President Bush today nominated 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. The 55-year-old Alito was ... Read More

Largely due to the costs and impact of domestic violence, the average cost of health care services for women exceeds twice the average cost for men, according to a new ... Read More

Every fall and spring, America's clocks go back and forth. Why? "Just as sunflowers turn their heads to catch every sunbeam, so too have we discovered a simple way to ... Read More

U.S. high school students who also work before or after school hours spend an average of 42 minutes a day less on educational activities than nonworking students, according to the ... Read More

U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) yesterday introduced a bill that would allow victims of Hurricane Katrina whose homes were not covered by flood insurance to retroactively buy into the federally-subsidized ... Read More

In a letter to President Bush, Harriet Miers today officially withdrew her nomination for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court. As reported here by CNN, Miers letter to President Bush stated ... Read More

Diabetes -- the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States -- now affects nearly 21 million Americans and more than 6 million of those people do not know they ... Read More

Don’t be scared now, but according to U.S. Census Bureau goblin counters, the first recorded Halloween celebration in the United States took place in 1921 in Anoka, Minn. Today, as ... Read More

President Bush on Oct. 25, signed this Executive Order further defining and solidifying the roles of federal agencies and their employees in the gathering and sharing of information relating to ... Read More

Kroger, Co. and its subsidiaries King Soopers and City Market, have agreed to pay a record $7 million dollar settlement for violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) by the ... Read More

President Bush today nominated his chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Dr. Ben Bernanke to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose term expires in January 2006. A former Federal ... Read More

Brazilian voters on Sunday soundly defeated a nationwide referendum calling for the banning the sale of guns to private citizens. As reported by Day.com (Brazil), with 92 percent of the ... Read More

Crawling along on the freeway, you think, "This city doesn't seem this crowded on weekends." Fact is, it probably isn't, according to first-ever estimates of daytime populations just released by ... Read More

Some 122 million Brazilians will vote Sunday in a nationwide referendum proposing to ban the sale of firearms to private citizens in a nation where guns are involved in the ... Read More

Notable press releases from around the federal government: National reading and math report card Bush talks about the national report card Interior tells ecology scientists to raise more money Al Qaeda bomb makers foiled ... Read More

In a 283-144 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives has given the final approval of Congress to a controversial bill giving U.S. gun makers broad protection from civil lawsuits. The "Protection ... Read More

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report on its investigation into the Feb. 9, 2001 collision between a U.S. Navy submarine, the USS Greeneville (SSN772), and ... Read More

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) unit of the Department of Homeland Security has received a total budget of $7.1 billion, or an approximate increase of 11 percent in ... Read More

Latest major consumer product recalls announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): Child Craft Industries Inc. recalls 155 child cribs Stihl Inc. recalls 6,230 backpack blowers Target Corp.recalls 176,000 jumbo pencils with ... Read More

The trial of Saddam Hussein began today in Iraq, with that nation's former dictator entering a plea of not guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Hussein has been charged ... Read More

With Tropical Storm Wilma strengthening and likely to become the season's 21st hurricane, NOAA has officially run out of storm names for the 2005 tropical storm season. Any additional tropical ... Read More

Crime statistics compiled by the FBI from 2003 to 2004 show reductions in the rates of both violent and property crimes. The estimated volume of violent crime in the Nation ... Read More

Latest major consumer product recalls announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): Kelty recalls 230 jogging strollers Polaris Industries Inc. recalls 16,640 snowmobiles Hewlett-Packard Co. recalls 135,000 notebook computer battery packs Also See: ... Read More

A San Luis Obispo, CA judge has ruled that the rights of boaters, kayakers, and surfers to view a California coastline free from homes carry more weight that the rights ... Read More

Some indicted politicians choose to lay low and wait out the legal process. U.S. Rep. Tom Delay (R - Texas, 22nd), however, is not "some" politicians. Delay is now using ... Read More

Notable press releases from around the federal government: Whooping cough vaccine proves effective Detroit drug kingpin arrested after 15 years on the run Simple fixes can save lives in earthquakes Missing WW II U.S. ... Read More

From Atlanta, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that its complex investigation code-named “Operation Long Whine” has resulted in the arrest of 28 defendants and the seizure of approximately 592 ... Read More

The Honda Insight hybrid, boasting a whopping 60/66 city/highway miles-per-gallon rating, ranks first in the 2006 Fuel Economy Guide, published annually by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection ... Read More

NOAA weather forecasters are predicting warmer-than-normal temperatures over most of the U.S. during the 2005-2006 winter months of December, January and February. The precipitation outlook is less certain, showing equal ... Read More

Notable press releases from around the federal government: Bombardier recalls 800 all-terrain vehicles Design Ideas Ltd. recalls 1,100 bean bag furniture sets U.S. assistance for earthquake in Pakistan Life-building chemicals are common in space Minutes ... Read More

USA Today reports that toppled and imprisoned Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein may actually be allowed to cast a ballot in Iraq's upcoming national referendum on adoption of the nation's new ... Read More

Employed persons in the U.S. worked 7.6 hours on average on the days that they worked in 2004. They also worked longer hours on weekdays than on weekend days - ... Read More

U.S. nursing homes serving Medicare and Medicaid patients will be required to provide immunizations against influenza and pneumococcal disease to all residents if they want to continue in the programs, ... Read More

Even with war-on-terror airport security, outdoor enthusiasts can take most hunting, fishing and camping gear -- including guns and ammunition -- with them on commercial air flights. Needless to say, ... Read More

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U.S. Army correspondent Sgt. Lynne Steely reports from Iraq that juvenile detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison were allowed to compete in an art contest in which they were challenged ... Read More

Notable press releases from around the federal government: Bush Discusses War on Terror, Iraq German-American Day Why That U2 Crashed on June 22 The Search for John Paul Jones’ Ship Unemployment Benefits for Hurricane Evacuees ’Supreme ... Read More

The Pew Charitable trust reports on a new electionline.org study showing that, while half of the states in the country will require the use of voter-verifiable paper audit trails with ... Read More

Vast Majority of Adults at Risk of Becoming Overweight or Obese Might as well face it, we're going to get fat. At least that's the gist of a new National Institutes ... Read More

More than three million people have already applied for the extra help available with Medicare prescription drug costs, according to Social Security Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart. The extra help will ... Read More

President Bush's nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court has predictably triggered pure political drama. Conservative Republicans feel Bush sold them ... Read More

Harriet Miers, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, has never served as a judge. While this fact raised a few eyebrows, it is not unusual. Former Chief Justice William ... Read More

President Bush today nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The 60-year-old Miers currently serves as Assistant ... Read More

In further fallout from the Cold War, the White House has announced that the equivalent of 10,000 Russian nuclear warheads have now been converted into fuel for U.S. nuclear reactors ... Read More

At just 50 years of age, he's the nation's youngest Chief Justice in over 200 years. He won the confirming votes of more Senators than any Chief Justice nominee in ... Read More

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is warning persons receiving federal disaster assistance as a result of losses from Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita to use the money strictly according ... Read More