Last Sunday the prime time and popular CBS reality show “Amazing Race” found it’s contestants in Vietnam, racing through the streets of Hanoi in the shows hybridized, scavenger hunt, searching for landmarks and clues. To many of the viewers, this was an opportunity to see an everyday slice of life of a country that used to be our enemy.
The government agency charged with investigating discrimination in the workplace is itself facing a discrimination lawsuit by a worker claiming he was forced to violate his religious beliefs.
In his first address on the world’s affairs to diplomats accredited to the Holy See, Pope Francis was very clear about one thing: no one should assume that because he is devoted to the poor and the goal of peace in the world, that he deviates from the substance of the message of his predecessor.
Michele Bachmann has been under fire in the press this week after she criticized President Barack Obama for taking advantage of the White House’s taxpayer funded dog walker. Beyond the factual inaccuracies, however, MSNBC host Chris Matthews identified a racial element in Bachmann’s criticisms of Obama.
Alaska’s Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski both supported Obama’s anti-gun nominee for the second-most powerful court in the United States. But their alliance with the President fell flat yesterday.
A young miniature horse in sneakers is helping a 4-year-old special needs child at an Anchorage public elementary school. Zoe, a black mare, is a service animal for preschooler Zaiden Beattie at Russian Jack Elementary School.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski wants taxpayers to pay for a road from the town of King Cove to Cold Bay and the latter’s all-weather airport, purportedly for safety reasons. But as more details are revealed, the road is looking more like a corporate pay-off.
A public charter school in Massachusetts turned a deaf ear to protests last week and followed through with performing a pro-homosexual play that mocks the Bible and has been blasted as “blasphemous.”
More talk of government intrusion into private lives: a panel of technology law experts called on Congress to pass legislation mandating the long-term retention of every American’s text messages and emails in case of a future criminal investigation.
The number of dead pigs recovered in the last two weeks from rivers that supply water to Shanghai has risen to more than 16,000.