(Photo: Wikipedia) From the chief actuary at the California health insurance exchange that President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law established to the legions of call center staffers who will help people trying to buy insurance through such state exchanges,...
Million-strong anti-govt protests sweep Brazil A hundred cities across Brazil have seen a fresh wave of mass protests while the first death has been reported among the demonstrators, in the state of Sao Paulo....
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding plan to have independent scientists review its finding that hydraulic fracturing may be linked to groundwater pollution in central...
(Photo: Wikipedia) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of...
Stocks tumbled, with the benchmark index of global equities sinking the most in 19 months, and bonds fell around the world after the Federal Reserve said it may phase out stimulus and China’s cash crunch worsened. Gold led commodities...
(Photo: Wikipedia) (Reuters) – The Syrian boys looked edgy and awkward. Three months ago their town, the eastern desert city of Raqqa, had fallen to rebel fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s government....
GM crops are probably safer than conventional plants, according to the Environment Secretary. Making the strongest call yet for the adoption of the technology, Mr Paterson told the BBC that that GM has significant...
One in nine US bridges – more than 66,000 in total – are structurally deficient, a report has found. Since 2008, the pace at which the US repairs bridges has slowed threefold compared to...
(Photo: Wikipedia) (Reuters) – As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President...
During his radio show on Friday, Rush Limbaugh told his listeners, “I think abortion is at the root of so much that has and is going wrong in this country.” The conservative host went...
