In a nation where 87,897,000 are no longer in the labor force, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday that just 80,000 jobs were added in June, a figure that fell short of the already low estimate of 100,000
The violently brutal drug war in Mexico has killed more than 55,000 people during Felipe Calderon’s presidency, according to Reuters, and that is the what newly-elected Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto will inherit when he is sworn in in December.
Alec Baldwin has hurled anti-gay slurs, violently confronted cameramen, mocked Andrew Breitbart’s death, and called his little daughter a “thoughtless little pig.” But he is still seriously considering running for mayor of New York City. His brother, Billy Baldwin, said
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – Actor Andy Griffith, beloved as a small-town sheriff on the popular television program “The Andy Griffith Show,” died of a heart attack, according to his death certificate. Griffith, 86, died on Tuesday at his home
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pop star Rihanna has sued her former accountants for mismanaging the singer’s finances, including claiming they earned huge commissions from concert tours that resulted in her losing millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank cut interest rates for the second time in two months on Thursday in the latest attempt to bolster slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has threatened to destroy U.S. military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes of being attacked, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, as Revolutionary Guards extended test-firing of ballistic missiles into a third day.
Happy Independence Day: now surrender your plastic bags. That was the message municipal regulators in the largest city in the Pacific Northwest delivered this week when they enacted a controversial ban on plastic bags. The irony of the nanny state
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – He is the face of Hollywood’s two costliest U.S. box office flops in 2012, so far, “John Carter” and “Battleship,” but actor Taylor Kitsch isn’t letting that stand in his way in his quest for good
The average citizen of the US is now familiar with the Solyndra debacle and how the US Department of Energy blew approximately half a billion dollars on the idea to produce photovoltaic cells (PV) using a chemistry of Copper, Indium,
DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – A bomb in a small truck exploded in a market in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya on Tuesday, killing 40 people, and a bomb blast killed four more near the city of Kerbala, police and officials
Last Wednesday, together with True the Vote, Judicial Watch filed a Motion for Intervention to defend the State of Florida’s efforts to clean up voter registration lists against an Obama administration lawsuit. (True the Vote is a grassroots election integrity
In an attempt to hurt presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Reuters wrote a story about a resignation ceremony in which approximately 150 Mormons signed a “Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.” The signatories expressed that they could not tolerate where the church
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Voter support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul rose after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it but most people still oppose the law, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Sunday. The online survey showed increased backing from
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Kansai Electric Power Co on Sunday restarted the 1,180-megawatt No. 3 unit at its Ohi atomic plant, the utility said, Japan’s first nuclear reactor to come back online since the Fukushima crisis, despite public safety concerns.
Even as unemployment among college graduates remains stuck above the national average at 9.3 percent, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of four-year college graduates finds that President Barack Obama leads his Republican challenger Mitt Romney 52 percent to 27 percent. The poll’s
News Corp watchers have been talking about a possible split of Rupert Murdoch’s massive entertainment and publishing empire for some time, and it looks like they are finally on the right side of the guesswork, as the News Corp board
The Senate, capitulating to pressure applied by Barack Obama, has settled on a deal on student loans and sent it to the House for approval, where conservative House Republicans have the numbers to tank the proposal. Obama has been courting the youth
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Steve Israel’s message is clear to an increasing number of Democrat candidates who want to win in November: stay away from the Democrat’s national convention. Joe Manchin, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Rep. Nick Rahall
Greece’s new finance minister, Vassilis Rapanos, resigned on Monday due to health problems, according to Reuters. Its new Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, who just took office last Wednesday, is recovering from eye surgery and will miss the European Summit that
Gas prices peaked in early April at just under $4 a gallon. Thatmeant that for a few weeks gas prices were a major political issue. A series of adsattacking the President were issued and Newt Gingrich announced aproposal to get
(Reuters) – Lawyers for Jerry Sandusky sought a mistrial before his conviction for child sex abuse on the grounds that prosecutors showed jurors an inaccurate version of a bombshell NBC News interview with the former football coach, and the mistake
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Jerry Sandusky trial was loaded with details of the child sex abuse a jury has now convicted the one-time Penn State assistant football coach of carrying out over 15 years, but it revealed little about
President Barack Obama’s controversial decision last week not toenforce illegal immigration laws that apply to 800,000 illegal aliensappears to have boosted his already sizable lead among Latino voters inkey battleground states, according to a new poll by Latino Decisions andAmerica’s
