Court Seals Unclassified Docs in Drake “Leak” Case
Prosecutors in the case of the former National Security Agency official Thomas A. Drake, who is suspected of leaking classified information to a reporter, last week asked the court to block public...
View ArticleProtocols on Nuke Free Zones in Africa, Pacific Sent to Senate
With little fanfare, the White House last month transmitted the protocols of two treaties on nuclear weapons free zones in the South Pacific and Africa to the U.S. Senate for ratification. The...
View ArticleFraudsters Rely on Digital Economy Act to Convince Users to Pay Up
The UK’s anti-piracy bill known as the Digital Economy Act (DEA) has given fraudsters new ideas on how to dupe … Read More
View ArticleRepublicans line up to rip Michele Bachmann – Politico
They were long afraid to do it, but now conservatives have their knives out for Rep. Michele Bachmann.Senators in her own party, congressional candidates, a lawmaker in her state’s delegation and...
View ArticleThe NDAA Retroactively Legalizes Gitmo, Black Sites, and the Worst of the War...
With 500-some pages of text, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) covers a lot more than just section 1021(b), but the majority of the debates over the bill involve the very reason the...
View ArticleStudy: Climate change disbelievers get most column space in U.S. and UK...
Climate sceptics feature more prominently in newspapers in the US and UK than other countries, and their views are more likely to go unchallenged in right-leaning papers, an academic study has shown....
View ArticleRoyal mail revealed: Queen Mother on her marriage dilemma and ‘sharp as a...
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was known for not giving interviews. She stayed loyal to her habit of writing letters her entire life instead. The highly-anticipated selection of her diaries and...
View ArticleWeather Channel’s senior meteorologist issues grave warning
In case you are unaware about the havoc Hurricane Sandy will unleash upon the East Coast, the Weather Channel's Stu Ostro, who is "not prone to hyperbole," has attempted to put it in...
View ArticleBachmann doubles down on anti-Muslim accusations in debate
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MI) said she stood by five letters alleging that Muslim extremists had infiltrated the U.S. government in a debate Sunday against Democratic challenger Jim Graves. “I...
View ArticleThe GOP’s horrible California nightmare
Republicans are having a bad day. But it's going to get a lot worse when they look beyond the White House and U.S. Senate and fully absorb what just happened in California. The future of American...
View ArticleMick Jagger’s love letters up for sale
It was the summer of 1969 and Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was the poster boy for rebellious youth. But a cache of secret love letters he wrote to US singer Marsha Hunt, to be auctioned next...
View ArticleWorld War II love letters discovered on beach after Hurricane Sandy
A New York woman says her 14-year-old son was walking along a beach in Atlantic Highlands the day after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region and found 57 World War II-era love letters. The letters...
View Article‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ School Field Trip Criticized By Atheist Group For...
An atheist group is accused of waging war against Christmas by attacking an Arkansas elementary school for a field trip to see "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at a local church. The group is arguing that...
View ArticleCarrier Pigeon Code From World War 2 Era Stumps English Spy Agency
A carrier pigeon's last wartime message has baffled the code breakers at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the spy agency in charge of signals intelligence.The message consists...
View ArticleLove Letters: Coach Fisher Loves Tallahasee
Eighty thousand people cheer as Chief Osceola throws his spear into the center of a beautiful new brick stadium.Read More... More on Love Letters … Read More
View ArticleSea Level Rise Accelerating Faster Than Initial Projections
From Climate Central's Michael D. Lemonick:Sea level is rising as the planet warms up, but how much it will rise, and how fast is still something climate scientists are working out. And according to a...
View ArticleWashington Gay Marriage: 30 Couples To Wed In Group Ceremony
Same-sex couples across Washington received marriage licenses for the first time on Thursday, and one Seattle church is planning to celebrate in a big way.Seattle First Baptist Church, which has been...
View ArticleMobster uses mass campaign emails from Obama and other politicians in court...
Collection of letters presented to the court include standard mass email replies from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama From the fictional Tony Soprano to the real word “Dapper Don” John Gotti, US mafia...
View ArticleColin, You’re Amazing: Cast Of Amazing Race Gives Heartwarming Message To A...
Amazing Race 2012 winners "The Beekman Boys," Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, have received more than 8,000 letters of congratulations from various fans after their triumphant finish. One of those...
View ArticleLetters: Redundancy rights change gives an amnesty to bad employers
As a trade unionist and socialist for some 40 years I understand why managements wish to cut the redundancy consultation time to 45 days (Cut in redundancy rights an attack on jobs, says TUC, 19...
View ArticleLetters: Afghan end game
The Guardian, Thursday 20 December 2012 21.00 GMT In your advance report of the prime minister's welcome decision to speed up withdrawal from Afghanistan (4,000 British troops to leave Afghanistan...
View ArticleObama Could Be Facing Impeachment
(Godfather Politics) There are rising concerns on Capitol Hill that President Obama is considering sending US troops into Syria. The military has already taken steps to increase its presence in the...
View ArticleAnonymous $15,000 donation almost thrown away
You may want to check over all those letters, bills and solitciations you receive in the mail a litt … Read More
View ArticleGregory Weinkauf: Face Front! It’s Stan Lee’s Big Birthday Weekend!
Friends and heroes, let us celebrate a truly great man of American letters: the one and only Stan Lee.Read More... More on The Avengers … Read More
View Article$2 million Tarkovsky archive to return to Russia
Director Andrei Tarkovsky during the shooting of the film Andrei Rublyov. (RIA Novosti)A unique archive of personal letters, photographs and audio recordings relating to Russian cinema icon Andrey...
View ArticleSenators want details on CIA help for Bin Laden film
Three powerful US senators are demanding that the CIA provide details on the spy agency’s cooperation with the director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” Hollywood’s take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In two...
View ArticleSwedish Academy Reopens Controversy Surrounding Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize |...
Giant of American letters John Steinbeck beat the British authors Robert Graves and Lawrence Durrell to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1962, according to newly opened archives in Sweden - but he...
View ArticlePoll: Obesity’s a crisis but we want our junk food
WASHINGTON (AP) -- We know obesity is a health crisis, or every new year wouldn't start with resolutions to eat better and get off the couch. But don't try taking away our junk food.Americans blame too...
View ArticleCouple reunited with 1940s love letters
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View ArticleSam Carter, Brent Curnow Resign From Boulder Police Department After Mapleton...
Two Boulder Police officers turned in their letters of resignation Tuesday following their arrest last week for their involvement in the shooting of a bull elk in Boulder's Mapleton...
View Articlei have all your addresses what if i just sent you anonymous letters at random...
i have all your addresses what if i just sent you anonymous letters at random times what if :))))))) … Read More
View ArticleLove letters from Georgia O’Keeffe
The love letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz number upwards of 25,000. It’s such a prolific amount, it makes you marvel that they had any time at all to live the lives they did. The first...
View ArticleFailing health feared for Gitmo inmates on hunger strikes
The detainees have claimed that most of them are involved in thedo-or-die strike, and their attorneys have become concerned aboutthe prisoners’ worsening health.“By day 45 we understand from medical...
View ArticleNASA brings stargazers down to earth, disputing Voyager 1 success
A new study recently suggested that the exploratory spacecraftlaunched by NASA some 35-and-a-half years ago has gone beyond theheliosphere – our corner of space dominated by the influence of theSun -...
View ArticleWindows open: Microsoft reveals tens of thousands of users data disclosed
The software giant claims the requests come from the FBI and assuch the disclosure of the information can be justified.Microsoft revealed in its transparency report it had discloseddata pertaining to...
View Article‘Hunger strikes instead of justice’: Lawyers still denied access to Gitmo...
Inmates' defense lawyers may have no way to reach Cuba's Guantanamo Bay prison after the Navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the military base, allegedly because of an old regulation...
View ArticleBrickbat: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Gloom of Night
The U.S. Postal Service fired carrier Richard Farrell in 2010 after he was caught burning mail he was supposed to deliver. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and...
View ArticleAmerica’s new ‘digital public library’ brings millions of documents online
AFP - A new “digital public library” set to launch this month aims to provide an alternative to Google for those looking for American cultural information online. Visitors will be able to view, for...
View ArticleRicin: The KGB and white supremacists’ favorite toxin
While it’s never been as popular among evildoers as anthrax or other biological agents, ricin, the toxin believed to be contained in at least three letters sent to officials in Washington this week,...
View ArticleFertilizer Plant Explosion Rescues Continue, Washington Marijuana Sales...
Rescuers are going door to door in West, Texas, looking for victims or survivors of last night’s fertilizer plant explosion. ; The death count is still unknown, but is still estimated at five to 15....
View ArticleSenator Wicker once hired ricin suspect as Elvis impersonator
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Roger Wicker says he once hired the man accused of mailing suspicious letters as an Elvis impersonator.The Mississippi Republican said he hired Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth,...
View ArticleDartmouth students punished for protesting rape
“At least two thirds of the protesters have now received disciplinary letters, and it seems random – some people who were featured prominently in the protest didn’t, and others did,” Karenina Rojas,...
View ArticleEgyptian ministers resign in wave as Army deadline nears
Follow RT's LIVE UPDATES on protests in Egypt Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported that millions have staged demonstrations against President Mohamed Morsi’s government since Sunday. Prior to Amr’s...
View ArticleFBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday published a letter from FBI Assistant Director Stephen D. Kelly, who admitted that the agency used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) domestically, without gathering...
View ArticleNY County Officials Use Body Parts of Dead Citizen for Police Dog Training
Without question, the world is becoming less, not more, civilized the older humanity gets. The following is a case in point. … Read More
View ArticleChoose your (Facebook) friends wisely: Companies assess social media accounts...
Instead of heavily relying on one’s FICO credit score, as is standard in the lending business, newer companies turn to a host of online behaviors in offering loans. Creditworthiness of customers is...
View ArticleObama promises to curtail NSA PRISM snooping
Says surveillance is legal and justified after 9/11 … Read More
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