Homeland Security Curtails Sheriff’s Powers
The Department of Homeland Security has revoked the special immigration enforcement contract it had under Federal Law 287g with Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona. ...
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Gold Hits Record Highs for Three Days
Early on October 8, BBC News reported that gold had hit $1,058 per ounce, marking the third consecutive day of all-time-high prices. ...
Normal Flu Shot May Counter H1N1
Researchers in Mexico have gathered evidence that the normal flu vaccine offers some degree of protection versus the H1N1 swine flu, Reuters reported on October 6. ...
Georgia School Sidelines Bible Verses
As of their Friday night game on October 2, the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School football team, the Warriors, have been forbidden from using Bible verses on the large banner they run...
Obama Recruits Doctors for Reform Speech
President Barack Obama gathered doctors from all 50 states of the nation to fill the Rose Garden as he once again pushed his version of healthcare reform in an October 5...
The Newspaper Revitalization Act Bailout
Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) introduced “The Newspaper Revitalization Act” on March 24 of this year. The legislation would allow the nation’s struggling newspapers to restructure as nonprofit, tax-exempt entities similar to...
September Unemployment Hits 9.8 Percent
The national unemployment rate hit 9.8 percent in September, the highest it has been since June 1983. A total of 15.1 million Americans are now out of work, and 7.2 million...
FBI Claims OKC Bombing Tapes Not Edited
The Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that surveillance tapes of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995 have not been edited, despite the...
U.S. Opens ICANN to Global Influence
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed an agreement on September 30 to give the international community more input into Internet governance....
New Figures for GDP Decline and Job Losses
America’s gross domestic product declined in the second quarter of this year, and in September the economy continued to lose jobs. Yet because the decline in the GDP was not as...
FDIC Wants Banks to Prepay Fees
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed on September 29 that banks prepay $45 billion in insurance premiums to help the FDIC avoid running out of money to cover bank failures. ...
Public Insurance Option Voted Down
The Senate Finance Committee led by Max Baucus (D-Mont.) on September 29 voted 15-8 against including a public health insurance plan in the panel’s proposed healthcare reform legislation. ...
Secret Service Investigates Facebook Poll
FOX News reported on September 28 that the U.S. Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on the Facebook website that posed the shockingly reprehensible question: “Should Obama be killed?” ...
OKC Bombing Tapes Were Tampered With
Before 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995 was the worst terrorist act on American soil. It still ranks as one of...
Kirk Takes Kennedy’s Seat in Senate
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. has been officially sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden to temporarily take the Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy....