The California legislature passed a bill September 6 that would make it legal for non-doctors such as midwives to perform abortions. The measure now awaits Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s signature.
The strange disappearance from public view of China’s presumptive new leader is turning a year that was supposed to showcase the Communist Party’s stability into something of an annus horribilis.
While a record number of Americans are not currently in the labor force, according to the Department of Labor, unemployment for government workers drops to 5.1 percent, the lowest among all industries.
Only a day after Shell Alaska began drilling a landmark offshore oil well in the Arctic, the company was forced on Monday to pull off the well in the face of an approaching ice pack.
The apparent murder victim was a celebrated teacher who allegedly led a double life as a child molester. The details of the killing, as well as the sordid past described by his alleged victims, has shocked many in this Florida community.
Jim Rogers, co-founder of Quantum Fund with George Soros, is convinced that the Eurozone is set for catastrophic collapse. He’s advising that if you want to protect against this, buy commodities like silver or rice.
The impending food crisis, along with skyrocketing Alaska shipping costs, are combining to create a major food and feed price increases this next year in the land of the Midnight Sun.
Romney’s wealth is crippling his support among lower-income white Southerners. Studies show they are far more concerned about that and his religion than his skin color.
Iran is making it abundantly clear that it means to take any prospect of war from the U.S. to our door to deter it. That’s right, to our door, using Latin America, with Hezb’allah terrorists. And Mexico just arrested three of them.
The European Union will impose a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels over fears they are less climate-friendly and because of international food shortages.