Portal

4465 to 4480 of about 15026 News
Prev 1 ... 278 279 280 281 282 ... 940 Next
  • Musk and Trump Fire Members of Congress

    Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more
  • New Open-ended Military Engagement in Middle East Comes to Rescue of U.S. Defense Industry

    Tuesday, October 07, 2014
    With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, American defense contractors were looking at leaner times. Then, the Islamic State (IS) came to their rescue. The U.S. air campaign against IS—which has no deadline for ending—could demand between $2.4 billion and $3.8 billion annually from the Pentagon. That would translate into more business for military suppliers. “Defense companies are not being harmed by the current situation, I can tell you that much," said analyst Wayne Plucker.   read more
  • Increasing Addiction to Prescription Opioids Fuels Rise in Heroin Overdose Deaths

    Tuesday, October 07, 2014
    For many addicts, the journey from pharmaceutical fixes to street remedies like heroin is all too common. “While the majority of prescription opioid users do not become heroin users,” the CDC reported, “previous research found that [about] 3 out of 4 new heroin users report having abused prescription opioids prior to using heroin.” Two factors are responsibility: an increase in heroin supplies “and widespread availability of prescription opioids and increasing opioid addiction rates.”   read more
  • Is Science Helped or Hurt by Huge Lag Time between Scientific Discovery and Awarding of Nobel Prizes?

    Tuesday, October 07, 2014
    It is taking much longer these days for the Nobel committee to decide whom to honor for achievements in science. At one time, the lag time between breakthroughs and Nobel prizes was shorter. Before World War II, those having to wait more than 20 years for their recognition occurred only 11% of the time in physics, 15% in chemistry and 24% in medicine. But since 1985, such delays have happened much more often. Some scientists have died by the time their research was deemed worthy of honor.   read more
  • Florida has Longest Wait Times for Voting; Alaska the Shortest, but Results Come Slowly

    Tuesday, October 07, 2014
    A new report from the GAO shows Floridians, in 2012, had the longest average wait time in the nation at polling places: 34 minutes. About 16% of voters had to wait more than an hour. Alaska residents, however, rarely had to worry about cooling their heels while waiting to vote. Their average time before entering the voting booth was only 1.4 minutes. Their state’s delays come on the other end of the process—getting the votes counted.   read more
  • Bangladeshi-Americans Fight Street Sign that Honors Dictator

    Tuesday, October 07, 2014
    Chicago is being sued for an honorary renaming of a street after Bangladesh’s former president, Ziaur Rahman, with the suit claiming the move honored a ruthless dictator. Critics compare Rahman to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. “Said sign has been erected to honor a dictator that oppressed the people of Bangladesh,” the complaint states, calling it “an affront to the Bangladeshi Community of Chicago.”   read more
  • U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro: Who Is Margaret Uyehara?

    Monday, October 06, 2014
    Uyehara was sent to Frankfurt, Germany in 2008 as director of the Regional Support Center at the U.S. Consulate. In 2010, she was named management counselor for the Department of State at the U.S. Tri-Missions in Vienna, Austria. Her most recent assignment was as executive director of the Bureaus of European and Eurasian Affairs and International Organization Affairs in the Department of State in Washington.   read more
  • Airlines’ Ebola Screening System is only as Reliable as the Screeners and the Passengers

    Monday, October 06, 2014
    Keeping the deadly Ebola virus contained to West Africa is proving difficult, given that airlines flying out of the region are relying on the honesty of passengers and the competency of newly trained airport screeners. The CDC sent out experts to help improve airport screening programs. But a key component of the screening efforts—and what some critics say is a major flaw—is the reliance on passengers to be truthful about their exposure to the virus and how they are feeling.   read more
  • U.S. Strategy against ISIS in Syria Relies on Backing “Moderate Rebels”... Who May Not Exist

    Monday, October 06, 2014
    “You are not going to find this neat, clean, secular rebel group that respects human rights and that is waiting and ready because they don’t exist,” said Aron Lund. “It is a very dirty war and you have to deal with what is on offer.” In the end, the U.S. may be dancing to the tune called by ISIS, just as the George W. Bush Administration took Osama Bin-Laden’s bait and attacked in Afghanistan and Iraq, causing the radicalization of many in the Middle East.   read more
  • The Little Known World of Private Prison Transport: Escapes, Rapes, and Death

    Monday, October 06, 2014
    A woman died while being moved by a private prisoner transport service from Kentucky to Florida. There have been other incidents of transport officers sexually assaulting and raping their prisoners, and threatening them with a gun to keep them quiet. The lack of safety standards for prisoner transport has led to prisoners being burned alive in worn-out vehicles that have caught fire. There have also been incidents in which untrained guards have been held hostage by prisoners.   read more
  • Lawsuits Filed to Overturn Alabama’s New “Radical” Abortion Law

    Monday, October 06, 2014
    The law requires those seeking an abortion to present evidence justifying the abortion and proving her maturity. The law also charges the D.A. to investigate the case, bringing in family members, boyfriends and teachers to testify as to the teen’s fitness to make such a decision. “This law aims to shame a young woman into not having an abortion,” said the ACLU's Susan Watson. “Why should she be put on trial and treated like a criminal for a constitutionally protected procedure?”   read more
  • State Governments under Daily Assault from Increasingly Sophisticated Cyber Attacks

    Sunday, October 05, 2014
    State computer systems contain a lot of information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, birth certificates, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and banking information. Health records in particular are valuable to criminals. It’s not only a question of personal information getting into the public domain. Computer system breaches also affect the public’s trust in government and cost taxpayers millions.   read more
  • Outrage over Police Shooting Leads to 30% Increase in Voter Registration in Ferguson

    Sunday, October 05, 2014
    More than 3,000 of Ferguson’s 21,000 residents have registered to vote since the August 9 shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a white police officer. “It could completely change the political landscape, the power structure, the decision making,” Brown attorney Anthony Gray said. “The service to the African American community would almost quadruple because they would be viewed as a credible and legitimate voting bloc.”   read more
  • Americans Know More about ISIS and the Minimum Wage, Less about Poverty Level and Government Spending

    Sunday, October 05, 2014
    The level of familiarity Americans have with current affairs can largely depend on what the mainstream media is focused on, a new poll shows. The questions most respondents got right was that the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and that Syria is one of the Middle East countries partially occupied by ISIS. Only 20% of respondents knew that 15% of Americans live below the poverty line, and 20% knew that the federal government spends more on Social Security than any other program.   read more
  • Germany’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Peter Wittig?

    Sunday, October 05, 2014
    Wittig was named Germany’s ambassador to the U.N. in 2009. He successfully campaigned to win Germany a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council, speaking to 190 of 191 representatives in the process. Germany won a seat in 2010, but the campaign, while wound down, didn’t completely cease as the nation made noises about being given a permanent seat on the Security Council.   read more
  • Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Serdar Kılıç?

    Sunday, October 05, 2014
    Kılıç’s first ambassadorial post came in 2008 when he was named envoy to Lebanon. He was brought home in 2010 to be secretary general of MGK, Turkey’s National Security Council. He was sent to Tokyo as ambassador in 2012, a post he held until being named to Washington. Since coming to the United States, Kılıç has had to deal with various groups’ recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 100 years ago, in which the Ottoman government killed about 1.5 million ethnic Armenians.   read more
  • U.S. Airstrikes—Seen by Some Syrians as an Attack on Islam—May Push Rebel Groups into ISIS Camp

    Saturday, October 04, 2014
    The Obama administration’s effort to weaken the Islamic State (IS) inside Syria through the use of airstrikes has had the unintended consequence of helping the extremist group gain supporters. Syrian rebel group Abu Qusay publicly said it “won’t be allied with the West in a war against Islam” following U.S. attacks on IS positions. The attacks also might cause Al Nusra and IS, which have been at odds, to move closer to one another in a battle against the common enemy of the U.S.   read more
4465 to 4480 of about 15026 News
Prev 1 ... 278 279 280 281 282 ... 940 Next