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thinkprogress.org Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill into law Tuesday to drug-test recipients of both welfare and unemployment benefits, making Kansas the first state in 2013 to implement the ALEC and Big Pharma-backed legislation. The law passed with a...
www.newsoficeland.com The Icelandic population is very small and all Icelanders are...
www.renewableenergyworld.com Imagine this: You’re in a developing nation with little access to electricity. In fact, you don’t have access to a grid, or enough electricity to keep a refrigerator and a light on and water filtered in your home. Or, if you...
www.guardian.co.uk Hospital installs room designed by godfather of ambient music after doctor observes calming effects on mother-in-law
singularityhub.com Though consumers have demanded a better way to secure their phones besides passwords, they may have had the answer all along without even knowing it: their body parts. Biometric identification will almost certainty become available...
www.bbc.co.uk A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.
www.economist.com SOME Israelis like to believe that Tel Aviv, Israel's bustling coastal metropolis, emerged from uninhabited sand dunes. But a new guidebook, “Omrim Yeshna Eretz”...
english.alarabiya.net Tunisia’s deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was given a five-year jail term in absentia
bigstory.ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) — A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.Authorities have not identified what caused the explosives that erupted...
rt.com The Bahraini government on Monday approved proposals to impose jail terms of up to 5 years for insulting the country’s king and national symbols.
en.rian.ru About 20,000 mercenaries fighting in Syria are financed by the proceeds of Afghan drug trafficking, Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service director Viktor Ivanov said on Thursday.
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com Former President George W. Bush has opened up about his recent foray into painting, telling the Dallas Morning News in an interview published over the weekend that he likes to shake up stereotypes. “People are surprised,”...
www.wired.com Law enforcement investigations can be pretty tedious. Hence why the ATF is seeking an automated database to quickly identify you and who you know.
www.kmbc.com Kansas City police uncover an underground suburb used by the homeless on the city's northeast side.
www.socialtextjournal.org The concept of a "jobless recovery" offers just one more example of the many ways that work is not working as a system of income allocation, pathway to individual achievement, or mode of social belonging. And yet, the only solution...
rt.com Over 10 billion pounds (US$15 billion) worth of food is thrown away in the UK each year while thousands of families struggle to feed themselves in a country where one in five lives below the poverty line, according to Oxfam.
rt.com Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week.
lens.blogs.nytimes.com Despite the march of time and civilization, small groups of Europeans still practice ancient pagan rites to mark the passing of seasons.
www.theonion.com Ri Sol-ju, wife of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un, opened up to reporters Thursday about her husband’s warmongering, saying that the Dear Leader’s recent bluster was totally uncharacteristic of the man she was forced to marry ...
www.cbsnews.com More than a dozen states around the country are jailing people who can't afford to pay their criminal justice debts
www.thedailyshow.com Anonymous lawmakers slip the controversial "Monsanto amendment" into a larger bill.
maplight.org The House Agriculture Committee debated and passed seven bills designed to roll back derivatives regulations that were created by Congress three years ago in the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. The top four commercial banks—Bank of America,...
readersupportednews.org 'It really isn't that radical a thing to expect this government to kill someone who threatened their authority and had the power to organize millions to protest it.'
www.guardian.co.uk Claims over Patrice Lumumba's 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Review of Books
gawker.com Ever since the New York City Police Department initiated its reviled stop-and-frisk technique, the force's laughable refrain has been that its officers are not engaging in racial profiling.
