NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and a team of plaintiffs’ attorneys on Wednesday presented a federal judge with the formal terms of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars in economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London-based oil giant and lawyers representing more […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and a team of plaintiffs’ attorneys on Wednesday presented a federal judge with the formal terms of a proposed class-action settlement designed to resolve billions of dollars in economic damage claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London-based oil giant and lawyers representing more […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. NATO allies insisted they are not pulling the plug early on the Afghanistan war as […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. NATO allies insisted they are not pulling the plug early on the Afghanistan war as […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio on Wednesday executed a man for fatally stabbing the 15-year-old son of his former employers during a 1985 farmhouse burglary, marking the state’s first execution in six months. Forty-nine-year-old Mark Wiles died by lethal injection, ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty that occurred while the state and a […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio on Wednesday executed a man for fatally stabbing the 15-year-old son of his former employers during a 1985 farmhouse burglary, marking the state’s first execution in six months. Forty-nine-year-old Mark Wiles died by lethal injection, ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty that occurred while the state and a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House are targeting food stamps, federal employee pensions, tax breaks for illegal immigrants and subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care law in a multifaceted drive to swap cuts to domestic programs for big Pentagon cuts scheduled next year. The cuts are mostly familiar, though a plan to cut […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House are targeting food stamps, federal employee pensions, tax breaks for illegal immigrants and subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care law in a multifaceted drive to swap cuts to domestic programs for big Pentagon cuts scheduled next year. The cuts are mostly familiar, though a plan to cut […]
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal approved legislation that would require welfare applicants to undergo a drug test prior to receiving welfare. (AP Photo/David Tulis) (MintPress)–The Southern Center for Human Rights has announced it will challenge legislation signed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Monday that requires welfare applicants to undergo drug tests — a mandate the organization […]
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal approved legislation that would require welfare applicants to undergo a drug test prior to receiving welfare. (AP Photo/David Tulis) (MintPress)–The Southern Center for Human Rights has announced it will challenge legislation signed by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Monday that requires welfare applicants to undergo drug tests — a mandate the organization […]
(MintPress) – It has been dubbed the “Kids for Cash” scandal – two judges profiting upwards of $2.6 million for sentencing children to particular private juvenile detention centers. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to a trade agreement of an estimated 6,000 children where between 1,000 and […]
(MintPress) – It has been dubbed the “Kids for Cash” scandal – two judges profiting upwards of $2.6 million for sentencing children to particular private juvenile detention centers. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan of the Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to a trade agreement of an estimated 6,000 children where between 1,000 and […]
(MintPress)-As tax day comes and goes, so begins the automatic two-month extension for US citizens and resident aliens living abroad. To some, an extension is a relief, but to more and more Americans it is a reminder of the heavy burdens associated with international tax payer policies in the US – policies that have prompted […]
(MintPress)-As tax day comes and goes, so begins the automatic two-month extension for US citizens and resident aliens living abroad. To some, an extension is a relief, but to more and more Americans it is a reminder of the heavy burdens associated with international tax payer policies in the US – policies that have prompted […]
