Reforming Wall Street is a hot topic on Capitol Hill these days. Congress is currently weighing two financial reform bills that would, to varying degrees, reshape the way the financial system is regulated.
Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple.
"police have no duty or legal requirement' to protect us."
A Maine woman pleaded guilty Friday to killing her husband, who she said had wanted to detonate a radiological "dirty bomb" during the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Denmark is boosting cash incentives to entice immigrants to return to their homelands if they 'can't or won't' assimilate into society. The offer now on the table is close to £12,000 for every person who takes up the offer to leave.
Ireland is offering money to immigrants to leave the recession-crippled Republic. The Irish Department of Justice has confirmed that it is opening an EU-funded project to persuade foreign workers and asylum seekers to return to their country of origin.
A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Ever wondered why our country's laws so often favor the rich over middle and working-class people? Consider this: Last week, the Center for Responsive Politics released its latest survey of congressional financial disclosure forms.
In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.
Two years ago we asked the question: Could the mass hysteria of the 1938 "War of the Worlds" scandal, in which a Halloween radio drama orchestrated by actor Orson Welles was mistaken for a real announcement of Martians landing in New Jersey, still take place in the Information Ag …
There is allegedly proof that the story of balloon boy Falcon Heene was a stunt to help pitch a television show. But the purported proof will cost you thousands of dollars to get
The "geniuses" at the Apple Store in Vermont have probably run into all sorts of excuses for broken iPhones, but they just didn't believe Kris Rowley. "A bear ate my iPhone," she told them.
"We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix," an Apple representative said in a prepared statement Monday.
A Dolton cop caught on camera allegedly breaking a 15-year-old special needs student's nose for failing to tuck in his shirt has a troubling history that includes killing a man in a case of disputed self-defense and is now in an Indiana jail on an unrelated rape charge.
Fight on San Francisco Muni Bus in Chinatown
Proposed law would increase fines for loudest car stereo offenders.
New Zealand's Martin Jetpack Company started its first commercial solo flights today, with the first pilots winning by auction on TradeMe. And the winner? A Christchurch strip club - so it was up to four strippers to learn how to operate the jetpack.
A bra that can save your life during a terrorist attack, diamonds made from tequila, and trash reduction via panda poop were among the more unusual scientific achievements lauded last night at the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
The Polanski case revives debate about the age of consent—and how America stacks up against other countries when it comes to sexual permissiveness.
As a fellow child rape victim, hearing Roman Polanski's supporters cite his filmmaking to justify his freedom brings the injustice of that incident flooding back.
The idea that Roman Polanski was done in by an unscrupulous judge is a myth. Marcia Clark studies the startling transcripts from his 1977 guilty plea.
"I do my own stunts" may look sweet printed next to a head shot, but few actors can say it with a straight face.
Turkish hopes of joining the EU appeared to be all but over after Germany gave warning it was ready to join France and Italy in outright opposition to the country's membership.
A retired L.A. prosecutor—the man at the center of the Polanski judicial misconduct allegations—now tells Marcia Clark that he lied to documentarians, undercutting the director's defense.
Hewlett-Packard is bullish on 2010. CEO Mark Hurd said Thursday at a meeting with analysts that he expects the IT industry to return to growth in 2010 and went so far as to say that HP will outpace the market.
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