In the world of the 1930s, comic strip crime fighter, Dick Tracy, took on all manner of bad guys with his trusty wristwatch, which also happened to be a two-way radio. It seems like the future is now, as modern day electronics companies are racing to make inroads into...
For the nearly 58 million people who receive Social Security benefits, an automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 1.5 percent will kick in next year. Thanks to almost dormant consumer prices – which Social Security increases are pegged to – next...
As waves of cancellation notices settle into mailboxes around the nation, President Obama comes face-to-face with the words he spoke many times over on the campaign trail: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it.” That’s not exactly the case, as millions of the...
For the 22nd year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly closed ranks in a vote to condemn the U.S. commercial, economic, and financial embargo against Cuba. The final tally was 188-2, with three abstentions. Only Israel sided with the U.S. Since U.N....
The exact motive that caused a 56-year-old Phoenix man to gun down four neighbors and two dogs before killing himself might never be known, but police have a suspicion it was loud barking. Phoenix police sgt. Tommy Thompson said there is “some indication that perhaps...
Two years into a four-year-sentence, the doctor found guilty of killing pop superstar Michael Jackson walked out of jail Monday a free man. Conrad Murray was released from a downtown Los Angeles jail just after midnight this morning. Thanks to a change in California...
If you’re a woman in the ultraconservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, hopping in your car to run down to the grocery store is not something you do. Until today, that is. Activists have been promoting October 26 as the day female citizens get behind the wheel and defy...
It might sound like a headline from a satirical news source such as The Onion. Former self-described Ronald Reagan Republican and Florida governor, Charlie Crist, has decided to become a Barack Obama Democrat in a renewed effort to re-capture his old office. Crist was...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is suspicious that U.S. intelligence agencies might be listening in on her cell phone conversations and that, if true, it would constitute a “… serious breach of trust.” White House spokesman Jay Carney was quick to say that the...
Apple Inc. junkies rejoice! The world’s favorite technology is adding to its line of iPad tablets just in time for Christmas. The thinner, lighter, faster version is called iPad Air, and its release comes only a year after the previous generation. Apple hopes the new...
