A mild-mannered Brooklyn high school teacher says he was nearly scared to death by NYPD cops who mistook him for a perp.

When the violent encounter was over, Lester Jacob, 50, suffered… Continue reading

Looking high and low, Robbin Thorp can no longer find a species of bumblebee that just five years ago was plentiful in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon.

Thorp, an emeritus professor of entomology from the University… Continue reading

Presidential candidate Ron Paul has made a dire prediction that the dollar could collapse to absolute zero - precipitating hyper inflation, soaring oil prices and a global economic… Continue reading

Federal officials have refused to divulge the location of tax protester Ed Brown who was arrested on Friday, prompting many of his supporters to fear that Brown has been disappeared into a… Continue reading

The US intends to supply Mexico with a $1bn aid package to help combat an increasingly costly and violent war against drugs, according to a top Mexican diplomat.

The agreement, which some experts have… Continue reading

Sprawled on his stomach outside a gas station in Golden Valley, Minn., Al Hixon had a police officer’s boot planted on his neck and pepper spray shot deep into his nostrils, scorching his

According to Reality Show, a book by Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz which hits bookshelves this week, CBS’ Katie Couric felt pressured by NBC to ‘lighten up’ on her coverage of the war… Continue reading

The next few days will see a furious lobbying effort as progressive lawmakers and their political allies build on a small victory to get privacy protection and liability for telecommunications companies included in… Continue reading

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Last November it became a crime for a woman to have an abortion in Nicaragua, even if her life was in mortal danger. So far it has resulted in the death… Continue reading

A sheriff’s deputy went on a shooting rampage Sunday, killing his ex-girlfriend and five other teenagers at a house party in a small town in Wisconsin, authorities said.The 20-year-old deputy and all those shot were… Continue reading

Two well-respected US peace activists, CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright… Continue reading

IT is a chilling, dystopian account of what Britain will look like 10 years from now: a world in which Fortress Britain uses fleets of tiny spy-planes to watch its citizens, of Minority Report-style pre-emptive… Continue reading

This is one huge fish! I bet it can feed an entire village for a week.

Did this thing come from the Ice Age???

Bigfoot half crab hybrid?… Continue reading

The water baby: Amazing pictures that capture the moment a dolphin joins the
world
It is one of the rarest and most magical sights in the natural world.

A bottlenose dolphin goes into labour . . . then… Continue reading

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“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when

Janessa Gans, a visiting political science professor at Principia College who served as a US official in Iraq from 2003 to 2005, opened fire on the private security contractor Blackwater in Saturday’s edition of the… Continue reading

Mary Powers of Madison takes marijuana to relieve nausea caused by AIDS and cancer.

Brian Barnstable of Milwaukee uses it to ease multiple sclerosis pain.

Both patients can get the pot they smoke and bake with… Continue reading

Lying on a spartan bed, feeding her tiny daughter from a bottle, teenager Wai Ling describes her heartbreaking dilemma.Under China’s strict birth-control laws, Wai Ling, 19, and her boyfriend, 21, are too young to get… Continue reading

Topps Meat Company, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of frozen hamburgers, said today it was going out of business after it recalled more than 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products last month.

The company… Continue reading

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A county garbage operations employee found a plastic bag on the road stuffed with $65,000 Thursday _ and immediately turned it in to authorities.

It turned out the money had fallen off a Loomis… Continue reading

Tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown were tricked by US Marshals who entered their home yesterday afternoon posing as supporters. The Marshals entered the house at a time when there… Continue reading

A couple convicted of tax evasion who threatened violence if authorities approached them were arrested peacefully at their rural Plainfield home after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, U.S. Marshals said… Continue reading

A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said.

Ronald “Bo” Ward, owner… Continue reading

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CNN reported on Thursday that a British judge has called Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth unfit for schools “because it is politically biased and… Continue reading

Disabled men entered onto terrorism database indefinitely after detention and questioning

Two disabled men from Bournemouth, England were seized from a pub at gunpoint by police under the terrorism act, taken to the… Continue reading

More out of control school security guards have been accused of assaulting children and also the media, as a camerawoman who wasn’t even on school property had her equipment shoved in her face… Continue reading

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Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, “If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated.”

What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily… Continue reading

Retiring military chief declares: AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN’T VOTE TO END IRAQ WAR

______________”Just as telling as the substance of Pace’s comments was the reaction to them in Washington political and media circles, where… Continue reading