New illegal immigration laws for Arizona lawmakers have been approved with a focus on preventing racial profiling. The laws are expected to be in effect in 90 days time, pending a much anticipated approval from Governor Jan Brewer. A series of bills focus entirely on strengthening restrictions...
A Cape Wind project has been approved by feds. The first offshore windfarm has just been approved by the United States government after nine long years of intense debate and political argument. Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, made the official announcement from Cape Cod, Massachusetts,...
Americans oppose a new Ronald Reagan $50 bill. A Marist College poll on Thursday, April 22, 2010 found that 79 percent of Americans oppose Rep. Patrick McHenry's proposal to use Ronald Reagan's image on the new $50 dollar bill rather than former president Ulysses S. Grant. McHenry (Rep., North...
Earth Day 2010 is 40th anniversary of the April 22 event started by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. Nelson began the tradition, founded to increase environmental awareness and promote federal legislation to resolve ecological crises after visiting a college "teach in." Nelson visited...
Nuclear Summit warns Iran's recipe for atomic ingredients will be complete within a year. Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, delivered this news to a Senate Panel Wednesday. Burgess maintains that Iran could build one nuclear bomb within a year if...
Neil Armstrong launches anger at Obama's NASA cuts. One of the first men to walk on the moon has reacted strongly and critically to Obama's plans to decrease funding of NASA's space exploration programs. Armstrong typically shies from the spotlight since his famous moon walk 41 years ago but...
Michelle Obama visits Haiti for an impromptu stop over on Monday morning to see first hand the massive devastation to the country. This is Mrs. Obama's first international trip without President Obama following the January 12 earthquake that rattled the impoverished nation. The First Lady and...
The Nuclear Summit begins in Washinton, DC on Monday, April 12, 2010. Forty seven nations' leaders will convene at the Summit to discuss Nuclear Security in the wake of President Obama's latest plan. The focus of the Summit will be to formalize plans to keep nuclear weapons from terrorists. The...
A Northern Ireland car bomb explodes at Palace Barracks, Holywood at 12:24 a.m. Monday, April 12, 2010. A man reportedly hijacked a taxi, held the driver's family hostage, and exploded a device in a vehicle at the rear of Palace Barracks per reports of a police spokeswoman. The barracks are a...
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and several other top government officials killed result of plane crash. The President and several other upper members of Polish government were killed when their plane crashed outside of Smolensk, Russia. The President and others were flying in a Tu-154 and missed...
