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...
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,...
The FBI has arrested Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year old Bridgeport, Connecticut resident in connection with the failed bombing attempt in New York's Times Square. Pakistani Faisal Shahzad was attempting to leave the country for Dubai after his car bomb attempt in New York failed. Although Pakistani,...
Hunting bears in New Jersey sparks turmoil for residents living in areas where bear and human populations increasingly interact. On Tuesday, May 18, 2010 after five years of collecting evidence and weighing opposition, New Jersey officials approved the first bear hunt scheduled for Fall 2010....
BP declines invitation to three day oil spill hearings with top U.S. Officials. Mississippi state House Speaker Billy McCoy and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant created the Mississippi House of Representatives Select Committee on the Gulf Coast Disaster in May 2010. The mission of the Committee...
Because of the existence of so many states, countries, nations, and other jurisdictions that have their own codified laws, it becomes difficult for such jurisdictions to maintain and exercise their laws amidst the laws of other jurisdictions. However, a legal tradition developed that allowed...
Osama Bin Laden hunted by Californian man. Officials in Peshawar, Pakistan detained a fifty two year old construction worker by the name of Gary Brooks Faulkner after finding him in the forest of the Chitral region on Sunday, June 13, 2010. When authorities questioned Faulkner, Faulkner...
Because of the number of methods that an individual or party may employ to observe, record, or take note of the private activities of another person or party, laws were enacted to respond to this form of invasion. The Privacy Act is one such law that addressed the concerns many people had with...
There are instances when a person is imprisoned unlawfully and may wish to seek relief from such unlawful imprisonment. When this occurs, the person may invoke habeas corpus, a legal action that allows relief of the imprisoned form illegal detention.Habeas corpus is a Latin phrase at translates to...
Al-Queda issues new attack threats against the United States on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Adam Gadahn, a U.S. born Al-Queda spokesperson issued a severe warning to President Barack Obama on behalf of the militant group. Gadahn ominously warned Obama in a 24 minute long message the death...
