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The overuse of antibiotics in livestock has had harmful consequences for humans, and Congress is unwilling to do anything about it. That’s according to a new study that says Congress has blocked all efforts to restrict the feeding of antibiotics ...

Police in New York have enforced a controversial new law and arrested a man for having too many bullets in his gun. Lockport police arrested Paul A. Wojdan, 26, during a traffic stop for violating the New York Secure Ammunition ...

A thwarted gas station robbery in Nashua, New Hampshire, is causing a stir not because of what happened during the attack, but what company executives did afterward. Shannon “Bear” Cothran, 29, was working alone at a Shell station at 3 ...

A major credit card payment handler’s refusal to process transactions involving legal online gun sales is causing a stir among gun rights advocates. The controversy started in September when Authorize.net, one of the nation’s major credit card “payment gateways”, ended ...

In its efforts to ensure the safety of food, the US government may actually be ignoring the real problem while shutting down small organic farms. So says the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group which released a 16-page ...

As the government shutdown keeps national parks closed, authorities in one southern Utah county are taking matters into their own hands. Officials in San Juan County have proposed taking over national parks during the federal government shutdown in order to ...

As it turns out, chicken nuggets may be short an essential ingredient: chicken. Researchers from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson performed an “autopsy” of two chicken nuggets taken from boxes ordered at two national fast food chains ...

The United States is overloaded with bridges in need of repair or replacement, with not enough money to do the work. Many of today’s bridges are years past their designed life expectancy, according to a report by the Associated Press. ...