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May 10, 2010 06:58 AM UTC --
Obama has decided to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court today at 10:00am EST. If confirmed for Justice John Paul Stevens's vacating seat, the court will have more than two . . .
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May 03, 2010 05:53 PM UTC --
A manhole burst in Times Square on Monday, sending flames ten feet into the air. Officials determined that the incident was due to undergrad electric cables, but that didn't stop everyone around . . .
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April 30, 2010 11:34 AM UTC --
Port Authority Chief Chris Ward said at a business breakfast that LaGuardia airport needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch.
The 72 gate airport only serves domestic flights, but this . . .
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April 30, 2010 10:25 AM UTC --
People magazine has released a preview of their famous Most Beautiful People list for 2010. The first face in t
he preview is Julia Roberts, who defies the stereotype that an actress's career . . .
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April 30, 2010 09:43 AM UTC --
The US House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday that allows Puerto Rico the option for statehood.
For 112 years Puerto Rico has been a United States commonwealth. After America . . .
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April 30, 2010 09:23 AM UTC --
In a 31-20 vote yesterday, Hawaii's state legislature passed a bill allowing full civil unions to same-sex couples. The bill will now go to Republican Governor Linda Lingle, who was skirted around whether . . .
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April 29, 2010 10:58 AM UTC --
Do you agree? The list is typical in some places, but surprising in others. Obama only got up to Number 4, despite the fact 2009 was his first year as the western world's first black president. Who beat . . .
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April 29, 2010 10:35 AM UTC --
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who is in charge of police forces in Tuscon, Arizona, has spoken out against the state's controversial new immigration law. He told a local news station that the law was "racist," . . .
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April 29, 2010 09:55 AM UTC --
Apparently the MacArthur Research Network is telling the world something we already know - more young people are living at home during the recession. What you may not know is it's not entirely due . . .
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April 28, 2010 12:08 PM UTC --
Sad story - Mississippi cut a student completely out of her senior yearbook. Ceara Sturgis, the Hazelhurst, MS teen who wore a tuxedo in her senior picture, is not in the Wesson Attendance Center . . .
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April 28, 2010 11:41 AM UTC --
Well the drama behind Arizona's new immigration standards has become so controversial that the California city governments of Los Angeles and San Francisco are considering a boycott against businesses . . .
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April 28, 2010 10:55 AM UTC --
US News has just released their rankings for teen driving, and the results are not surprising. States that had strong restrictions on teen drivers such as graduated licenses or night-time restrictions . . .
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April 08, 2010 09:37 AM UTC --
U.S. President Obama signed a nuclear arms treaty with Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev today, hopefully ushering in a new decade of positive relations between the former cold war enemies. . . .
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April 04, 2010 07:57 PM UTC --
Three car bombs went off near foreign embassies on Sunday in Baghdad. The blasts killed more than 40 people and injured over 200.
Officials theorize that the Sunni Arab extremist . . .
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April 04, 2010 07:22 PM UTC --
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Sunday at around 3:40 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The quake was centered 16 miles south Guadalupe Victoria, 108 . . .
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April 01, 2010 10:19 AM UTC --
Not many people know what Topeka is, but it will be harder to find now that the mayor renamed it GOOGLE, Kansas.
You probably learned about this town in fourth grade. Topeka is the tiny capital . . .
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March 31, 2010 11:08 PM UTC --
Rumors are flying around the internet tonight – that Sarah Jessica Parker is dead. The buzz is that the Sex and the City star wife of actor Matthew Broderick, and mother was in a car . . .
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March 31, 2010 10:58 PM UTC --
Apparently speeding in your car is a lot harder to do during a recession, according to a study from the Journal of Law and Economics. When police forces fall on hard times, they need to make . . .
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March 31, 2010 07:23 PM UTC --
The health care reform that has passed is more than just insurance. $50 million per year for five years has been set aside for abstinence-focused education.
If schools want funding . . .
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March 31, 2010 06:18 PM UTC --
Sandra Bullock is hiding; her husband Jesse James is in rehab; mistresses are still speaking out.
This week has certainly fueled the relationship drama between Oscar-winning actress . . .
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