A pathway is seen running through a ravine on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Lake George, N.Y. In the 1990s, businessman Anthony Tomasovic was granted permission to fill in his vacant, sloping property bordering the ravine where British Colonial troops and their Mohawk Indian allies […]
An illustration picture shows the logos of Google and Yahoo connected with LAN cables in a Berlin office October 31, 2013. Reuters) – Eight major U.S. web companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, made a joint call on Monday for tighter controls on how governments […]
Onyango Obama, the uncle of U.S. President Barack Obama, arrives for a hearing at a federal immigration court in Boston, Massachusetts, December 3, 2013. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama lived briefly with his Kenyan-born uncle while attending law school, the White House said on Thursday, reversing earlier […]
1 OF 3. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius attends an event held in observance of World AIDS Day at the White House in Washington December 2, 2013. U.S. (Reuters) – A surge of visitors clogged the U.S. government’s revamped healthcare insurance shopping website […]
By Spencer S. Hsu, The nation’s police chiefs will call Tuesday for changes in the way they conduct investigations as a way to prevent wrongful convictions, including modifying eyewitness identification. In a joint effort with the Justice Department and the Innocence Project, an advocacy group for prisoners […]
By Jonathan Weber and Alden Bentley SAN FRANCISCO | Tue Sep 24, 2013 7:58pm EDT 1 of 9. Members of Oracle Team USA wave to spectators after winning Race 18 of the 34th America’s Cup yacht sailing race against Emirates Team New Zealand in San Francisco, California September […]
Healthcare.gov is supposed to work soon. Democrats are preparing for more bad news. By John Dickerson Kathleen Sebelius is trying to keep expectations low for the revamped healthcare.gov, but Democrats are preparing for more bad news.Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images On Saturday, President Obama’s new Web […]
Lanny Jones – Writer Pia de Jong in her garden in Princeton, NJ. Pia de Jong is an author living in Princeton, N.J. The huge elm lay on its side in front of my house like a capsized ship. It was still alive, still breathing, saturated […]
Caroline Moss Caroline Moss This post originally appeared in Business Insider. By Caroline Moss Advertisement Last September, I had an idea. While riding the crosstown bus, a Dave Matthews Band song popped up on my shuffle. I was reminded of middle school, a time […]
Not that kind of snow. Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images This post previously appeared on Business Insider. By Pamela Engel Vermont has the highest rate of illicit drug use in the country with 15% of people saying they’ve used within the past month (compared to 4.2% in […]
Officer Rod Bradway was a father, firefighter, husband, and great friend, who died saving a woman and her baby……………… INDIANAPOLIS — Colleagues, family members and public officials gathered Thursday to share stories about IMPD Officer Rod Bradway, who was killed in the line of duty […]
The shutdown: Agency by agency Masuma Ahuja and Darla Cameron GRAPHIC | A shutdown at midnight Monday would potentially jeopardize the paychecks of more than 800,000 federal workers. Here’s what some agencies have said about their plans……Source: Washington Post.. The federal government does not […]
Deleon Post and special report 