21 US cities restrict sharing food with homeless people
In the United States, 21 cities have restricted sharing food with homeless people through legislation or community pressure since January 2013, and about 10 other cities are in the process of doing so,...
View ArticleHong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement protesters have been demanding that the city’s top official, CY Leung, step down for weeks now. They may soon be joined by many more of the city’s 7 million residents,...
View ArticleCongress to the FBI: There's 'Zero Chance' We'll Force Apple to Decrypt Phones
The FBI's director wants Congress to force force Apple and Google to do away with default smartphone encryption. Congress, however, doesn’t look to be with him.Last week, FBI director James Comey...
View ArticleChicago nets 50m less than expected on speed trap cameras. Good behavior is...
Chicagoans are costing the city tens of millions of dollars -– through good behavior.You heard that right: Good behavior is bad for the budget. Real bad, reports CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay...
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Birmingham pays $460,000 to end police beating lawsuit, but only $1,000 goes...
The city of Birmingham has settled a police beating lawsuit for $460,000, but the plaintiff remains behind bars and won't get much of a payday.Under terms of the settlement approved by the City...
View ArticleCoffee May Protect the Liver: Drinking coffee — even decaffeinated coffee —...
Drinking coffee — even decaffeinated coffee — may protect your liver, a large new study has found.Researchers examined the coffee-drinking habits of 27,793 people who filled out diet questionnaires in...
View ArticleMaine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Tuesday that he wants to "find a way" to...
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Tuesday that he wants to "find a way" to provide health insurance to the state's 70,000 uninsured, even though he vetoed legislation in April that would have done just...
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Economists Say We Should Tax The Rich At 90 Percent: "A 90 percent top...
America has been doing income taxes wrong for more than 50 years.All Americans, including the rich, would be better off if top tax rates went back to Eisenhower-era levels when the top federal income...
View ArticleAustralian Government says, website blocking is not Web filtering.
Government agencies would be required to put up "stop pages" alerting the public to websites blocked under Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act under proposals put forward by the Department of...
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Fox News Thinks Young Women Are Too Busy with Tinder to "Get" Voting
Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, a woman, shared some advice for us feeble-minded young ladies out here: Let's not burden ourselves with voting! After all, we're far too busy swiping for a man on...
View ArticleEveryone In America Would Be Better Off If We Soaked The Rich: "While...
A 90 percent tax rate on the top 1 percent of American earners wouldn’t just significantly reduce income and wealth inequality and boost government tax revenues. It would also be the optimal level for...
View ArticleU.S. threatens sanctions on buyers of ISIS oil
The Obama administration on Thursday threatened to slap sanctions on anyone buying oil from Islamic State militants in an effort to disrupt what it said was a $1-million-a-day funding source.Islamic...
View ArticleAmericans taking fewest vacation days in four decades
Feeling buried by work, like you can't find time for a few days off, like your entire work-life balance is out of whack?If you're an American worker, it just might be.A new study has found that U.S....
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10 Tips to Get The Most Health Benefits From Your Water
How are you drinking your water? As strange as it sounds, the amount of water you drink is just the beginning. How you drink water can have huge health benefits, too. Here are 10 easy tips to power up...
View Article6 healthy things you can have too much of
Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s healthy and what’s not. The science seems to go back and forth on how much of certain things you should have— one day eggs and coffee are good for you, the next day...
View Article25 Foods Dentists Won't Eat And 15 Ways to Wreck Your Teeth
Don't eat that!Fact: Nobody looks forward to her biannual rendezvous at the dentist’s. But the discomfort from the poking and scraping of routine cleanings is nothing compared to the pain (not to...
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How Did Pumpkins Become a Scary Halloween Staple?
Pumpkins are now one of most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a Halloween...
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