The Florida man who flew a gyrocopter to the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. could face up to nine and a half years in prison after being indicted by a federal jury on Wednesday.
The ACLU and the Tea Party Patriots are uniting, at least on this one topic, by teaming up on a new video ad criticizing The Patriot Act.
Allegations of the mistreatment of women’s basketball players have been filed against both the University of Illinois Illini basketball program and coaches Matt Bollant and Mike Divilbiss.
A survey finds that K-12 teachers feel that family stress and poverty are the top two hurdles students face in getting an education in America today. Psychological problems come in third as a barrier for education.
Researchers are discovering that free WiFi networks are so easy to breach that anyone using one is leaving their computer and other electronic devices open to hacking.
In a speech in South Korea, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the Internet needs heavier regulations to “be able to flourish and work properly.”
On Monday, President Obama debuted (again) on Twitter, starting a new account with a banner photo featuring the POTUS, First Lady Michelle, the couple’s two lovely daughters, and… Al Sharpton. Cropped out of the photo were Laura and George W. Bush.
A professor from Duke University is defiant in the face of charges of racism saying that the country needs a more honest discussion about racism.
On Monday CNN’s star talent, Anderson Cooper, was taken in by fake quotes attributed to him on the Internet parody site ClickHole, a spoof of BuzzFeed.
Extreme athlete Dean Potter was one of two to die in a failed BASE jump on Sunday in Yosemite National Park, authorities report.
One of the first weekends with nice weather in months brought violence with it as the toll of wounded in Chicago climbed to over 40 people.
To satisfy federal disclosure laws, the President and First Lady reported their net worth last week — revealing that they are worth almost $7 million.
A review of donations to the Clinton Foundation reveals that big labor unions such as the AFL-CIO, teachers unions, and state and county workers unions gave millions of their members’ dues money to the Clintons.
A group of Asian-Americans have filed a complaint against Harvard saying that the school engaged in “systemic and continuous discrimination” against Asians with its admissions policy.
A Wisconsin woman traveling on a Southwest Airlines flight to Milwaukee says that flight attendants forced her to turn her phone off and wouldn’t let her try to stop her husband who was threatening suicide just as the plane was about to take off.
A new website that purports to chronicle how every team in the NFL cheats promises to “spread the truth” about how often professional football teams bend, break, and shatter the rules.
Many raised questions on Wednesday, asking why the new speed reduction system wasn’t installed to help stop the speeding Amtrak train derailment that killed 8 on Tuesday. But now reports reveal that the new system actually had been installed, but was never turned on.
On Thursday, House Democrats called Republicans “xenophobic” for opposing an amendment that would allow illegal aliens to serve in America’s armed forces.
An Amtrak train car caught fire in Milwaukee Thursday afternoon, sending passengers scrambling and bringing firefighters to bear.
The engineer who was piloting the Amtrak train that derailed Tuesday evening, causing eight fatalities so far, is claiming that he has “no memory” of the accident and “no explanation” for why it occurred.
The Pac-12 Conference has announced what it is calling a “historic” deal with the online e-commerce company Alibaba to take the Washington Huskies and Texas Longhorns to play the first ever conference game in China.
Jeb Bush is still one of the main GOP candidates who hasn’t officially announced he is running for the GOP nomination for president, but in an interview on Wednesday, he accidentally said, “I’m running,” before backtracking to say, “if I run.”
Martin O’Malley, a likely Democrat primary opponent for Hillary Clinton, is saying that America’s city residents have become worse off during the entirety of Obama’s years in the White House. During a campaign trip through New Hampshire, O’Malley, a former
As the nation comes to grips with Tuesday evening’s Amtrak accident that took the lives of seven passengers, government sources reveal that rail accidents and derailments have increased over the last few years, with Amtrak’s rates higher than the rest.
After several bad seasons, the Philadelphia 76ers hope that a new logo will help revitalize the team.
