(MINNEAPOLIS) – Should the United States join with most other industrialized countries and have universal health insurance, spreading the cost of health care across the population? Should we remain as we are, with a complex system that seems to make no one happy? Or are there other alternatives? Often this debate moves immediately into a welter […]
(MINNEAPOLIS) – Should the United States join with most other industrialized countries and have universal health insurance, spreading the cost of health care across the population? Should we remain as we are, with a complex system that seems to make no one happy? Or are there other alternatives? Often this debate moves immediately into a welter […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures rose Thursday after the government issued a positive report on the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, while fears eased in Europe over the deal to stave off a Greek financial collapse. The Labor Department said new unemployment benefit applications held steady last week at their […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures rose Thursday after the government issued a positive report on the number of people filing for unemployment benefits, while fears eased in Europe over the deal to stave off a Greek financial collapse. The Labor Department said new unemployment benefit applications held steady last week at their […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming. Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts governor, as he asserted yet again? Or did he raise them by hundreds of millions of dollars, as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum alleged? And how could Newt Gingrich have given the nation four […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty Republican presidential debates later, the head-scratching claims kept coming. Did Mitt Romney really cut taxes as Massachusetts governor, as he asserted yet again? Or did he raise them by hundreds of millions of dollars, as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum alleged? And how could Newt Gingrich have given the nation four […]
(MintPress) – Foreign policy has become a wedge issue in the Republican Party, and on both ends of the spectrum looking toward the middle are Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. The contrast in policies between the two presidential candidates comes during a time when Iran has become the focal point of foreign issues during this election cycle, […]
(MintPress) – Foreign policy has become a wedge issue in the Republican Party, and on both ends of the spectrum looking toward the middle are Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. The contrast in policies between the two presidential candidates comes during a time when Iran has become the focal point of foreign issues during this election cycle, […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew a rebuke from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise new tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House. […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew a rebuke from the United Nations and Palestinians and threatened to raise new tensions with the U.S. as the prime minister prepares to head to the White House. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday investigators don’t have to read Miranda rights to inmates during jailhouse interrogations about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration. The high court, on a 6-3 vote, overturned a federal appeals court decision throwing out prison inmate Randall Lee Fields’ conviction, saying Fields was not in “custody” as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Tuesday investigators don’t have to read Miranda rights to inmates during jailhouse interrogations about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration. The high court, on a 6-3 vote, overturned a federal appeals court decision throwing out prison inmate Randall Lee Fields’ conviction, saying Fields was not in “custody” as […]
(MintPress)— Protesters across the United States took part in the National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners on Monday, February 20th. The day of action follows a wave of hunger strikes that have swept through California prisons starting last summer, reportedly resulting in the death of one prisoner earlier this month. Hunger strikes, a form of […]
(MintPress)— Protesters across the United States took part in the National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners on Monday, February 20th. The day of action follows a wave of hunger strikes that have swept through California prisons starting last summer, reportedly resulting in the death of one prisoner earlier this month. Hunger strikes, a form of […]
