By Tyler Durden Earlier today GM announced disappointing sales numbers, with March car sales rising only 9.6% compared to expectations of 20%. Indeed, this number

By Jonathan Spicer The names and e-mails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed

By Scott Pelley As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and are sometimes even

The Fat And The Furious: The top 1 percent may have the best houses, educations, and lifestyles, says the author, but “their fate is bound

By Christina Boyle Some workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant fear they may die within weeks or months after being exposed to potentially lethal doses

It’s a documentary which analyzes the Thursday 26th April 1986 that became a momentous date in modern history, when one of the reactors at the

The American Spectator celebrated April Fools Day by announcing that after the GOP threatened to cancel their funding, NPR replaced Bill Moyer’s show with Ann

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By Abigail Jackson Fountain House is one of the world’s leading mental health organizations, providing employment, educational and housing opportunities to people living with serious

By Bob Ivry and Craig Torres A Supreme Court order that forces unprecedented disclosures from the Federal Reserve ended a two- year legal battle that

By Hans David Tampubolon Three Citibank debt collectors [in Indonesia] allegedly killed Irzen Octa, 50, secretary general of the National Unity Party (PPB), on Tuesday

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By Sam Smith Not every change in national policy and events is announced with a new conference or presidential speech. A case in point is

A Wisconsin judge on Thursday did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn’t, forcing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to halt plans to

[click on the image to read OSGATA-v-Monsanto-Complaint] By Kelsey Volkmann The Public Patent Foundation, on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it was declining an offer from American International Group (NYSE: aig) to buy the mortgage-related assets it holds in

By Joe Weisenthal By now you know that the surge in silver prices has left gold in the dust. One reason: it’s just cheaper to

By Dawn Kopecki JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said some municipalities will need to renegotiate debt and a

A Geiger counter in Itate village, some 40 kilometers northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant showing radiation levels of 7.66 micro Sievert per hour. People

By Neil M. Barofsky Two and a half years ago, Congress passed the legislation that bailed out the country’s banks. The government has declared its

Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic

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By Alan Fram House Republicans plan to introduce eight bills on Tuesday that would each take a small step toward pushing taxpayer-backed mortgage giants Fannie

By Barbara Demick The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season

By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form

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By Mike Ludwig A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge

YouTube By Eric W. Dolan An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake

Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor. Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation

By Laurent Belsie The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other

Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson talks about the country’s progress since receiving a $4.6 billion International Monetary Fund-led loan. He speaks

By Peter Garnham and Lindsay Whipp The billions of dollars in yen sold by the world’s most powerful central banks have sent a strong message

By Jack Farchy and Roula Khalaf The international community has hit Mommar Gadhafi with a raft of sanctions and asset freezes aimed at cutting off

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By Sam Smith By the standards of the US Constitution as well as American and international law, Barack Obama is a criminal – as are

A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country. By Robin McKie Exhausted engineers attached a power

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By Greg Stohr and Bob Ivry The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme

By C. Powell The New York Sun today editorializes brilliantly about the ironies in the conviction of Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus. The editorial

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PLAYBOY: Is anyone asking the tough questions about Israel? THOMAS: We’re still not getting the full story on Israel. I asked both President Obama at

By Ora Coren The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday that those workers

At a time when all the tough guys in Washington are making plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for high-living seniors and to

With peer to peer digital currencies like BitCoin, it seems our ideas about what money is and isn’t, are in flux. Take the cell phone

By Ben Dowell The BBC World Service is to receive a “significant” sum of money from the US government to help combat the blocking of

YouTube (21 March 11) Related reading: Spinach, Milk May be Restricted The Daily Yomiuri (21 March 11) Residents Near Japan Nuclear Plant Urged Not to

Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss

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Opponents contend the state’s open meetings law was violated. Continue reading the article . . .

By Johann Hari The vast majority of people behave in the aftermath as altruists, saving their fellow human beings and sharing what they have. Before

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Once hailed as a solution to poverty, microfinance lenders are criticised for profiting from exploitative usury. The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist

By Kartikeya Sharma Japan on Friday raised the severity rating of its nuclear disaster from level 4 to 5 on a seven-point international scale for

By Beth Ford Roth The Department of Defense is gearing up to help American military families evacuate from the island where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear

By Justin McCurry Elite squad of technicians face fire, radiation and exhaustion in cramped and potentially lethal conditions to cool reactors. The men and women

Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Darius Rucker will be featured in a tribute to former President George H. W. Bush. The 41st President

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