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Hurricane Earl is headed toward the east coast of the United States, driving tourists from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up and down the Atlantic coast.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened Monday to launch a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations as he gave fresh hints that he planned to return to the Kremlin as President in 2012.
Ahead of start of direct peace talks in Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says that Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods will be part of a Palestinian state and that a "special regime" will govern Jerusalem's holy sites.
It is being reported that Israel is considering construction of an underwater gas pipeline to export natural gas to Europe and Greece.
Taiwan plans to deploy its own cruise missiles by the end of this year, a lawmaker and military pundit said Tuesday, reflecting continued tension with China despite warming ties.
The Chinese navy has begun artillery exercises in the Yellow Sea. This comes just days before the U.S. and South Korea are scheduled to hold similar exercises there.
General Motors announced on Wednesday that U.S. sales in August slumped 24.9% to 185,176 vehicles from 246,479 in August 2009.
Ford reported an 11% drop in sales from a year ago.
At 14.3%, the state of Nevada now has the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
For many Americans, a new job means lower pay.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to "get by" in America.
The Obama administration is “taking the first steps to confiscate retirement dollars,” according to Dr. Jerome Corsi who predicts that the end result will be retirees with 401(k) plans holding near-worthless government debt “that will be paid off in a devalued currency worth … pennies on the dollar.”
An economist at the nonpartisan Hudson Institute says that if House and Senate Democrats pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- known as the “card check bill” -- in this Congress, it would create a “ponzi scheme” environment.
Thanks to a new SEC rule, unions and human-rights advocates can now vote their own candidates onto a company's board of directors.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday approved a proposal by Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. to buy up to 10 percent of the voting shares of Morgan Stanley.
It is being reported that a Russian mini-submarine may have found billions of pounds worth of lost gold in a Siberian lake.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday night conceded the Republican primary election to Joe Miller, the Tea Party backed challenger who maintained his Election Day lead after thousands of additional absentee and other ballots were counted through the day.
The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers that the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.
Sheriff Larry Dever, whose officers patrol Cochise County along the border between Arizona and Mexico, said he finds it “amazing” that the U.S. State Department would refer the recently passed immigration law in his state to the United Nations Human Rights Council for review.
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that nearly 2,000 businesses, labor unions and state and local governments have qualified for federal subsidies to offset the cost of providing their retirees and dependents with medical insurance, another early benefit of the new healthcare law.
A group of black conservatives were explaining their affiliation with the Tea Party movement during the “Restoring Honor” event in Washington DC. A couple of liberal counter-protesters began challenging their political and religious beliefs and asked why they affiliated with Christianity, a “white man’s religion”.
A suburban school district near Chicago has become one of the first in the nation to begin using GPS technology to track schoolchildren riding buses to and from school each day.
The bodies of poor and indigent people for whom Des Moines County would be required to pick up the bill for burial or cremation will soon be offered up to medical schools to use for educational purposes before being laid to rest at public expense.
This fall San Francisco will bar unvaccinated kids from school for three weeks (the disease’s incubation period) after each reported case of whooping cough.
Floods have displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last month in south Sudan with many at risk of malaria and other diseases, the semi-autonomous region's government said Tuesday.
More Americans that ever are storing up emergency food as the U.S. economy begins to fall apart.
It turns out that makers of bottled water, canned goods, dehydrated broth, gas masks and auxiliary generators have been doing very well in this economy.
Scientists in the United States are working feverishly to develop increasingly complex "DNA nanorobots".
A lot of "conspiracy theories" actually turn out to be quite true in the end.
The Washington Post has published a story with this startling headline: "Glenn Beck's Generic God".
In the U.K., the public is being urged to back a campaign to scrap a 300-year-old law which prohibits Catholics from ascending the throne.
Six in 10 American “Millennials” – those born between 1980 and 1991 – see nothing wrong with two people of the same gender getting married.
Lastly, just what kind of freedom did we bring to Iraq? The gospel cannot be preached openly in Iraq today, but in Baghdad markets gigantic piles of pornography from America are openly for sale.
