Being unemployed for too long reportedly is driving people mad and costing taxpayers billions of dollars in mental illness and other disability claims. The New York Post reported Sunday that as unemployment checks run...
(multimedia) President’s use of power on issues like contraception questioned.
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has quietly offered to finance the Pakistani portion of a multinational gas pipeline project opposed by the United States, in a strong signal of Tehran’s intent to build closer ties...
POTENZA, Italy — Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other...
BERLIN — Angela Merkel’s hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro...
Republican Rep. Allen West decried government “handouts” as the worst form of modern “slavery” during an impassioned floor speech Wednesday evening. The freshman Florida congressman, who is black, made the remarks in commemoration of...
“Who is Mr Schäuble to insult Greece? Who are the Dutch? Who are the Finns?” retorted President Karolous Papoulias, himself a teenage resister against the Wehrmacht in Epirus almost seventy years ago – though...
President Obama has broken a promise to the American people to cut the deficit in half. His latest budget forecasts a $901 billion budget deficit for 2013. If you add in the $1 trillion-plus...
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, is reportedly in talks over becoming the new president of the World Bank, after Robert Zoellick confirmed he is to step down. Mr Zoellick, 58, will leave...
As competition for water resources grows, so does the need for better information about water quality and quantity. WaterSMART, through the combined efforts of the USGS and the Bureau of Reclamation, provides information to...
