Reuters / Mario Anzuoni The number and value of overdue student loans has reached an all-time high in the US as nearly a third of 20- to 24-year-olds are currently unemployed, according to a report by the Department of Education. With continued concern regarding rising college costs, the amount of outstanding student loans has now [...] ...
Boys from Eton college (Reuters / Eddie Keogh) UK’s elite school asked 13-year old boys to pretend to be Prime Minister and justify the army shooting dead 25 protesters in a speech to win a scholarship it is revealed. The question, which was put to students applying for the King’s Scholarship, worth one tenth of [...] ...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (Alex Wong / Getty Images / AFP) A law enforcement official says US Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the warrant that gave the Justice Department access to Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private e-mails. President Barack Obama on Thursday said that Holder would review Justice Department guidelines on dealing [...] ...
Reuters / Gary Cameron As 200,000 people prepare to march against Monsanto, the Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to decide if genetically modified food products should be labeled. Editor’s note: be sure to check out the official March Against Monsanto website and Facebook page The amendment shot down by the [...] ...
US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) President Barack Obama announced drastic changes to the United States’ counterterrorism operations Thursday, reforming the rules that guide America’s drone program while also expediting the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Editor’s note: despite Obama’s announcement, David Remes, an attorney for 17 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, said, [...] ...
Cameron B. D’Ambrosio A Boston-area teenager remains in custody on $1 million bond nearly one month after being arrested over what he said on the Internet. Eighteen-year-old Cameron B. D’Ambrosio of Methuen, Massachusetts was arrested on May 1 after police were alerted to “disturbing verbiage” on his personal Facebook page discovered by a fellow student [...] ...
Bennie Starks Bennie Starks was released from prison in 2006, after being locked up for 20 years for a crime he never committed. He is now suing the forensic experts who falsely testified against him in a case of sexual assault. Although Starks’ charges were dismissed, the 53-year-old man will never regain his lost years. [...] ...
A tribesman walks near a building damaged last year by a U.S. drone air strike targeting suspected al Qaeda militants in Azan of the southeastern Yemeni province of Shabwa (Reuters / Khaled Abdullah) The US war on terror is in fact the most massive terror campaign ever, and the invasion of Iraq was the worst [...] ...
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (Reuters / Chris Helgren) Julian Assange and a coalition of activists and journalists filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the military judge overseeing Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s trial in a bid to open access to the secretive proceedings. During the trial both access to transcripts and prosecution and defense motions have [...] ...