Far offshore and a mile deep in the dark world below the Gulf of Mexico’s gleaming surface, the catastrophic BP oil spill of 2010 did untold damage on the ocean floor. But scientists are unsure they can do much to ...
Read More »Intruders breach US airport fences about every 10 days
Under pressure to prevent people from sneaking onto runways and planes at major U.S. airports, authorities are cracking down — not on the intruders who slip through perimeter gates or jump over fences, but on the release of information about ...
Read More »Airport intruders include potential stowaways and the intoxicated
An Associated Press investigation has documented 345 instances in which people hopped over, crawled under, drove cars through or otherwise breached the fences and gates protecting the perimeters of 31 of the nation’s busiest airports between January 2004 and mid-February. ...
Read More »Goodbye, empty nest: Millennials staying longer with parents
Many of America’s young adults appear to be in no hurry to move out of their old bedrooms. For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for people ages 18 to 34, an ...
Read More »Group: Police wrongly threaten homeless, order them to move
The New York Police Department is violating homeless people’s rights by ordering them to “move along” in public places, a civil liberties group said last week in a complaint to the city’s Human Rights Commission. “The NYPD has undertaken a ...
Read More »In Gawker fight, Hogan has billionaire in his corner
Hulk Hogan’s courtroom cage match with Gawker has apparently been bankrolled by a high-tech billionaire with a grudge against the news-and-gossip site. Two months after Hogan won a $140 million invasion-of-privacy verdict against Gawker for posting a sex tape of ...
Read More »Patriots join ‘Deflategate’ fight in court for the 1st time
The New England Patriots joined the latest “Deflategate” appeal to support Tom Brady on Wednesday, taking sides with their star quarterback in court for the first time in his fight against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell. In an eight-page ...
Read More »Missouri Senate set to scrutinize Planned Parenthood files
A Missouri Senate staffer is set to review Planned Parenthood’s internal records, including procedures for fetal tissue disposal. Republican attorney Todd Scott says he plans to examine the documents Thursday at the office of Planned Parenthood’s attorney. He checked the ...
Read More »In reversal, House backs LGBT rights for federal contractors
After party leaders let Republican lawmakers vote as they wished, the House reversed course and approved a measure aimed at upholding an executive order that bars discrimination against LGBT employees by federal contractors. More than 40 Republicans helped Democrats power ...
Read More »Feds spend billions to run museum-ready computer systems
The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They’re still using floppy disks at the Pentagon. In a report released Wednesday, nonpartisan congressional investigators found that about three-fourths ...
Read More »Probe: Missteps factor in 2 Kansas City firefighters’ deaths
The deaths of two Kansas City, Missouri, firefighters during a wall collapse last year was partly due to the department’s culture of aggressive fire suppression, the department concluded in an internal report released Tuesday. The 71-page report also cites a loose ...
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