Wall Street Bailout Vote Fails

The $700 billion bailout bill failed to get enough votes, leaving markets in disarray Monday afternoon. 205 have voted Yea and 228 have voted Nay. At least 218 votes are required to pass the bill. The House has...

Obama sweeps 3 states, Virgin Islands

Viva, Obama!"Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination."

Giant spider web spurs sticky debate

"Texas, USA Entomologists are debating the origins of a massive spider web, which runs more than 180 metres and covers several trees and shrubs, found in Texas. The web has been formed in the park over the past...

Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker

"Payback Time: FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker Perrspectives | August 6, 2007 This past week, the Bush administration added insult to injury over its illegal program of NSA domestic surveillance . During...

Power in Numbers: African Union Summit in Ghana

A vast continent rich in natural and intellectual resources, Africa is still an outsider on the world political stage, seen more as a tool and a market than as a viable player. The AU summit, underway in the...

Blogging: A Burstable Bubble?

I was gonna post this on my blog, but I kinda don't feel like it.But seriously, I think that blogging as a zeitgeist will definitely have a shelf-life, but purpose-based blogs and serially-updated watchdog sites will live on: basically, blogs with no reason to live will...

House seen debating gambling bill next week

"Reuters - The full U.S. House of Representatives is expected to debate next week legislation that would attempt to ban Internet gambling, a $12 billion-a-year industry that gets half its revenue from American gamblers, two Republican lawmakers said on Thursday."

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