An independent federal watchdog agency has released its findings on the National Security Agency's bulk metadata collection program, calling it illegal and declaring that it should be closed down.
According to a recent poll the majority of American voters say they are unhappy with how the president is handling what they believe are the highest priority issues facing the country. However, if Obama can rearrange his priorities and fix the current situation in a few key areas pollsters say his approval ratings may increase for 2014.
So Justin Bieber is really in trouble now. The singer who received a "hood pass" from rapper The Game during a TMZ show, is officially a jail bird now. He is being held in Miami Beach for drag racing, resisting arrest, a DUI and they even found drugs in the car. Will this be the lesson Bieber needs?
While the United States and Cuba have a complicated past and an unpredictable future, it seems like there is some 'progress' with records indicating that Cubans are taking advantage of a travel reform that went into effect last year around this time.
They say criminals always return to the scene of the crime, but one criminal from Pennsylvania made a more modern and even stupider mistake by returning to social media.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games take place February 7 to 23. The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games take place Feb. 7 to 23. That's only a couple of weeks away, but security remains a concern for host country Russia.
A pair of Las Vegas hotel & casinos are among the first in the world to adopt a new high-tech alternative to traditional payment methods as they take a gamble to allow guests to foot their bills using bitcoin.
Although the alcohol prohibition era has long since come to an end, marijuana prohibition remains intact since its inception in 1932 with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act.
Imagine you are swimming alongside your family, and you are captured, corralled, wrestled, driven over, and harpooned, all while witnessing slaughter all around you as you swim frantically in a sea of crimson red, trying to escape.
Although this may sound horribly graphic and traumatizing, this is what's occurring to hundreds of pods of bottlenose dolphins every year in an annual hunt that takes place in a cove in Taiji, Japan.
He tries at first then just ad-libs a jig Arizona Young Single Adults, which is a Latter-Day Saints organization, also known as Mormons, had Mitt Romney and his wife as guests of honor at a conference in Tempe among other distinguished guests like the president of ASU.
It looks like Foxy Knoxy will have one more chance to prove her innocence, as prosecutors in her retrial in Italy are ready the final rebuttals from the defense before the case goes to the judges for decision.
Sarah Palin can't seem to help herself these days: she told Barack Obama, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, that he needs to stop playing the race card!
Ahead of the polar vortex that will bring with it sub-zero temperatures to much of the eastern United States a widespread snow storm is slated to hit the east coast on Tuesday. Heavy snow will slam the mid-Atlantic from the Virginia/Washington D.C. area up the coast as far north as Boston.
President Obama's choice to lead the Small Business Administration (SBA), an agency that provides contracts and loans to help small business gain government contracts, is former California official Maria Contretras-Sweet. Her official nomination was announced at a White House event last Thursday. She is the second Hispanic nomination to Obama's second-term cabinet, preceded by Labor Secretary Tom Perez. And, she will be the eighth woman in Obama's current cabinet.
Carbon from the deceased turned into diamonds Innovative companies in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States are racing to patent procedures to turn human hair or ashes of the deceased into memorial jewelry, a service which costs up to $25,000.
After the news was broken last week that Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, the remaining members of what was arguably the most legendary rock band in musical history will both be performing at this year’s Grammy Award show, America has been ripe with speculation of a reunion performance during the show.
Japan is shedding the restraints that bound it after the Second World War The ruling party of Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party, removed its pledge against war from its working policy revealed yesterday at the eighty-first annual convention of the party in Tokyo.