The Minneapolis City Council agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who had a “flash bang” grenade explode under her legs during a police raid. Rickla Russell suffered third- and fourth-degree burns requiring skin grafts. Police were searching for drugs and weapons and found neither. None of the officers involved in the raid were dis […]
Marilyn Louie's newsstand has stood in the same spot in New York City's Chinatown for 35 years. But city officials have just discovered it is three inches too close to the building it faces. They say they are going to tear it down and she'll have to move. But Louie says the locations they have offered her are already saturated with stores sell […]
The Alabama House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill banning people from wearing saggy pants in Montgomery County. If it becomes law, the bill would impose fines of up to $100 for juveniles and $150 for adults.
The euro came with an implicit bailout guarantee. Market participants expected stronger governments to bail out weaker ones. The bailouts of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal have made these wealth transfers more visible. The question of who will be paying the bill decides the future of the euro. There are several possibilities.
Heritage recently released the 2012 Index of Dependency on Government and it found that dependence on government is at an all-time high . On Friday, for our “Lunch with Heritage” chat, from 12-1 ET, we will be joined by the author, Bill Beach who is Director of the Center for Data Analysis at Heritage. He will be taking your questions about depen […]
On February 21, Azerbaijani counterintelligence services arrested Iranian agents planning terrorist attacks against Israeli diplomats and prominent members of the Jewish community. This is the second such cell being intercepted since the beginning of the year. This is a part of Iran’s shadow war against Israel conducted from New Delhi to Tbilisi, Georgia. So […]
As Syrian tanks and artillery continued to rain indiscriminate fire on the defenseless city of Homs and as the world watched with mounting horror the final reports of courageous American journalist Marie Colvin, half a world away, in Caracas, Venezuela, a truculent and defiant Hugo Chavez continues to stand four-square behind the Bashar al-Assad regime. In r […]
President Obama, seeking to get ahead of a political threat posed by rising gasoline prices, mocked his Republican critics on energy and said his policies would help cushion against price rises in the long term.
The White House called for legislation to create a "privacy bill of rights" that would give people greater control over their data, likely setting off a long battle over how exactly the new policies will take shape.
Afghanistan braced for intensifying protests over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base as they led to the first American casualties and Obama vowed to hold coalition officials accountable.