Utah town throws Halloween a week early for a four year old boy with leukemia...
This town made a bit of a change to their yearly holiday routine for one very special little boy.Ethan Van Leuven, a 4-year-old from West Jordan, Utah, has been battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a...
View ArticleThe Police Are Still Out of Control. I Should Know. | By FRANK SERPICO
By FRANK SERPICOBy FRANK By FRANK SERPICOSERPICOBy FRANK SERPICOIn the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by...
View ArticleRegistered gun owners in the United Kingdom are now subject to unannounced...
Registered gun owners in the United Kingdom are now subject to unannounced visits to their homes under new guidance that allows police to inspect firearms storage without a warrant.The new policy from...
View ArticleProtest against the world's first internet tax in Hungary
More than 10,000 people marched in Budapest on Sunday to demand the scrapping of a proposed tax on Internet usage that critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orban call his latest anti-democratic...
View ArticleDisturbing Video Shows 17-Year-Old Beaten By Gang Of Girls: A 17-year-old is...
A 17-year-old is beaten and robbed by a girl gang in West Baltimore. The entire thing was caught on cell phone camera and shared repeatedly on the web. Now the victim’s mother speaks with WJZ.Meghan...
View ArticleThe Canada federal government is “shamelessly” exploiting last week’s...
The federal government is “shamelessly” exploiting last week’s extremist attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice, says journalist Glenn Greenwald.The Pulitzer-Prize winning U.S....
View ArticleFor 4th time, Youngstown voters asked to ban fracking. “Our local and state...
Youngstown voters have rejected the anti-fracking Community Bill of Rights charter amendment three times, but supporters says they won’t give up even if it’s defeated again in the Nov. 4 election.“This...
View ArticleRecent Police Raids on Medical Marijuana Gardens in California Cut Off...
October 22, 2014. As promising results from clinical trials are announced in the use of cannabis (medical marijuana) to treat intractable epilepsy, those lawfully cultivating the plant in California...
View ArticleAmerica has turned its back on its own history. We need public investment; at...
America used to be a country that built for the future. Sometimes the government built directly: Public projects, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway System, provided the backbone for...
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Want Barack Obama to Release Torture Report
Say American leaders have “eroded the very freedoms and rights that generations of their young gave their lives to defend”Twelve winners of the Nobel Peace Prize asked President Barack Obama late...
View ArticlePope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are right and God isn't...
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared.Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which...
View ArticleTwo African boys severely beaten at a NYC school by several people who called...
A group that advocates for Africans in the Bronx is calling for action after it says two brothers who had recently immigrated to the borough from Senegal were beaten and badly injured by several people...
View Article'It's rape': High school football hazing charges stun town
A small New Jersey town is reeling weeks after seven high-school varsity American football players were accused of charges ranging from hazing to aggravated sexual assault earlier this month.According...
View ArticleWhen salaries become public, city managers' pay drops 8% and their quit rate...
In the era of big data, transparency has become a popular policy tool for addressing potential problems. But publicly disclosing personal information — such as government officials' income — may result...
View ArticleLess than 1% of Patriot Act’s “Sneak and Peek” Delayed Notice Warrants are...
The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a...
View ArticlePolice in Ferguson Stock Up On Riot Gear Ahead of Grand Jury Decision - $25k...
The police department overseeing the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old has spent tens of thousands of dollars replenishing their stocks of teargas, “less...
View ArticleA black man who was shot by Utah police while armed with a samurai-style...
A black man who was shot by Utah police while armed with a samurai-style sword as part of a Japanese anime costume died of multiple gunshot wounds, including several in the back of his body, according...
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'British Schindler' aged 105, who saved 669 children from the Nazi's, awarded...
Sir Nicholas said he was "delighted" so many of the children he helped were able to attend the ceremony A British man who saved 669 children, most of them Jews, from the Nazis has been awarded the...
View ArticleAround 100,000 Hungarians rally for democracy as internet tax hits nerve
About 100,000 Hungarians rallied on Tuesday night to protest at a planned tax on data traffic and the broader course of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government they saw as undermining democracy and...
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