead in their water is under investigation because of concerns that the chief author gave the city's water authority final approval of the paper.
California's octuplets mom, already jobless and receiving food stamps, has gone into hiding with her six older children because of death threats, her spokesman said. Nadya Suleman, 33, has come under mounting public ridicule for expanding her alr
With millions of U.S. viewers still apparently unprepared for the nation's switch to digital TV, nearly 500 full-power television stations across the nation are preparing to move ahead with the transition and drop traditional over-the-air broadca
When Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets on January 26th, she got revulsion, ridicule and death threats. A talk radio host who called her a freak said his listeners were prepared to boycott any company that helped out mother or babies.
Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
The card numbers, expiration dates, and in some cases cardholder names were exposed after attacks on its computer systems at the one point where data had been unencrypted. Exposed tens of millions of credit and debit cardholders to the risk of fraud
A Holland Township police sergeant present Friday when the Campbell children were removed from their home said New Jersey officials assured him it had nothing to do with the siblings' Nazi-inspired names.
The New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services and police officers have taken custody of 3-year old Adolf Hitler Campbell, a month after a local supermarket refused to write his name on his birthday cake. JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 1, and
Six weeks before the nation’s television stations are scheduled to convert to digital transmission, an aide to President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to consider a delay.