Fox News: A federal appeals court on Friday suspended parts of Alabama’s tough immigration law while it considers the Justice Department’s request to strike it down. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute illegal immigrants for not carrying registration documents with them at all times or require schools to [...]
Styleite: In any political debate, you would expect the candidates would be able to, for the most part, hold themselves together. So why did Congressman Ron Paul‘s eyebrows look like they were falling off during this week’s presidential showdown? Paul gathered with the other Republican candidates for president at Dartmouth College, but he was the [...]
BBC: US President Barack Obama has outlined a plan to disarm one of Africa’s most feared rebel militias, the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army. It aims to defuse the spiralling bloodshed in central Africa by removing the LRA’s leader, Joseph Kony. LRA fighters will also be encouraged to defect or lay down their arms. US ally [...]
The Hill: Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) tried to revive his flagging presidential campaign Friday with a major policy speech on jobs and the economy. “Natural-gas exploration is a game-changer that can bring new opportunities to replace the ones that have been lost,” Perry told a crowd of hard-hat-wearing steelworkers outside Pittsburgh. “Development of natural [...]
Science News: MINNEAPOLIS — By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and the other explorers who followed may have set off a chain of events that cooled Europe’s climate for centuries. The European conquest of the Americas decimated the people living there, leaving large areas of cleared land untended. Trees that filled in this [...]
Excerpted from the Drudge Report: **Exclusive** “As the faith that gave birth to the West is dying in the West, peoples of European descent from the steppes of Russia to the coast of California have begun to die out, as the Third World treks north to claim the estate. The last decade provided corroborating if [...]
“The agreement is based on the borders of June 4. While the agreement is on the borders of June 4, the President [Mahmoud Abbas] understands, we understand, and everyone knows that it is impossible to realize the inspiring idea, or the great goal in one stroke. If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, if Israel uproots the [...]
Boston Herald: A Somerville principal has opened fire on cherished American holidays, blasting legendary explorer Christopher Columbus for “atrocities” and saying “we need to be careful” about celebrating Thanksgiving in a scathing email to teachers — who are already under orders not to let the kids dress up for Halloween. “When we were young we [...]
Oct 14 (Reuters) — U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly slumped in early October as worries about declining incomes drove consumer expectations back down to the lowest level in more than 30 years, a survey released on Friday showed. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment sagged to 57.5 from [...]
ABC News’ Greg Krieg reports from New York City: City officials today postponed a cleanup of Zuccotti Park after earlier threatening to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been encamped here. Jubilant protesters later poured from the park to the Wall Street area, some clashing with police. As many as 15 people were reportedly [...]
A member of the Occupy Wall St movement walks over a U.S. flag on that lies on the ground in Zuccotti Park near the financial district of New York October 13, 2011. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who called for the protesters to leave briefly on Friday so the park could be cleaned, has indicated [...]
Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents: MyFoxBOSTON.com
A National Lawyers Guild observer reacts after being run over by a New York City police officer as Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march through the streets near Wall Street Oct. 14, 2011, in New York. CBS News: NEW YORK – Just a few hours after protesters learned they’d be able to stay indefinitely at the [...]
DENVER (AP) – A large number of police officers in riot gear made dozens of arrests as they broke up the Occupy Denver protest in a park outside the Capitol building in downtown Denver Friday morning. Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson says at least 24 people were arrested. The Colorado State Patrol says many face [...]
