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Jan 27, 2012 – MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus. Newspapers are warning of an alarming increase in cases while the government insists there is no...

Jan 27, 2012 – With just weeks until the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law, there are new calls for Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from the case. Her critics point to a 2010 case regarding a San Francisco health measure, in which then-Solicitor General Kagan's...

Jan 27, 2012 – SALT LAKE CITY – Two Utah high school students plotted to set off explosives during a school assembly and steal a plane to make their getaway, police said Thursday. The students prepared by logging hundreds of hours on flight simulator software on their home computers, and they planned...

Jan 27, 2012 – WASHINGTON – The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. New York-based Ener1 said it has been affected by competition from China and other countries. Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel...

Jan 27, 2012 – Editor's note: posted by Leah Barkoukis   If anything (aside from substance) was missing from President Obama’s SOTU address on Tuesday evening, it was any considerable discussion of Obamacare. Since the president first stepped foot in the Oval Office, health care is almost all the public heard about....

Jan 27, 2012 – AURORA, Ky. – Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear on Friday promised speedy work to begin replacing a bridge that partially collapsed when it was struck by a cargo ship too tall to pass beneath the structure. Two spans of the Eggner Ferry Bridge at US 68 and Kentucky 80...

Jan 27, 2012 – UNITED NATIONS — If you are a United Nations diplomat missing 30 pounds of cocaine, it is now in the hands of the New York Police Department. The shipment turned up last week in the mailroom of the world body, where phony diplomatic pouches into which the drug had...

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Jan 26, 2012 – Talk about turning over a new leaf in the classroom. As New York lawmakers consider a bill that would make cheating on the SAT college entrance exam a felony, one company thinks the answer to thwarting testing fraud can be found in molecules of plant DNA embedded into a...

Jan 26, 2012 – Hugo Chavez's daughter is sparking controversy after posting a photo of herself holding a wad of US dollars online. Rosines Chavez, 14, posted a photo of herself on her Instagram account peering over a handful of US dollars, which are tightly controlled in Venezuela under her father's regime, the...

Jan 26, 2012 – Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first time on Europe's chances of saving Greece from financial meltdown and sovereign default, conceding that Europe's first ever multibillion euro bailout coupled with savage austerity was not working after a two-year crisis that has brought the single currency to the brink of...

Jan 26, 2012 – Editor's note: This piece was authored by Brion McClanahan. In case you missed it, and many did, President Barack Obama gave his annual “State of the Union” address last night. All the pageantry, the pomp…the demagoguery, what’s not to watch? In light of President Obama’s promises and agenda, perhaps...

Jan 25, 2012 – Editor's Note: This column was authored by Todd Tiahrt. One didn’t need to be a political insider to know that in this year’s State of the Union the president would address the public’s concern over scarcity of jobs and an unsteady economy. Attempts to assuage these worries included overviews...

Jan 25, 2012 – So far, during the presidency of Barack Obama, the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the same period, the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up...

Jan 25, 2012 – WASHINGTON - From postal workers to congressional staffers, federal workers failed to pay billions in taxes in 2010. According to records released by the Internal Revenue Service, active and retired federal employees and military personnel combined owed $3,420,168,684 in unpaid taxes for 2010, an increase of more than 3 percent...

Jan 25, 2012 – Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed President Obama's State of the Union address as "just another campaign speech" and said the president wasn't sincere about wanting to work with Congress during an interview Wednesday on the "Laura Ingraham Show." "The president acted last night as if this was the...

Jan 25, 2012 – In tactics similar to ones used by a former ACORN group in New York City during the Occupy Wall Street movement, a Chicago-based not-for-profit paid people to attend protests that backed the closing of public schools. Two of the “rent-a-protestors” reportedly blew the whistle on the Hope Organization, claiming...

Jan 25, 2012 – Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web. The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine. Google has...

Jan 25, 2012 – Rather than deal with the complexities of U.S. tax law, Americans living overseas are increasingly renouncing their citizenship in order to avoid paying their income taxes. According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, approximately 4,000 people gave up their citizenship from fiscal year 2005 to FY 2010....

Jan 25, 2012 – What gets into a State of Union matters. What doesn’t matters too — sometimes just as much. President Barack Obama embraced his base Tuesday night by affirming his commitment to Israel, clean energy, economic equality and immigration. He also placated his supporters by avoiding a few sensitive subjects....

Jan 25, 2012 – WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it was likely to raise interest rates at the end of 2014, but not until then, adding another 18 months to the expected duration of its most basic and longest-running response to the financial crisis. The announcement means that the...

Jan 25, 2012 – Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said he doesn’t expect President Barack Obama to ask him to stay in office if he’s re-elected, and he dismissed Wall Street’s concerns about financial regulations. “He’s not going to ask me to stay on, I’m pretty confident,” Geithner said in an interview with...