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newsmax.com | Donald Trump is not backing down from his demand that President Barack Obama produce his birth certificate and stepped up his criticism by questioning why he has not released other personal records, including college transcripts and legislative papers.
The billionaire real estate ty...
huffingtonpost.com | The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A ...
Reuters) - Stocks fell 1 percent but ended far from session lows on Tuesday on the Federal Reserve's more upbeat economic view and growing sentiment that Japan's nuclear crisis would only temporarily depress shares.
In a second straight day of losses tied to Japan, the S&P 500 fell to within fo...
Washingtonpost.com | Carol Morello, Monday, March 14, 10:10 PMMore Hispanics were counted in the census than anticipated, reflecting the difficulty of calculating the size of the Hispanic population in states where the communities are small and growing rapidly, according to a new study.
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MADISON, Wisconsin — Farmers on tractors joined a massive crowd surrounding Wisconsin's capitol Saturday to protest Republican moves to undermine unions and slash government services in a battle spreading across the United States.
Cheers and bells rang out as tractors bearing signs declaring "Walke...
REDONDO BEACH (KTLA) -- Heal the Bay, one of Southern California's leading ocean advocates, is looking for volunteers to help clean up millions of dead fish that washed up in King Harbor near Redondo Beach.
Experts believe the fist suffocated after being chased into the marina by rough waters Tue...
Madison, Wisconsin (CNN) -- After weeks of demonstrations in the state capital, Wisconsin Republicans cleared a final hurdle to a controversial proposal on Thursday after the state's Assembly passed an amended version of a bill that would curtail the bargaining rights of most state workers.
The vot...
kingworldnews | Bill Haynes continues:| “Eric, the Mint sold about 10 million ounces of American Silver Eagles so far this year, 6.4 million in January and about half that in February. The Mint had no problem producing those record quantities, but now the US Mint is cutting allocations to its ...
Reuters) - Bankers can expect their bonus packages in 2011 to be 10 percent to 15 percent richer on average than last year, a widely followed compensation expert said on Friday on Reuters Insider.
Not everyone should expect that level of increase, however.
Asset managers and brokers will c...
(Reuters) - A judge on Thursday put on hold his ruling that President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul was unconstitutional, allowing the White House to continue implementing the landmark legislation for now.
But U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson failed to dispel widespread uncertainty about the f...
NaturalNews) When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency's annual Ou...
allgov.com | After months of earthquakes, including the largest felt in 35 years, the state of Arkansas has ordered a temporary moratorium on the drilling of new injection wells related to natural gas-related drilling, which some locals believe are causing the seismic activity. More than 700 small e...
WASHINGTON (WGHP) — More than 29,000 North Carolinians have not claimed their refunds from their 2007 tax returns, and their time is running out.
The refunds total $37.5 million in this state alone, and half of the refunds are $640 or more, IRS officials reported.
The IRS said the vast majorit...
Presstv | Nearly 76,000 US military veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009, and close to 136,000 veterans resided in shelters that same year, a study has shown.
According to an assessment recently released by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on a single night i...
USAtoday | If political unrest in Libya spreads to other oil-rich countries and the ensuing chaos disrupts crude oil production, gas prices could hit $5 a gallon by peak summer driving season, industry analysts say.
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paul.house.gov | For the past three decades, the Federal Reserve has been given a dual mandate: keeping prices stable and maximizing employment. This policy relies not only on the fatal conceit of believing in the wisdom of supposed experts, but also on numerical chicanery.
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wsj.com | WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's $3.73 trillion budget proposal for fiscal-year 2012 marks the start of a long fight with congressional Republicans about the depth of spending cuts
rawstory | A former employee of Fox News called the company a "propaganda outfit" that is determined to undermine the Obama administration and Democrats.
"I don't think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up," the employee, whose name was kept anonymous, told th...
LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC-TV) – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is trying to figure out what caused the death of hundreds of birds in south Lake Charles.
The birds were discovered on Thursday morning.
More than 100 birds were scattered across Lake Street between Gauthier and Tank F...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Sometime, somehow, the foreclosure crisis will ease. But probably not anytime soon.
Home prices dropped 2.6% nationwide during the last three months of 2010, pushing more borrowers underwater, according to a quarterly real estate market survey from Zillow.com.
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