cbs | Thousands of New York City jobs on the line. Mayor Michael Bloomberg released a doomsday scenario Tuesday, saying if Albany goes through with cuts to city aid he will be forced to make massive layoffs -- possibly the worst in decades. It's a grim equation for a grim time. Bloomberg sai...

March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in February to a record low as blizzards, unemployment and foreclosures depressed the market. Purchases decreased 2.2 percent to an annual pace of 308,000, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. The m...

cbsnews.com | Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, told CBS News Wednesday that he will call for a special prosecutor to investigate the White House if it does not address Rep. Joe Sestak's claim that he was offered a federal job in exchange for dropping out of the...

WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- Social Security payouts will exceed payroll tax revenues in 2010 because of the economic downturn, U.S. officials said. The milestone had been expected to arrive in 2016 but the Congressional Budget Office says the recession has resulted in falling revenue due to persi...

blacklistednews.com | Could Aluminum, Barium and Other Substances from Stratospheric Aerosol Geo-Engineering Programs be Destroying Eco-Systems around the World? What would you do if you were told that toxic substances being sprayed into the sky are falling to the ground and decimating eco-systems ...

Chicagotribune | Twenty-nine school districts, seven more than last year, are on the state's financial watch list. The Illinois State Board of Education released its annual report on the financial health of school districts Wednesday, and as expected in the current economy, the picture is grim. Sta...

Newsmax.com | An overwhelming majority of American voters now believe that the United States could experience a total economic collapse.  According to the latest Fox News poll, 79 percent of U.S. voters believe "it’s possible the nation’s economy could collapse", and the poll found that this
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courant.com | Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field ...

examiner.com | This morning, the New Jersey Board of Education voted to approve their list of religious holidays permitting pupil absence from school for the 2010-2011 school year. Included for the first time on this list are the eight Pagan/Wiccan holidays, or sabbats.  This marks the first ti...

(Reuters) - The H1N1 swine flu virus may have been new to humanity in many ways but in one key feature its closest relative was the 1918 pandemic virus, researchers reported on Wednesday.   Their findings could point to better ways to design vaccines and help explain why the swine flu pandemi...

komonews.com | SEATTLE -- The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter's abortion during school hours. The mother, whom KOMO News has chosen to identify only as "Jill," says the clinic kept the information "confidential." ...

chuckbaldwinlive.com | Passage of the so-called "health care reform" bill in the House of Representatives this past Sunday, March 21 (I won't even address the inferred unconstitutionality of Congress doing business on the Lord's Day. See Article. I. Section. 7. Paragraph. 2.) drove yet another st...

gawker.com | Over the past two years, more than a dozen Securities and Exchange employees and contractors have tried to view pornography on government computers at least 8,273 times. Here's what they were looking at while the global financial system cratered.

alternet | Of course, booze is hardly the only commonly ingested intoxicant. Take the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen (Tylenol). According to the Merck online medical library, acetaminophen poisoning and overdose is “common,” and can result in gastroenteritis (inflammation of the gastroint...

cbs3.com | On March 5, deputies arriving to post an eviction notice on Lynda Clark's South Philadelphia home found she had hanged herself. "It's devastating for everyone. We're not even family members and it's just devastating to us," Captain Albert Innaurato of the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office ...

aftermathnews | Pesticide poisoning is a major health problem. Every year thousands of farm workers die of pesticide poisoning and millions more suffer severe effects, mainly in developing countries. A survey in Nicaragua last year concluded that 2 per cent of the country’s adult population suffers ...

Presstv | Recently, California has been releasing a 'considerable' number of its 167,000 prisoners in the state's 33 prisons in an effort to slash spending and help fight a burgeoning 20 billion dollar budget deficit that has already taken its toll on education, healthcare and other public services ...

Presstv | US authorities have arrested a number of anti-war protesters, including high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, during a demonstration in Washington DC. Eight peace activists were detained after laying coffins near a fence outside the White House during a Saturday rally in which thousands...

dallasnews.com | Commercial property foreclosure filings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area top $1 billion for the upcoming April sales. That's much higher than commercial foreclosure posting totals in recent months. "It's certainly the highest we've seen in this cycle," George Roddy of Foreclosure Lis...

americanthinker.com | Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the Dean of the House of Representatives for being the longest serving member of the body (he was first elected in 1955, succeeding his father, Rep.  John Dingell, Sr.), made an amazing admission during a live telephone interview with Detroit WJR ...