The photo below captures everything that Americans wanted to believe about the Iraq war in the earliest days of the invasion in 2003. Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit… Continue reading
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a rape victim’s testimony in a court about the crime needs no corroboration to convict the accused.
A bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice P… Continue reading
A £500,000 biometric fingerprint entry security system is to be installed at the Busy Bees children’s nurseries chain.
The system from UK Biometrics will allow parents and carers easy access to the nurseries while ensuring unauthorised… Continue reading
BBC
The United Nations is pulling back some non-essential staff deployed in Sudan’s restive Darfur region.
It says the decision comes after recent violence and as a precaution after an international prosecutor accused Sudan’s president of… Continue reading
AUSTIN — The state institutions for people with disabilities are failing to find community-based homes for many patients who want them, and have hired 10 state school employees who should’ve been ineligible because of previous… Continue reading
FRANTIC police smashed a window to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby from a locked vehicle in Queensland last week only to find it was an extremely lifelike doll.
The embarrassing mistake, made in regional… Continue reading
Doctors need to make a living just like everyone else, but there are a number of practices and procedures that are obscenely profitable to perform. So profitable, in fact, that at some… Continue reading
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will suspend its dividend, sell off $4 billion to $7 billion worth of assets and cut 20% worth of salaried cash costs in an overall… Continue reading
A Denton pizza restaurant employee surprised by a robbery says she was even more surprised by who the robbers were.
As Stephanie Martinez was getting money out of a cash drawer, another… Continue reading
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — In what seems to be a perverse reaction to high gas prices, some cities are cutting back on public transit - at a time when their citizens need… Continue reading
The Guardian
Having the TV on in the background reduces the quality and quantity of play in young children and may slow their development, according to researchers who studied children playing with and without background… Continue reading
A Twinsburg K-9 officer was shot four times in the head during a traffic stop on Sunday.
A preliminary autopsy was done Monday on Officer Joshua Miktarian, 33. He had pulled a car over… Continue reading
Scientific American
Beginning next month, consumers will be able to check an online list of stores that sold or stocked recalled meat. U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA secretary Ed Shafer said the move is designed… Continue reading
It seems that a unique moment in human history is at last coming to an end. Just a few short years ago, anyone who dared talk about the Council on Foreign Relations, the… Continue reading
GULFPORT — A federal appeals court says it will not hold a former Gulf Coast sheriff liable for an honest mistake in destroying plants that resembled marijuana but were found to be deer bait.
The 5th… Continue reading
LAKE COUNTY – In only the first week of summer operations to eradicate illegal marijuana, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and other local and state agencies have seized in the county more than… Continue reading
Whether you love it, hate it, or have never thought about it, chances are some politician wants to ban it. “Welcome to the Nanny State Nation,” says reason.tv host Drew Carey. “Where the… Continue reading
Metro police had banned the use of Tasers for a time, they still used a controversial method to subdue unruly people, according to an I-Team report. Related Links… Continue reading