" NEW YORK (AP) -- As neon lights bathe the dance floor of the darkened nightclub, a group of young women from Latin America sit at tables, sipping water or soda and waiting for men to approach and hand them...
Now, when you see a warning sign at an amusement park, please obey it. I was recently at one myself and while I was waiting in line for this ride, there were signs throughout begging you not to stand during the ride....
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This video is just incredible. The person who took it buried the tape (it is unclear whether it was a tape or a kind of memory card) because he feared it would be confiscated. Why would he think that? Oh, just the...
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The meltdown in the US financial sectory had dashed hope for thousands of people and now the latest data released in UK has also painted a grim picture. "The jobless rate in Britain rose by 0.2 per cent to 5.5 per cent in the three months to July as the number of...
"By Jack Cafferty CNN Editor's Note: Jack Cafferty is the author of the best-seller "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America." He provides commentary on CNN's "The Situation Room" daily from 4...
The 102nd annual Farwell Labour Day celebration took place yesterday in New York, officially ending summer. The weather was great, and the crowds were numerous." Sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s made it a...
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Listen to this week's edition of the "Weekly Radio Spin," the Center for Media and Democracy's audio report on the stories behind the news. This week, we look at sustainable greenhouse gas emissions, the politics of...
– For weeks people in Spokane have been asking the same question, “What is it?” “It” has been on TV. Mystery billboards went up around the city with “It just works for me”-and nothing else. No name. No...
"TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A Japanese labor bureau has ruled that one of Toyota's top car engineers died from working too many hours, the latest in a string of such findings in a nation where extraordinarily long hours for some employees has long been the norm. The man who died...
Only yesterday the news came around that China overtook Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Japan slipped to third place with a GDP of 3.7 trillion dollars. Japan still outperforms the economic powerhouses like India, Germany and Russia by a wide margin. But...
"In an age when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly declares the Holocaust a myth, it is increasingly important to tell people the truth of what happened, and Tosia Schneidner has made that her life’s mission.“There is no occurrence that was better documented...
Sitting out in the car last fall waiting for Diana to step out of the last remaining department store in a dilapidated mall that had been dying slowly for a few short years, it occurred to me that the moment represented the collapse of our nation. This store was closing its...
Wife Sentenced to 11 years for Slave Labor and Abuse of Immigrants. The Husband, Mahender Sabhnani, in this case will be Sentenced on Friday a similar sentence is expected. "Working from...