Author: Jim Addison

A major humanitarian disaster is shaping up, and word isn't in yet from the more remote areas, after the 8.0 intensity earthquake, reports Jean Luis Arce for Reuters: Peruvians …

With the United States planning to add Iran's Revolutionary Guards to our list of terrorist groups, the Guards aren't backing down at all. In fact, they are as belligerent …

The open-to-editing information website Wikipedia has been the victim of self-serving censorship by politicians, corporations, and even churches and other non-profit organizations, Robert Verkaik reports for the Independent Online: …

A former NBA official who pleaded guilty to gambling charges will implicate other refs, the Seattle Times is reporting: Former official Tim Donaghy reportedly will give information that will …

FoxNY reports: A seven-alarm blaze in a skyscraper abandoned on Sept. 11 killed two firefighters and raised concerns that toxic substances in the building could be spreading in the …

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Democrats trying to block Judge Leslie Southwick from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lost a potential ally today as the Washington Post says they haven't made their case: …

Democrats are working on a huge expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program that covers children of families with too much income to qualify for Medicaid. The only …

Orange County, Florida cops have a program to trade guns for sneakers. The idea, as with other "gun exchange" programs, is to get guns off the streets. Yesterday's event …

Say, remember when younger brother Marcus screwed up - I think it was fourth time, but maybe the third - and Mom sent him to Atlanta to live with …