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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:50 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 21 km (12.5 miles) South...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 371.2 km ( 230.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:28:52 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 243 km (151 miles) West of
Nuku'Alofa...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 9.5 km ( 5.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:44:27 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 120 km (75 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuat...
America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The ag...
The Nato-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan has switched approach in training Afghan forces, a US major general said, in the face of escalating violence and a looming 2014 deadline to hand over security ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $112 million in tax money to farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to restore the habitat of the Sage Grouse, a bird that has not been listed as either thre...
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A Daytona Beach mother was arrested and charged with child neglect after police say she left 5-year-old child who was in her care in a stroller outside a bar while she was inside the bar drinking It ...
Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of life-threatening illnesses, including ba...
General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs...
The euro rebounded on Friday as an early sell-off lost steam on central bank demand and technical buying, although the currency was vulnerable due to fears about euro-zone banks and a gloomy global outlook...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he and Gov. Pat Quinn should be able to work out their differences over legislation that would clear the way for a casino in Chicago, among other places. As WBBM Newsradio Politic...
Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits. In October, the city propo...
With the economy in turmoil, the national debt rising and millions of American families struggling to make ends meet, Barack Obama yesterday decided to practise his golf swing. Teeing off his holiday, Mr...
Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded Venezuela's credit ratings as it implemented a new methodology more heavily focused on political risk—a key weakness in the oil-producing country. S&P cut Venezuela...
Tanks rumbled into the central city of Homs at dawn Saturday, a day after security forces killed at least 34 anti-regime protesters across Syria, adding urgency to a UN mission expected this weekend. "Se...
Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year grip on power in Libya looked more precarious than ever on Friday night, as rebel forces advanced on the capital from three directions after breaking out of the once-besieged town...
Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal a...
Seventy-year-old Sharon Bullington may lose her home because she paid her mortgage a week early. That may not make much sense to the thousands of homeowners who are behind on their mortgages in Florida. ...
New CCTV of the riots in Birmingham shows police officers being shot at, the West Midlands force has said. The footage, which has been released by the police to encourage members of the public to come fo...
Armed with cellphones and connected through Facebook, bands of young people have been rushing into stores to steal goods or assaulting bystanders in a spate of recent "flash mob" incidents across the US...
The Aftershock Survival Summit is a gripping, no-nonsense presentation that’s quickly becoming a financial beacon in an economic tsunami. Featuring an exclusive interview with famed economist and best-sel...
Bank of America (BAC) is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times report, citing people fam...
The two U.S. hikers detained for two grueling years in Iran on spying charges have been sentenced to eight years in prison, state-run TV reported Saturday. Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer each received fi...
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 40.9 km ( 25.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:11:35 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (25.4 miles) Southwest of Port-Vila, Efat...
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 37.3 km ( 23.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:07 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanua...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 227.9 km ( 141.6 miles), the quake hit at 17:08:36 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 252 km (157 miles) SSW o...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 16:55:02 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu ...
Police have released dramatic video of yobs shooting at unarmed police on the ground and in a hovering helicopter during the height of the riots. An attempted murder investigation has been launched after 1...
Air travel, overfishing and global warming are all seen as contributing to the uptick in shark attacks.
Yesterday, we learned that Al Gore's extraterrestrial environmentalist pals are preparing a friendly but lethal attack against the Earth in which they will annihilate us. Some heretics have expressed ...
International Big Business, the Oil Industry, serial polluters... they've been trying to end Bernie Sanders' political career for many years. But, until now, weak, lax campaign rules have held them back,...
An Australian chemical company admitted Saturday that one of its sites had leaked toxic compounds for the second time in two weeks. Orica said that effluent containing higher than allowable levels of arsen...
Nasa funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. It is hoped that the map will be extremely useful for tracking future sea-level increases...
*Karl Marx was right that globalization, financial intermediation, and income redistribution could lead capitalism to self-destruct.* [image: 'To Let' and 'For Rent' signs, like this one at the Dubai Mar...
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il arrived in Russia on Saturday to meet with President Dmitry Medvedev, authorities said. Kim is scheduled to visit Siberia and the country's eastern region, according to a...
Russia opposes U.S. and European leaders' calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, Interfax news agency reported Friday, saying that the leader should get more time to implement reforms. The...
A brush fire threatened dozens of homes and destroyed several buildings in Round Mountain. No homes were lost, although several were threatened. The Texas Forest Service reported Friday night that the fire...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 4.9 km ( 3 miles), the quake hit at 14:12:02 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 124 km (77 miles) Eas...
The aircraft crashed in an open area just outside the village of Throop, near to Bournemouth Airport after the elite RAF stunt team had completed a display over the sea front as part of the annual air show...
A woman and her two children were killed and an elderly woman is missing after torrential rain saw a main road flooded with up to nine feet of water in rush hour. Kimberly Griffith, 45, and her daughters...
A brush fire threatened dozens of homes and destroyed several buildings in Round Mountain. No homes were lost, although several were threatened. The Texas Forest Service reported Friday night that t...
Firefighters will continue work today to douse a 60-acre blaze that blackened the foothills north of the Air Force Academy on Friday afternoon, sending plumes of smoke into the air that could be seen for m...
A small amount of radioactive cesium has been detected in rice, the staple food item in Japan, that was grown in the city of Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, some 150 kilometers southwest of the crisis-hit Fuku...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Kanchatka, Russia at a depth of 64.9 km ( 40.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:54:15 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 85 km (53 mil...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the State of Yap, Fed. States of Micronesia at a depth of 41.8 km ( 26 miles), the quake hit at 11:17:18 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 407 km (252 ...
A Dutch artist creates nearly bulletproof human skin by sandwiching spider silk between the epidermis and dermis.
I guess people who are looking for another blustering nincompoop and tool who thinks you can make up for profound ignorance with a Texas-sized swagger, won't have to scratch beneath the surface to look f...
*** Rick Perry is seen as being anti-Gay, pro-Israel, and pro-Pentagon. * His economic record as Governor of Texas is controversial (Rick Perry: Reading the record The Economist) His problem is allegati...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 2.6 km ( 1.6 miles), the quake hit at 10:27:16 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 736 km (457 miles) Northwest of Nuku'Alof...
German liberal news rag, Der Spiegel, takes pride in being above gutter politics. Of course, that pride isn't earned as it peddles its brand of liberalism in a more subtle manner than its British counterp...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 611.1 km ( 379.7 miles), the quake hit at 10:08:18 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) West of Ndoi Island,...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 35.1 km ( 21.8 miles), the quake hit at 09:50:18 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 93 km (57 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanua...
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Eritea at a depth of 9.9 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:38:35 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 105 km ( 65 miles) West Al Huda...
A B-BBC contributor notes; "One might remember all the fake outrage concerning David Starkey's comments concerning language, appearance and employability? Oh what a fuss that stirred up. I wonder if this p...
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Bosnia and Herzegovina at a depth of just 2 km ( 1.6 miles), the quake hit at 09:07:48 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 2 km ( 1.6 miles) South of Koc...
A Nixa sinkhole that swallowed part of a house five years ago is causing concern for one neighbor, but the city says it shouldn't be. In 2006, a giant sinkhole opened up in Nixa, swallowing part of a ho...
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has issued a warning advising people to avoid drinking water from or swimming in two areas of Dworshak Reservoir where high levels of blue-green algae have bee...
Russia has lost track of a newly-launched, multi-million-pound telecommunications satellite, the latest in a series of setbacks that have dogged its space industry. The £160million Express AM-4 satellite,...
A UFO has been filmed speeding across the sky over a motorway - close to where a BBC reporter spotted another mystery object just days later. The clear footage shows a white ball of light darting through t...
Britain faces a £50billion bill under plans for a new tax raid by Brussels, according to a report. That is the price the UK might have to pay if the European Union imposes a financial transaction tax dem...
[image: Libyan rebels] Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi's troops all along the country's Mediterranean coast said they have captured all of the planned eastern port city of Brega, which has repeated...
A health advisory prompted by high algae levels found in Dexter Reservoir, located 22 miles southeast of Eugene, was issued today by Oregon Health Authority's Public Health Division and Lane County Health ...
Wisconsin Division of Emergency Management officials say an apparent tornado has hit Marinette County causing at least one death. Division spokeswoman Lori Getter says local officials have determined one ...
An achingly beautiful arc of powder-white sand framed by giant boulders and luxuriant palm fronds, Anse Lazio beach graces the cover of upmarket travel brochures, attracting affluent holidaymakers to the S...
Insurance adjusters and auto body shops in southwest Iowa are busy today after last night’s hailstorm. Hailstones as large as baseballs shattered windshields and dimpled hoods, trunks and roofs. Jim Cham...
A massive algae bloom is sitting off the coast of New Jersey and isn’t expected to move off any time soon. The bloom, which is not considered harmful, was first detected by satellites in mid-July but has...
A team of firemen, who were left coated in thousands of fleas when they went to an abandoned house, had to be tested for plague. The crew from Connecticut were conducting a routine safety check at an aban...
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck offshore Bio-Bio, Chile at a depth of 14.1 km ( 8.8 miles), the quake hit at 07:30:34 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 34 km ( 21 miles) West Concepc...
A flash mob of looters has robbed a convenience store in Washington, DC as the trend continues to spread across the U.S. Surveillance video shows women storming into a local Shop Express at approximat...
The U.S. has already been hit by more natural disasters in 2011 than any previous year - and that is before the hurricane season has even started. Flooding, blizzards, drought and tornadoes from just nine ...
A father who abducted his two-year-old child had turned the gun on himself after killing his daughter, it has been revealed. Mourad 'Moni' Samaan and toddler Madeline Layla Samaan-Fay were found dead on S...
The mystery of the floating orange goo has been solved. (NOTE: they said this before when they said the orange stuff where microscopic eggs) But the results have only served to increase the fears of the s...
At the beginning of the year, I was kind of amazed by the quality of Physics Stack Exchange. There were actual experts over there and meritocracy mostly worked worked. So I have also answered 661 questions...
*ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR?: Brzezinski's Brass Knuckles – Murdoch's Pretty Piefaced – Norway’s Puzzle Pieces.** * ** *~~*
Just three weeks after Nasa's 30-year shuttle programme finally came to an end, it looks like the space race might already be back on. Russia is teaming up with the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch th...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, in conjunction with the Kansas State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, confirms that toxic blue-green algae is responsible for the death of one d...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the unit 1 reactor at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga automatically tripped. The commission said the incident late Thursday night was traced to a coolant pu...
A woman has been arrested after she staged photos of her abusing her one-month-old son because she wanted his father to think she was about to kill him, police have said. Brittany Lester, 20, took photos...
The three men accused of the brutal 1993 murder of three eight-year-old Cub Scouts in Arkansas were freed today, after a complicated legal manoeuvre that allowed them to maintain their innocence while ackn...
A Nasa spacecraft far from Earth has watched a solar storm engulf our planet for the first time. STEREO-A was more than 65million miles from our planet, giving it a 'big picture' view other spacecraft orb...
Five people were taken to a Charlotte hospital Thursday night after complaining about fumes on board a US Airways flight. Flight 1489 from New York declared an emergency before landing safely at Charl...
The Unit 2 reactor at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania shut down automatically at 10:46 a.m. Friday (8/19). The unit was operating at full power at the time. The shutdown ...
This is the first picture of the 15-year-old British schoolboy who was murdered in a Spanish seaside resort. Andrew Milroy, 15, died after being stabbed in Lloret de Mar, on the Costa Brava, last month. ...
Victim: Stephen Rutter was killed by drink-driver Nicola Elgie, who claimed she could not see the road properly. A drink-driver who knocked down and killed a pedestrian on a crossing because her windscre...
Two men were drugged, beaten, branded with hot knives and left for dead after they were set upon by a pair of drug-fuelled thugs who filmed the sadistic beating for ‘a laugh’. And today Steven Shevill was...
A Scotland Yard detective investigating phone hacking has been arrested on suspicion of leaking stories to The Guardian. The move came as News of the World reporter Dan Evans, 35, was also arrested over ...
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kyrgyzstan at a depth of 23.4 km ( 14.5 miles), the quake hit at 05:31:22 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) SSW of Taraz (Dzhambul), Ka...
A former policeman drove his car off a 350ft cliff at high speed in a suicide pact with his estranged wife, it emerged yesterday. Father-of-four Paul Charles and wife Jacqueline were killed instantly when ...
A suspected gunman who had been on the run after allegedly bursting into a hairdressers and shooting three women has been found dead in woodland. Police had launched a huge manhunt after the incident in a...
Confronted by an unidentified speedboat powering straight towards them, this is the dramatic moment the crew of a Royal Navy warship fear they are under attack from Iranian suicide bombers. Sailors on HM...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 8.5 km ( 5.3 miles), the quake hit at 02:00:23 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 30 km (18 miles) South of Patrai, Greece ...
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 34.2 km ( 21.3 miles), the quake hit at 01:25:03 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 159 km (98 miles) South of Nuku'Alofa,...
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:49:12 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) Southwe...
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck North of Halmahera, Indonesia at a depth of 34.8 km ( miles), the quake hit at 23:14:12 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 344 km (213 miles) NNE of Ternat...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 85.8 km ( 53.3 miles), the quake hit at 22:04:12 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 96 km (59 miles) Southwest of Kuril'sk,...
*Ettore Bastianini as Gérard at the Met in 1955 --* *we're going to hear him in a moment in the opening scene of Andrea Chénier, and then again Sunday in Act III.* *by Ken* As I've explained in our two...
A tropical storm formed in the Caribbean Friday and is expected to move across the coast of Belize Saturday afternoon or night. Tropical Storm Harvey has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, with higher gu...
Rebels closed in on Moammar Gadhafi Friday, pushing back his fighters in a fierce battle in one key coastal city and seizing another town as they advanced toward his remaining bastion, the capital of Tripo...
A long-awaited Alberta Health study into the health of people living downstream from the oilsands, where cancer rates are higher than normal, appears to be finally going ahead. Concerns were first raised...
European leaders are under intense pressure to come up with a long-term solution to the debt problems straining the European Union to its breaking point. But given the enormous challenges involved and th...
Indian activist Anna Hazare began a public hunger strike in the country's capital Friday, accompanied by thousands of cheering supporters. The 74-year-old campaigner, who is seeking stronger anti-corrupti...
In a move that could portend an increase in violence between Israelis and Palestinians, the Hamas military wing announced it was ending a de facto two-year truce with Israel early Saturday. A statemen...
Levees.org got a dress rehearsal
*Saman Mohammadi* *The Excavator* *August 19, 2011* We live in an era of medieval brutality and state terror. Iran, Syria, Libya, Iraq, China and Putin's Russia are singled out by the Western media and We...
*This memorial service for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami was held on July 24 in Ohkuma-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, 20 kilometers from the Daiichi nuclear plant that melted down.* *by Ken*...
Koyu Abe, a Zen priest of Joenji temple, poses among a field of sunflowers which his volunteer group "Make A Wish Upon Flowers" had planted in Fukushima, northern Japan August 7, 2011. At the temple thousa...
Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica. Built from images acquired by radar satellites, the visualisation details all the great glaciers a...
President Obama begins his 10-day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard today, the third year in a row he has taken his summer holiday in one of America’s most expensive resorts. During his time there he will be e...
Across the globe, plants and animals are creeping, crawling, slithering and winging to higher altitudes and latitudes as temperatures climb. Moreover, the greater the warming in any given region, the fart...
Paper money from countries all around the world carry a chemical hitchhiker – the hormone-active substance known as bisphenol A (BPA). Paper bills are the latest addition to a growing list of items tainted...
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory are investigating whether microwaves can be used to kill insects and other pests, such as slugs and snails, instead of chemical pesticides. The right wave ...
U.S. solar company Evergreen Solar Inc filed for bankruptcy on Monday, its once cutting-edge technology falling victim to competition from cheaper Chinese rivals and solar subsidy cuts in Europe. The Cha...
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been proven. "I think we're seein...
A Florida biologist has linked a vicious coral-killing pathogen in the Caribbean and Florida Keys to human sewage that leaks into the ocean from improperly treated wastewater. The Caribbean Elkhorn coral...
A family doctor who gave a terminally ill man a fatal overdose of painkillers avoided being struck off after a disciplinary panel ruled he may have accidentally killed him due to him being “too devoted” to...
Foreigners who took part in last week's rioting will be deported to "send a tough message to troublemakers," it has emerged. More than 150 people born abroad have been arrested over the looting and arson...
A "distinguished" aristocrat is "to all intents and purposes down and out" and needs to raise money or "go hungry", a High Court judge has heard. The Earl of Cardigan - David Brudenell-Bruce, 58 - had "no...
There‘s some curious merchandise for sale in CBS News’ online store.* Alongside a travel mug, tote bag and T-shirt that all bear the CBS News logo, the store also includes the following: “Dreams From My...
A number of students showed up for the first day of school at Naperville North High School Wednesday appearing to be intoxicated. Some of the students have already been suspended while others are still b...
A Salisbury woman has been arrested twice in three hours on drunken driving charges, and police say she had her 4-year-old daughter with her the second time. An officer stopped Ann Marie Abdullin on Rout...
Vietnam's prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children and sickening more than 32,000 people nationwide so far this yea...
(Source, with more charts)
This week in Germantown, Maryland, it took less than a minute for a flash mob of teenagers to descend on a 7-Eleven, ransack shelves and make off with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. It's going to...
A man herding reindeer in Russia's Arctic found the perfectly-preserved, 40,000-year-old body of a baby woolly mammoth. The creature's carcass was sticking up out of the permafrost, local officials said....
For the second time in a week, a flash mob robbed a convenience store in our area. Could it be a new trend in the Washington region? In the latest incident, 10 women stormed the Shop Express convenienc...
A diamond seller from Israel had over $2 million worth of diamonds taken from him in a smash-and-grab heist in North Hollywood. At 10:10 p.m., Thursday, the victim was visiting a friend in North Hollywoo...
Obese model Susanne Eman is saying 'Supersize Me' for real - in her bid to become the fattest woman ever. The 52-stone bombshell aims to reach a whopping 115 stone, or 1,600lb, by guzzling at least 20,00...
A local school district is offering take home drug tests to parents. The test kids will be available to parents of middle school students in the Hempfield School District. “We would rather be proacti...
Stores are trying everything they can think of to disguise the fact that you're going to pay more for clothes this fall. Some are using less fabric and calling it the new look. Others are adding cheap st...
"Records show errors by Bay of Pigs unit" August 16, 2011|Associated Press MIAMI - Newly declassified US documents show a *CIA operative* accidentally * fired on friendly pilots *during the 1961 Bay of Pig...
"Several hundred Birmingham residents *rallied for peace and racial unity*yesterday.... * * *And that is about all the coverage they got from the Globe.* --more--" * * *Also see*: * * *London Bridge is...
Red Cross says attacks on medical workers are rising Conn. Red Cross workers authorize strike
(With an apology to pinball machines everywhere.) That @cityslikr fella can be wonderfully succinct sometimes. I retweeted this earlier, but it deserves a whole blog post. Word. If you're ever curious ab...
On occasion I sit here, unfocused. There is just so much ongoing, it seems a bit overwhelming. I think yesterday's post on the Pentagon's attack plans for China have caused me some consternation. Or Conce...
The prevailing theory was that the thief was part of a large art theft ring, but new details paint a different picture.
*It was sort of a test, and they failed*: "Record numbers of homeless people in Portland, ME (NECN: Amy Sinclair, Portland, ME) - More families than ever are struggling to get by. Shelter workers in *Mai...
Darrell Issa is the wealthiest and most personally corrupt member of the House of Representatives. So *of course* Boehner gave him the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee....
Where we see miracles is half the fun in life.
It’s just a happy coincidence of timing that the 88th edition of ACOTW would dovetail at exactly the same time that the fascist Republican Party (5) would be taking the President to task for taking a muc...
Officials at the Indiana State Fair warned audiences to seek shelter, but few did.
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 311.6 km ( 193.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:10:11 UTC Friday 19th August 2011. The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) Northeast of W...
In the 2006 federal election, Tony Clement won his won his Parry Sound-Muskoka riding by a mere 28 votes. In 2008, following election endorsements from local mayors on his G8 slush fund tailgate committ...
A sudden and brief storm abruptly ended a music festival in Belgium last night. Here is how the tragedy occurred, according to the UK Guardian: *"Five people have been killed and more than 70 injured afte...
At least 150 foreign rioters and looters who caused chaos on the streets will be deported as part of a Government pledge to get tough on troublemakers. Those involved will be thrown out of Britain ‘at th...
Police are hunting for a gunman who burst into a hairdressers and shot three women. Officers were called to Carol Ann's Hairstylists in Malpas Road, Newport, South Wales at 2.20pm and found one woman had ...
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*** Jewish children, the victims of medical experiments in Auschwitz * We like Jews. And we like Blacks, Moslems, Gays, Catholics and the handicapped. We are ashamed of our past prejudices against such...
For over 100 years the Turrialba was dormant, but now is visited weekly by experts who are tracking its changes. Recently, experts have been investigating new holes in the craters, where the temperature...
A flashflood hit a village in Polomolok, South Cotabato yesterday afternoon, leaving 45 families homeless. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Purok Riverside, Silwa...
Heavy rain that started in the early hours of Friday triggered floods in the Black Sea province of Ordu, daily Hürriyet reported on its website. Ordu Gov. Orha Düzgün said 90 kilograms of rain fell per squ...
A forest fire stretching 8 km (5 miles) at its widest point has forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the eastern Spanish region of Murcia. A forest fire stretching 8 km (5 miles) at its wide...
Thousands of unemployed waited overnight, camping out in their business suits and office heels and braving the tormenting heat in Atlanta to stand in line for a job fair Thursday. Authorities treated 20 pe...
At the request of tea party leaders in Arizona, famed Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has promised to investigate the validity of Barack Obama's purported long-form birth certificate in a determination ...
Bowing to pressure from immigrant rights activists, the Obama administration said Thursday that it will halt deportation proceedings on a case-by-case basis against illegal immigrants who meet certain crit...
“Injustice anywhere, threatens Justice everywhere” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At the True Democracy Party we are backing Major Police and Prison Reforms at State and Federal Levels. Police and their ...
Americans are deeply confused about why the economy is so bad – and their President isn’t telling them. In fact, the White House apparently has decided to join with Republicans and blame it on the long-...
Pope Benedict XVI lamented modern society's "amnesia" about God as he travelled Friday to a famed Spanish monastery on the second day of his four-day visit for the Roman Catholic Church's world youth festi...
Strip searches conducted by Toronto police on suspects are often done arbitrarily and without cause, critics say, but the union representing officers insists the practice is carried out under strict contro...
Global stocks slid again Friday as fears of a possible U.S. recession combined with ongoing worries over Europe's debt crisis, which is stoking acute fears over the continent's banking sector. European b...
The percentage of children diagnosed with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder or ADHD in the U.S. has increased in the past decade, according to a new report. The percentage of children who had ever...
Gunmen have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least nine people and taking over the compound for hours. A suicide car bomb destroyed the compound wall and a numbe...
The US Office of Naval Research says that it has successfully tested a new type of explosive material that can dramatically increase weapons' impacts. Missiles made from the high density substance can exp...
At least four people are reported to have been killed and dozens injured in Syria as army and police opened fire on anti-government protesters. Rights activists reported gunfire in parts of southern Deraa...
At least 39 people have been killed in two days of political and gang violence in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi. Following Wednesday's killing of 13 people including ex-MP Waja Karim Dad, violence ...
The morning newspaper placed outside of your hotel room door may become an anachronism. And that may not be such a bad thing. As travellers increasingly kick the paper aside in favour of getting a digita...
As we watch U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hold talks with his Chinese hosts this week, it is apt to look back at the precarious state of China-U.S. relations four decades ago and how far they have come ...
I remember sitting down in front of my rich dad to show him the financials for my nylon and Velcro wallet business. I was 32 years old and the business had taken off quicker than I'd ever imagined. I had m...
Thirty-four people were killed and 100 wounded in a blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan's Khyber Agency, a government official said. The mosque had about 300 people when the blast went...
A goodwill basketball game between a university team from the United States and a local Chinese team in Beijing turned into an ugly brawl Thursday, leaving sports diplomacy with a black-eye. With the ...
The Israeli military bombed sites in Gaza and militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel on Friday as tensions remained high a day after one of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis in recent years...
Russia opposes U.S. and European leaders' calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, Interfax news agency reported Friday, saying that the leader should get more time to implement reforms. The...
One elephant displayed improved problem solving skills when tests did not rely on him using a tool in his trunk.
A quite remarkable tale of* BBC a*nd *Guardian* duplicity uncovered byAutonomous Mind. To set the scene; "It has felt like ploughing a lonely furrow, using this blog and Twitter to try to make people sit...
Lockheed Martin represents the bleeding edge of American military airpower. Lockheed produced the F-22 Raptor stealth super fighter and is struggling to churn out the F-35 Lightning II stealth bomb wagon...
It’s the sort of news that would make greedy Bond villain Blofeld sit up – Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez wants the 211 tonnes of gold he’s storing overseas, much of it in Britain, shipped back to Caraca...
A teenage 2012 Olympic Games ambassador has appeared in court today charged with a going on the rampage for a second night during the London riots. Chelsea Ives, 18, had already been remanded in custody a...
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Late yesterday we stuck the above video onto the bottom of a post. If you already watched it, you don't have to do so again... although I hope you got all the way to the end, where they explain how simi...
Lurking some 11.5 billion light years from Earth is a ginormous cloud of hot glowing gas -- what's making it glow?
The ultimate flight and combat simulation control looks and feels like the real thing.
Not only is it bad for women, it's bad for the qualities that make the Internet useful.
Stylishly immerse yourself in audio from all your devices.
Developers of a sarcasm font called Sartalics think releasing thousands of identical tweets can jumpstart a trend.
Street View teams will mount camera-trikes to boats and also pedal through river communities.
Farmers burn genetically modified crops in India. *Media complicit in crimes against humanity* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com The media is pimping for the oil and gas ...
Two women from Northern Ireland have been murdered in a forest in Turkey. A 17-year-old Turkish teenager, named locally as Recep Celik, is said to have carried out the attack near Izmir after a row over ma...
Violence Spikes in Iraq as U.S. Considers Ways to Extend Occupation Past December Deadline
The 18-pound lobster could be as old as 75 years old.
Google Chromebook makes for a fascinating concept but often yields frustrating computing.
[image: Drought across the United States, July 2011. More of the United States was in exceptional drought in July 2011 than in any other month in the past 12 years, according to the National Climatic Dat...
[image: An Ethiopan boy works a field of crops that's been withered by the 2011 drought, 21 July 2011. USAID / wikipedia.org] By Joe DeCapua 17 August 2011 Experts say there was plenty of warning that t...
The dust may only have just settled on the last freak weather phenomenon to hit Arizona. But yesterday a third giant dust cloud in less than two months rolled over Phoenix, causing widespread disruption....
The drought continues in the State of Texas and Brazoria County is under a Heat Advisory. Currently, 90 degree temperatures are a thing of the past and an 85 degree day seems almost like a cold front. Th...
The Environment Agency (E.A.) and local angling groups suspect poachers may be responsible for the death of around 1,500 fish on a stretch of the River Lark near Mildenhall, Suffolk. Distressed and dead ...
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 17:13:50 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 21 km (12.5 miles) South...
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 371.2 km ( 230.7 miles), the quake hit at 17:28:52 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 243 km (151 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa...
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 9.5 km ( 5.9 miles), the quake hit at 17:44:27 UTC Saturday 20th August 2011. The epicenter was 120 km (75 miles) SSW of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuat...
The Nato-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan has switched approach in training Afghan forces, a US major general said, in the face of escalating violence and a looming 2014 deadline to hand over security ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is paying $112 million in tax money to farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to restore the habitat of the Sage Grouse, a bird that has not been listed as either thre...
Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of life-threatening illnesses, including ba...
General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs...
The euro rebounded on Friday as an early sell-off lost steam on central bank demand and technical buying, although the currency was vulnerable due to fears about euro-zone banks and a gloomy global outlook...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he and Gov. Pat Quinn should be able to work out their differences over legislation that would clear the way for a casino in Chicago, among other places. As WBBM Newsradio Politic...
Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with their benefits. In October, the city propo...
With the economy in turmoil, the national debt rising and millions of American families struggling to make ends meet, Barack Obama yesterday decided to practise his golf swing. Teeing off his holiday, Mr...
Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded Venezuela's credit ratings as it implemented a new methodology more heavily focused on political risk—a key weakness in the oil-producing country. S&P cut Venezuela...
Tanks rumbled into the central city of Homs at dawn Saturday, a day after security forces killed at least 34 anti-regime protesters across Syria, adding urgency to a UN mission expected this weekend. "Se...
Muammar Gaddafi's 41-year grip on power in Libya looked more precarious than ever on Friday night, as rebel forces advanced on the capital from three directions after breaking out of the once-besieged town...
Over the next 18 months, the Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a flurry of new rules to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants. Mercury, smog, ozone, greenhouse gases, water intake, coal a...
Seventy-year-old Sharon Bullington may lose her home because she paid her mortgage a week early. That may not make much sense to the thousands of homeowners who are behind on their mortgages in Florida. ...
posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA Nasa spacecraft far from Earth has watched a solar storm engulf our planet for the first time. STEREO-A was more than 65million miles from our planet, giving it a 'big picture' view other spacecraft orb...
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