The Federal Open Market Committee of the nation's central bank, an intricate part of the United States government may be continuing to destroy its source records, a policy it began in 1995 with an unrecorded vote -no fingerprints - conducted by then Chairman Alan Greenspan. In many areas the deals have led to evictions, civil unrest and complaints of "land grabbing". According to Stars and Stripes, a defense audit discovered “that military doctors were regularly performing breast augmentations, tummy tucks, liposuction and other purely cosmetic surgery without always charging patients as required.” The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican's chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday. Public and private sector unions ground flights and halt services in a second national strike against government plans to cut spending and raise taxes to shrink the huge deficit and get Greece's faltering economy back on track. A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. Some New York City chefs and restaurant owners are taking aim at a bill introduced in the New York Legislature that, if passed, would ban the use of salt in restaurant cooking. What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a “House of Flying Daggers” DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You’re better than that. A little–noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old. 2010 is the tenth and deadliest year in Washington’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for targeted assassinations and untargeted “collateral damage.” Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside. The U.S. government ran its largest ever monthly budget deficit in February as the country's fiscal year-to-date deficit ballooned more than 10% to a record of $651.60 billion. Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school's toilets. House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank caused a bit of an uproar Friday when he suggested the U.S. government does not guarantee the debts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned.
The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine is a disgrace. It's time to end it, not mend it.
New York's latest food campaign would impose a tax on the syrup added to soda and sweetened drinks. American foreign policy has never been independent of politics, but in recent years, politics has come first. Why is Barack Obama having such a difficult time undoing Bush-era damage to the Department of Labor? It's time for Obama to let go of his unimaginative strategy
in the Middle East and take a more proactive approach.
How to let individuals out of the insurance mandate and improve the odds of health-care reform. A love letter to mail carriers everywhere. Conservative Democrats are not his invention. We have a moral obligation to focus on international women's uplift, but we must also act locally. Is promoting responsible fatherhood really the best way to lift families out of poverty?
TAP talks to a former police chief who thinks drugs should be legal about new efforts to ban a pot substitute. Tumblr, a relatively new blogging platform, just might be the future of the social Internet.
The latest drama over the White House's chief of staff and its record on national security is much ado about nothing. Penn just announced they would use admissions data about sexual orientation to recruit gay students. But does that really open the door for true diversity?
How a smearing of Justice Department lawyers as "terrorist sympathizers" traveled from the conservative media to the United States Senate. This week's reauthorization of the Patriot Act comes on the heels of the revelation Obama's Office of Legal Counsel granted fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking.
Well, not exactly. But the Kentucky senator might prove that the filibuster has made fools of us all. Contrary to Republican arguments, tort reform is no health-care cure-all. So why are Democrats seriously considering it? Why some young Western Muslims find al-Qaeda's narrative so appealing. Eight meaningful things Obama could do right now -- without getting caught in congressional gridlock.
JERUSALEM -- Israeli army prosecutors on Thursday charged two soldiers for using a young Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps during last year's fighting in Gaza, a military spokeswoman told AFP.
She said the two soldiers, both staff sergeants, were charged of acting "in breach of military norms" for forcing the boy to open bags they [...] WASHINGTON -- In a boost to President Barack Obama's flagship reform drive, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a Senate health care bill would cut the deficit by 118 billion dollars.
The release of the report thickened the intrigue in a tense period of vote hunting for Obama's Democratic allies in the House of Representatives, with [...] Reports suggest call has been widely receivedA Raw Story editor received a robocall from an organization claiming to be "Voter Talk 2010" on Thursday asking whether they support the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
"This is Survey 2010 when a brief survey. Do you consider yourself to be a Tea Party patriot?" asked a voice. After [...] A teenager in Littleton, Colorado, was arrested and spent eight hours in jail for failing to return an overdue DVD to a local library.
Nineteen-year-old Aaron Henson was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 70 last month, and found himself in prison after police found a failure-to-appear warrant out for his arrest.
Henson hadn't returned House of [...] Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame call Rove book 'a hoax'
Former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove has a new book out, Courage and Consequence, in which he attempts to justify his years in the White House. Longtime investigative journalist Michael Isikoff, however, is not impressed.
"It is a selective cherry-picking of history," Isikoff told MSNBC's David [...] The ever-colorful and controversial Michael Moore fleshed out his thesis that Democrats are wimps by mimicking them as babies and likening them to scared animals, during an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday.
"Democrats are in for an ass-whipping of biblical proportions in November if they don't get off the dime and do the job they were sent [...] While appearing on Glenn Beck's show Tuesday, Rep. Eric Massa admitted to "groping" several male staffers but said the contact was not sexual. Wednesday comedian Stephen Colbert enlisted the help of an intern to demonstrate how non-sexual groping works.
Massa is a victim in all this, claimed Colbert. After all, he was accosted in the Congressional [...] The scandal that erupted last year when it was revealed that Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) had not only had an affair with the wife of one of his top aides but may have violated Senate ethics rules in an attempt to hush the matter up expanded this week with the release of emails further documenting [...] Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) has threatened to kill the health care bill if the abortion restrictions aren't strong enough. But MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Wednesday argued that what he and his backers have demanded is a "legislative impossibility."
In order for the bill to be enacted, the House must first approve the Senate bill, and [...] Jokes that "half of these letters call me an idiot!"
WASHINGTON (AFP) ? US President Barack Obama joked on Wednesday that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an "idiot."
Tongue-in-cheek, the president remarked that his staff did not spare him the wrath of his correspondents -- selecting a [...] |
Chris Wright scored 27 points and No. 22 Georgetown sailed past No. 3 Syracuse with an impressive second-half surge, beating the top-seeded Orange 91-84 in the Big East tournament quarterfinals Thursday. Americans are recovering their shrunken wealth — gradually. An 18-year-old student says a Mississippi school board that canceled a high school prom did so in retaliation for her request to bring a same-sex date. Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69. Without a TV show to do every night, Conan O'Brien is taking his act on the road. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. Police said a man did more than take a pickup for a spin during a test drive this week. Red Star Auto of Lincoln reported a pickup had been stolen Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. The dealership's owner said a 39-year-old man had taken the truck for a test drive earlier Tuesday. Kingsport Police have filed a 10th DUI charge against a driver who was going about 20 miles per hour on Interstate 26 and weaving. The Kingsport Times -News reported that the 57-year-old man told the officer on Tuesday, "I'm drunk. Do what you gotta do." The police report stated that when asked to take sobriety, breath or alcohol tests, the man kept repeating that he was drunk. After 20 years as the face of organized labor in Pennsylvania and 50 years since the United Steelworkers issued his first union card, Bill George is stepping down as the state president of the AFL-CIO. Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs. A mayor loyal to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the expropriation of property owned by the country's largest food producer. Mikhail Torrance's 9-foot jumper broke a tie at 62 with 57 seconds left, and Alabama rallied from an 18-point deficit in the second half to beat South Carolina 68-63 Thursday in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Northrop Grumman Corp. said on Thursday that it issued layoff notices to 180 employees at its Hagerstown, Md., maintenance and modification center. Citigroup Inc. CEO Vikram Pandit says the bank is on a path toward "sustained profitability" as it sheds risky assets and focuses on emerging markets. Devotees of a man claiming to practice a traditional African religion said they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. Federal authorities in January raided the Miami man's home after receiving complaints. The man has not been criminally charged, but prosecutors and state and federal wildlife agencies are investigating. The Giant African Snail is prohibited in the U.S. without special approval. It can be a daunting experience: running your small company's booth at a trade show for the first time. Moody's Investors Service upgraded its debt ratings on Celestica Inc., a technology and engineering services provider, by one notch within junk territory after the company reduced its outstanding debt and improved its liquidity and cash flow. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is planning an announcement about his investigation of Gov. David Paterson, the governor's state police security detail and some of his staffers. Four legislators being prosecuted in a political scandal involving fraudulent expenses claims by hundreds of British lawmakers pleaded not guilty on Thursday. The cost to build the Pentagon's next-generation fighter jet has doubled since 2001, when the program began. Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. said Thursday it launched a generic version of Sanofi-Aventis' cancer treatment Eloxatin. Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on countries least tolerant of Internet freedoms: Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients. A man convicted in the 2007 slaying of a British student has written a letter implicating his co-defendants and denying he had ever said they had nothing to do with the murder.
Men are guilt-deficient, while women suffer from destructive guilt largely imposed by society, suggests a recent Spanish study.
Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice, scientists said on Thursday.
A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three and beating his children with boards.
Credit card companies have a simple strategy: Get your customers while they are young. Most students these days graduate with thousands of dollars in unpaid credit card bills.
The Palestinians threaten to pull out of U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel before negotiations even start.
The federal government has spent the past half year trying to roll back its efforts to support the financial markets, except for involvement in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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AP - The European Parliament voted Thursday to condemn Cuba for the "avoidable and cruel" death of a dissident hunger striker, earning a stinging response from Havana, which said it did not appreciate the lecture and would not respond to international pressure. Time.com - The Vatican faces a growing scandal as allegations have emerged that priestssexually and physically abused students in a choir run by the pope'sbrother, Georg Ratzinger AP - MEMC Electronics Materials Inc. said Thursday that its solar power subsidiary SunEdison has received final approval from the Italian government to build Europe's largest solar power plant near Rovigo in northeastern Italy.
Reuters - A federal budget last week did little to boost the fortunes the Conservatives, who still only have a slight lead in public support, according to a poll released on Thursday.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Partial results from Sunday's parliamentary elections showed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ahead in two southern provinces but apparently trailing former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in two central provinces, indicating a tight race amid allegations of fraud. The Christian Science Monitor - With the release of the latest Forbes rich list of billionaires, India is finding much to brag about – even as other fast-growing economies like China make their mark. Time.com - Hong Kong's mini-constitution under China promises eventual democracy for the city state, but little progress has been made over the past decade, despite mounting pressure from pro-democratic parties OneWorld.net - ABUJA,
Mar 8 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km
northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves
after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local
time) on 7 March.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Persian Gulf allies understand sanctions are the inevitable next step in dealing ...
A police official says U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband.
German educators sharply criticized Catholic church officials for their handling of a spiraling child abuse scandal even as more ...
One person was killed after tornadoes cut a path through Arkansas, ripping off rooftops and downing power lines along the way, ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi today filed suit in federal court against the Itawamba County School System ...
A British Airways computer expert was charged Thursday with plotting suicide bombings including one he allegedly planned to carry ...
Hours after terrorist bombs ripped through Madrid commuter trains six years ago Thursday, an outpouring of grief engulfed the ...
A Mississippi county school board announced Wednesday it would cancel its upcoming prom after a gay student petitioned to bring ...
Four are fighting Louisiana's required testing and licensing. The state is the only one with the rule.
The largest aftershock since Chile's devastating earthquake rocked the South American country Thursday minutes before the inauguration ...
Unsettled weather is forecast to continue throughout the southeastern and central USA on Thursday.
Meteorologists are predicting an active 2010 hurricane season with above-normal threats on the U.S. coastline.
Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 20,000 people ...
President Obama is pushing a new initiative to boost U.S. exports by enforcing trade deals and promoting American-made products ...
Vice President Biden has opened a high-profile speech in Israel with warm words of praise for the Jewish state.
Despite "Painful and Emotional Process," Superintendent Says Half of Kansas City's Schools to Close by Fall Ari Fleischer, Ex-Bush Aide and Current Woods Consultant, Refuses to Confirm or Deny Report that Golfer Will Return March 25 Potentially Lethal Inhalants More Commonly Used by 12-Year-Olds than Marijuana, Cocaine and Hallucinogens Combined 6.9-Magnitude Quake among 7 Aftershocks; New President Sebastian Pinera Urges Coastal Residents to Move to Higher Ground Riot Police Respond With Tear Gas and Stun Grenades as Masked Youths Punch and Kick Motorcycle Cops Despite "Painful and Emotional Process," Superintendent Says Half of Kansas City's Schools to Close by Fall Ari Fleischer, Ex-Bush Aide and Current Woods Consultant, Refuses to Confirm or Deny Report that Golfer Will Return March 25 Riot Police Respond With Tear Gas and Stun Grenades as Masked Youths Punch and Kick Motorcycle Cops John Boehner Had Tried to Force Inquiry Into What House Leadership Knew About House Democrat Accused of Sexual Harassment Toyota's Troubles Put Focus on Safety Agency that Ex-Head Calls "a Lapdog, Not a Watchdog" Potentially Lethal Inhalants More Commonly Used by 12-Year-Olds than Marijuana, Cocaine and Hallucinogens Combined 6.9-Magnitude Quake among 7 Aftershocks; New President Sebastian Pinera Urges Coastal Residents to Move to Higher Ground Corey Feldman, Corey Haim's Best Friend, Says "Lost Boys" Co-Star Didn't Commit Suicide, Despite Previous Suicide Attempts Police Allege Man Impregnated Teen Daughters, Beat Children, Moved to Avoid Welfare Investigation "Heretic Pharaoh" Likely Discovered With Same Tests That Tell How King Tut Died Sony Takes Aim At Japanese Rival Nintendo In Unveiling New Motion Controller |
