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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Democratic controlled Senate is poised to pass a broad-ranging bill that would legalize illegal immigrants but House Republicans are saying not so fast. They are entering new testimony into the debate with a two-part hearing that ...

Central Maine Power and its Spanish parent company, Iberdrola, are facing a grassroots swell of opposition to its “smart” meters being introduced in New York State and elsewhere. The new meters emit radio frequencies to transmit home usage data to ...

MIAMI, FL – A viral video of a woman proclaiming her support for President Obama because as she said, “He gave us a phone,” has sparked renewed awareness of the connections between the major provider of those phones and the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the barrage of commercials, news editorials and political grandstanding over the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary continues unabated, one father’s reasoned response has until now gone largely unnoticed. Bill Stevens, a father of a child in ...

LONDON – General Practitioners in Great Britain will soon be compelled to divulge  confidential patient information for the purpose of a national information bank. Privacy advocates say this will be the largest data grab in the history of England’s National ...

“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, ...

Op-Ed: The use of drones has achieved widespread success on the battlefield and proven popular among military commanders. Now the unmanned vehicles are showing up in more and more domestic situations: car chases, along our borders, and routine city surveillance. ...

Sumter, SC – A six-year-old girl who was expelled for bringing a clear plastic gun to class will be allowed to return to school. “I chose to bring it to school because I thought I could show my friends it because they might like seeing ...

Southern Siberia – A recent article that first appeared in The Smithsonian and then Gizmodo, tells the fascinating story a family that went so far off the grid that they lived through World War II and most of the Cold ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual report on union membership last week and the news was somewhat bleak for pro-union forces. Though the economy added almost 2.4 million jobs in 2012, union membership dropped by almost 400,000. Now, ...