Voluntary organizations are seeking cash donations to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina in Gulf Coast states, according to Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and ... Read More

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced special relief for taxpayers in the Presidential Disaster Areas struck by Hurricane Katrina. According to an IRS press release, these taxpayers generally will have ... Read More

An American Medical Association (AMA) poll has revealed that the most common source of alcohol for U.S. teenagers is adults, often their own parents. The poll of teens, aged 13-18, found ... Read More

In March 2005, half of private industry employees participated in an employer provided retirement plan, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Twenty-one percent of private industry employees participated in defined ... Read More

As Hurricane hurricane Katrina threatens the Louisiana coast, and with NOAA predicting even more dangerous storms this hurricane season, you might need to know how simple it is to apply ... Read More

Researchers at Sandia National Labs have compiled data suggesting that dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth’s weather more than previously believed. The data was collected during an analysis ... Read More

President Bush has proclaimed today, August 26, 2005 to be Women’s Equality Day. The entire proclamation follows: A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America On August 26, 1920, ... Read More

In "Michael & Me" a self-financed, independent film by Larry Elder, Michael Moore is confronted with some deep questions about gun control: "Michael Moore argues that America possesses 'too many guns.' ... Read More

The Department of Defense (DoD) has authorized the temporary deployment of two additional infantry battalions from the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, NC to Iraq to support security efforts ... Read More

The marketers and owners of "Smoke Away" have agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle charges that they deceptively marketed the dietary supplement kits by claiming they would allow smokers ... Read More

Publishers of the online version of Roget’s Thesaurus quickly pulled their entry for the word ‘Arab’ after Arab-American groups complained the entry listed derogatory synonyms. The online thesaurus listed the word ... Read More

Based on their exotic names alone - 'Smoking Dragon' and 'Royal Charm' -- somebody will surely make a movie about these two highly dangerous and successful undercover federal sting operations, ... Read More

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) report the discovery of a new gene, FANCM, which sheds light on an important pathway involved in the ... Read More

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that Americans who do not want to receive telemarketing calls have now registered over 100 million phone numbers on the National Do Not Call ... Read More

Bought your textbooks yet? Did you need a loan? Ever wonder why college textbooks have become so expensive? So did Congress. A General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation has revealed that U.S. ... Read More

President Bush today invoked the memory of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in defense of the United States' continued involvement in the Iraq war. "In a few weeks, our country ... Read More

When he wasn't reading about Cindy Sheehan, President Bush read a couple of pretty deep books during his Crawford, Texas summer vacation. The White House says their boss read THE ... Read More

From Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine at 77 percent all the way down to Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania at 42 percent, the SurveyUSA team lists the approval ratings of ... Read More

Reading on-line ads or job listings (92.6 percent of Internet jobseekers) was the most common Internet job search method between January and October 2003, according to the Bureau of Labor ... Read More

While 40 percent of Mexicans report wanting to come to the United States, a majority of Hispanics now living in the U.S. opposes increasing the flow of legal immigrants, according ... Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico and California as "majority-minority" state, in which the combined population of minorities exceeds the majority population. According ... Read More

"We are witnessing democracy at work in Iraq," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to the announcement that the team drafting the new Iraqi constitution had been given an extra ... Read More

Teresa Chambers, a 28-year veteran of law enforcement, served as the head of the U.S. Parks Police, one of the nation's top uniformed Federal law enforcement agencies, until she became ... Read More

The National Archives (NARA) has just released about 500 additional pages of records relating to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' tenure as Special Assistant to the Attorney General in 1981-82. ... Read More

Even if just by a little bit, the death rate on the nation's highways in 2004 was the lowest since record-keeping began 30 years ago, according to the National Highway ... Read More

On March 24, 1998, 13-year-old, Mitchell Johnson, along with an 11-year-old accomplice, attacked Jonesboro, Arkansas’ Westside Middle School, shooting to death four students and one teacher, and wounding another 10 ... Read More

The EPA has stated that its proposed public health standards for the high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada will protect public health for 1 million years. Under ... Read More

What really drives the U.S. economy? No, it is not war. Small business -- firms with fewer than 500 employees -- drives the U.S. economy by providing jobs for over ... Read More

Slightly more than 1 in every 10 individuals in the civilian population age 16 and over reported that they had used the Internet between January and October 2003 to search ... Read More

Facing growing homeland security demands, increasingly violent situations and chronic understaffing, National Park Service (NPS) rangers and U.S. Park Police officers were attacked in record numbers during 2004. According to ... Read More

Since 1997, the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls of Arizona have hooted and hunted happily under the protection of their classification as an endangered species. Then, along comes the Ninth Circuit Court ... Read More

On July 31, we reported here on the indictment and arrest in the United States of Canada’s self-proclaimed “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery, on charges stemming from his $3 million ... Read More

The Senate has approved by unanimous consent a bill that would create a national women's history museum in Washington, D.C. The National Women's History Museum Act of 2005 was introduced with ... Read More

Batten down the hatches, because the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just increased its already above-average predicted number of tropical storms and hurricanes expected to churn toward the U.S. ... Read More

A bill restricting the sales of cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and will be debated when Congress returns from its summer recess. The purpose of ... Read More

The IRS has put on hold its previously announced plan to close 68 of its Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) around the country. TACs provided a wide range of services to more ... Read More

The business of growing flowers, greenery, trees, and vegetables and of planting them in the landscape is commonly called the green industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), ... Read More

As anticipated last week, President Bush today bypassed the U.S. Senate’s confirmation process by using a “recess appointment” to install the controversial John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United ... Read More