LAS VEGAS - Dueling delegations pitting Ron Paul’s Nevada supporters against those of John McCain vow to take their fight to the Republican National Convention.

That’s just one sign that the outsider, Internet-fueled movement… Continue reading

Washington, DC:  Members of Congress called on lawmakers to enact legislation that would limit the government’s authority to arrest and prosecute adults who possess marijuana for their own personal use.

The federal government should “not… Continue reading

Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, is worried about the giant mercenary firm’s latest foray into private intelligence. “They’re marketing their services to not only foreign… Continue reading

A 40-year-old man is in custody in Manitoba after a young man was stabbed — and, witnesses said, decapitated — aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through the province overnight.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks borrowed a record amount of funds from the Federal Reserve in the latest week as the year old credit crisis took a persistent toll, while the commercial paper market… Continue reading

It’s getting more and more expensive to send your kids back to school; but this weekend, families are getting a… Continue reading

The price of fuel has sent the number of pump drive-offs soaring. Now, some police departments are tired of trying to chase down the thieves. So several Metro East departments have made that an official… Continue reading

First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards.

Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well… Continue reading

GONZALES, Texas. — A school in Texas will force students who don’t follow the rules to wear prison-like jumpsuits in a controversial move this coming school year.

Gonzales High School has new navy blue… Continue reading

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With its spacious, tree-lined grounds and slightly threadbare classrooms, there is nothing obviously unusual about the Kampang Secondary School.

It is situated in Thailand’s impoverished north-east, and most of the pupils are… Continue reading

A branch of the US government is expected today to offer black Americans what it gave American Indians earlier this year: an apology for their past mistreatment.

A formal apology to black Americans for “enslavement… Continue reading

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies beginning this fall, making it the first U.S. city to impose such a… Continue reading

Many households have been hit so hard by rising food prices that they are skipping meals, a new survey reported in the Sun newspaper shows.

Barclays and children’s charity NCH released a joint survey yesterday… Continue reading

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Editor’s Note: Recent moves by the governor of Virginia to lift the ban on former felons voting may be a cynical ploy to increase the number of democratic voters in an election… Continue reading

Acid attacks are on the rise in Bangalore, leaving a trail of disfigured and often disabled women who, until recently, could find little sympathy among the public and next to no support from the state

HOUSTON — With a war in Iraq and fighting on the rise in Afghanistan, the struggle to bring in new U.S. Army recruits is heating up again.

And Irving Gonzales, 18, got caught up in… Continue reading

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May compared with a year earlier, according to a report Monday from the Federal Highway Administration.

“We have seen the longest decline in vehicular… Continue reading

The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at… Continue reading

According to the New York Times, Financial Times, and others, hedge funds and other investors are buying up farms, farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators, shipping equipment and other necessities for producing food.Given… Continue reading

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Information Operation Roadmap Part 3

The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for… Continue reading

A new concept in determining auto insurance bills is coming to the state with the nation’s highest average rates: pay-as-you-drive.

For the first time, a New Jersey auto insurance company wants to equip… Continue reading

The Home Office’s Border and Immigration Agency has confirmed that it is considering forcing airport operators to introduce the measures to increase security.

It is concerned that so-called ‘common departure lounges’ could allow an… Continue reading

A quarter of all parents are being taxed on their children’s school uniform due to soaring levels of obesity, new figures show. 

Under the current law, VAT is not charged on clothing designed for those… Continue reading

NEW YORK (AP) — Coming to a store near you: Even higher prices. Most inflation this year has come from food and fuel, as retailers resisted passing along to strapped consumers the higher prices manufacturers… Continue reading

He is teaming up with the fascist Bloomberg to stop people from smoking “around the globe.” This is no private initiative. Bloomberg, as mayor of New York, is well-positioned to use government to make… Continue reading

A father-of-three drowned in front of his family after ignoring warnings not to swim in treacherous seas at a British holiday resort.

The 42-year-old holidaymaker and his son went for a dip in Teignmouth, Devon… Continue reading

A former police sergeant who ‘fell in love’ with a 14-year-old schoolgirl has been jailed for 12 months.

Besotted Dominic Liversedge, 27, admitted kissing the youngster and touching her breasts.

He befriended the girl’s… Continue reading

Russia is said to be considering the use of bases in Cuba as a refuelling point for its nuclear bombers, in a move reminiscent of the 1962 missile crisis.

The move would be in… Continue reading