Without congressional action to extend state and federal tax deductions, 11 million taxpayers will lose $17 billion.
As the year ends nine federal tax provisions will expire, causing some to pay more in state and local sales taxes. Most critics agree that state and federal taxes need an overhaul, but in which
Three fatal police shootings in Texas should compel the country to examine the use of excessive force by police.
Last week’s fatal police shooting near a San Antonio campus of an unarmed student highlights yet again the national issue of the use of excessive force among police.
The deadly encounter occurred after University of Incarnate Word campus police pulled over 23-year-old Robert Cameron Redus at his apartment complex for
While small in scope, the EU’s territorial applicability clause may affect the population of Jewish settlements, which now sits at about 520,000.
The European Union is quietly pushing for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, making it clear to Israel that Jewish settlements on Palestinian land are not a part of the state of Israel under international law, and as such any business with Jewish settlements are a violation of EU law.
This is the second part of the America’s Oil Epidemic series.
Mandela championed the Palestinian cause to end to the systemic discrimination of Palestinians in Israel.
The death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president, has sparked a global outpouring of grief and affection from presidents to prime ministers, to protesters and people on the streets of South Africa.
Mandela, the freedom fighter, prisoner and South Africa's symbol of the struggle against racial
The illicit opium trade has propped up the nation’s fragile economy for years, but it comes with a heavy price in the form of conflict and drug addiction.
As Secretary of State John Kerry negotiates with NATO and foreign ministers in hopes of persuading Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to let international troops remain in the war-torn country beyond 2014, is the U.S. also concerned with Afghanistan’s booming opium trade?
Despite years of U.S. and United Nations’ intervention,
The reason for the retraction wasn’t that the study was fraudulent, or it contained fabricated data, but rather because the study is inconclusive.
A row has erupted over the sudden retraction of a French scientific study that claimed to have found tumors and other problems in rats fed genetically modified maize and exposed to a common, associated herbicide. In a complete change of heart, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology is distancing itself from Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini’s
