USJobGrowthGrindstoaHaltinAugust U.S. job growth ground to a halt in August as government layoffs erased meager gains in the private sector. The Labor Department says American businesses added only 17,000 jobs last month, far short of the 100,000 job...
More New Authors Turn to Self-Publishing More and more authors are taking control of their future by self-publishing their work. In fact, more books are self-published than are issued by traditional publishers, according to Bowker, which compiles pub...
HomeConstructionIndustrySuffersinDismalUSHousingMarket In 2010, about 323,000 new homes were sold in the United States. Thats the worst year on record since 1963. The dismal housing market in the United States, flooded with abandoned properties and f...
USSucceedinginEffortstoDisruptTerroristFinancing The United States continues to fight the war on terror - not with blood, but with zeroes and bytes and bank accounts. The attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 launched a new kind of war, one wage...
New York's Twin Towers Appear in Many Hollywood Films For almost 30 years, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center graced the New York skyline. They were 110 stories high and symbolized strength and optimism. The monumental complex in Lower Manhatt...
Sitting in Two States at Once Is it possible to be in two places at once? It certainly is if youre in the southwest city of Texarkana, which straddles the border between Texas and Arkansas. In almost every regard, Texarkana is one community. But its...
Roof-TopBeehivesSweetenHotelOfferings Two chefs have taken the trend of buying and eating locally to new heights - up 10 floors above their restaurant, where they have three bee hives producing local honey for their menu. High up on the rooftop of th...
USGuardsAgainstTerroristAttacksBefore9-11Anniversary U.S. security officials are increasing efforts to thwart possible acts of terrorism in advance of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks. While the U.S. Department of Home...
US Congress Returns as President Calls for Action on Jobs Members of the U.S. Congress are returning to work in Washington after their August recess, with the nationwide unemployment rate holding stubbornly at more than nine percent. President Barack...
Libya'sNTCFacesImmediate,Long-TermChallenges A week after declaring it had moved to Tripoli, Libya's National Transitional Council has yet to establish a firm footing in the capital. It looks like it will be a long road ahead for the provisional auth...
Tropical Storm Lee to Soak US Gulf Coast The U.S. Gulf Coast is getting a major soaking this weekend from Tropical Storm Lee. The storm is expected to dump as much as 50 centimeters of rain in parts of the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi an...
Paris Conference Contemplates Libya's Future Leaders of Libya's uprising were in Paris Thursday with delegates from 60 countries and world bodies to discuss a roadmap for Libya's humanitarian, political and economic future, even as ex-leader Moammar...
Politics Overtaking Science in Global Warming Debate Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities. Thats despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only...
Economic Confidence Declines in US, Europe Separate reports on U.S. consumer confidence and European economic sentiment added to the volatility in global markets Tuesday. In the U.S., consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in 16 months, while t...
Drought Threatens Turkana Way of Life in Kenya The Turkana region of Kenya is one of the areas hit hardest by drought in the Horn of Africa. A relief organization says while indigenous people are receiving emergency supplies to survive, their traditi...
