The Federal Communications Commission oversees the so-called Lifeline program, created in 1984 to make sure impoverished Americans had telephone service available to call their moms, bosses, and 911.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has given a September 1st deadline to the Turkish government, to advance the Kurdish-Turk peace process, the AFP has reported.
The amount of illegal marijuana from Colorado and seized elsewhere quadrupled in the past few years, according to a report by a network of law enforcement organizations.
A strange payment rolled up to two local law offices in Southern Illinois. A truck carrying $150,000 in quarters. It was part of a protest by Roger Herrin about a court ruling in a wrongful death case.
Startling new housing data released this week could take the pep out of President Obama’s blitz of economic rallies, as they show homeownership dropping despite the push — by him and his predecessors — to prop up the market.
68-year-old Pierre-Paul Thomas was born blind and would have continued to live without vision if he hadn’t fallen down his stairs two years ago.
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting sick and tired of the NSA’s and its congressional defenders’ lies about its unconstitutional surveillance programs. Wednesday’s revelations about XKeyscore further substantiates Snowden’s claims.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reportedly has left the Moscow airport and entered Russian territory after receiving refugee status in the country.
House Republicans, in a lengthy report on the Justice Department’s leak investigations, formally accused Attorney General Eric Holder of misleading Congress with “deceptive” testimony that he knew nothing of the “potential prosecution” of the press.
During his Wednesday broadcast, MSNBC host Chris Matthews reiterated his insistence that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) both looks and acts like former U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI). And that wasn’t all…