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Here’s some interesting green news coming out of Beijing: the city’s Olympic Village has become the first to win a green building certification. The

President Barack Obama vowed to protect and extend veterans support services at a speech to 5,000 members of the American Legion Tuesday in Minneapolis. While the president spoke inside the Minneapolis Convention Center, protesters outside were concerned with issues ranging from the environment to the war in Afghanistan

Of all the talking points emerging from the conservative side about the 9/11 trials, the prospect of attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed getting set free in

Despite Hasan’s reported contacts with an al-Qaeda-connected cleric in Yemen, the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and FBI will handle the probe.

Sportsmen aren’t necessarily opposing an anti-wilderness bill co-sponsored by three Colorado Republicans because they’re enamored with the Colorado Roadless Rule, which would likely be derailed by the bill after six long years of negotiation. They just want the ability to keep trying to improve the Colorado rule

Anti-Lowe’s protesters at Saturday’s rally A Saturday demonstration outside of a Lowe’s home improvement store in a Detroit suburb brought out more than 150 local residents and religious leaders and even one state representative — all of whom were protesting the chain’s decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality show All-American Muslim after receiving numerous calls to do so by the Florida Family Association. The group demonstrated outside of the Lowe’s in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where All-American Muslim is filmed

Michelle Rhee — former Washington, D.C., public school chancellor; supporter of the tough-on-teachers brand of school reform; founder and CEO of Students First ; and informal adviser to Gov. Rick Scott — supports the DREAM Act. # Rhee wrote this weekend: # One of the reasons I started StudentsFirst is because for too long our educational policies have focused on adults, not kids

The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey has the details: Days after Rep. Michele Bachmann launched a petition against the Association of Community

Tar Sands Action, the group that organized the massive protests at the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests, has announced the third phase of their protest plans against the project. The second phase, protests at events at which President Obama is speaking, is still ongoing. Phase three is slated for Nov

Laura Rozen reports: Days after Obama delivered a Nobel speech that struck a new emphasis on human rights, saying freedom movements have history and us on

We wrote last week at the Independent about the tendency of presidential candidates to put on a blue collar persona when they campaign in states like Ohio.

On a conference call just now, senior administration officials provided some details about their plan for detaining Guantanamo detainees at Illinois’ Thomson

The financial bailout bill failed in the House when no one -- not the president, congressional leader or vote counter -- had the influence to save it. What would LBJ have done?

Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score

The unofficial details of the deal carried between the New Zealand ADD 4 I.T. LIMITED and the US-based PNC Financial Services Group are finally available. The banking holding, which manages $300 billion in assets, incorporated the AI fintech team into its structure, paying only publicly $30 million for a controlling stake.

Pakistan became the new seat of the U.N. atomic guard dog's administering body on Monday, in spite of the very fact that it's outside a worldwide enemy of nuclear arms settlement and residential to a dealer who provided atomic privileged insights to Iran and North Korea .

A short essay arguing against John Searle's "Chinese room argument".

Apart from adulterated water, blackouts, and high tariffs, poor sanitation also conspires against local hospitality industry. In spite of these shortcomings, Nigeria remains a gold mine as far as the tourism potentials are concerned

According to Securities and Exchange Commission documents, George W. Bush was bombarded with classified details about the financial plight of a Texas oil producer in 1990 as a trader before selling the remainder of his shares and triggering a federal investigation.

This article explores the intriguing connection between tarot and politics, delving into its historical context, contemporary use, and the controversies surrounding its integration of tarot in politics.