Category: US News
Crude Oil Prices Climb
Oil prices just seem to keep on getting higher and higher as today it closed at $110.13 after opening at $110.32. The prices for crude keep climbing due to fears of Middle East unrest as well as other global controversies ranging from the Japanese nuclear disasters to the budget crises in the US. Add to [...]
CNN Hollywood Staff Warned
CNN’s office building in Hollywood, California is still on the ready line and lockdown after almost two days when a warning was sent out that a man’s son had made a threat to CNN’s staffers that he’d shoot up the place. It’s like something out of a wild west movie like “High Noon” where a [...]
Japan’s Nuclear Plant New Threats
It seems like the problems just won’t end at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor plant as the US government’s own engineers have found that the structure is in danger of far more problems than expected. The engineers were sent to the plant to assess the damage and risks and they found that there are numerous [...]
Richard Branson Deep Sea Dives
Look out Atlantis! The deep sea will never be the same thanks to billionaire Richard Branson who has displayed to the world the first one man submarine that will actually be able to scour the deepest parts of the ocean! Branson will have a daring pilot take the craft to the Mariana Trench, the deepest [...]
Rush Limbaugh Slams Katie Couric
If things couldn’t get worse for beleaguered CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric, with rumors abounding that she’s going to be leaving her post at the network after five years, now comes in radio loudmouth Rush Limbaugh who says that Couric “destroyed” the network regarding ratings and viewership. Limbaugh went on his radio talk show to criticize [...]
BP To Restart Gulf Of Mexico Drilling
It looks like BP will be at it again as it’s finally cut a deal with the US to start deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico again. Some might be shocked as the last time BP was drilling it caused a massive environmental disaster the likes of which had not been seen before. [...]
Israel Peace Time In Jeopardy
We may be see history in the making as pressure is mounting for Israel to cut a deal of peace with the Palestinians as the UN may vote to allow a State of Palestine into it’s ranks. That would mean that Israel and Palestine would have to knock off the hostilities as it’s not cool [...]
Ivory Coast Massacre
Things just seem to be going from bad to worse on the Ivory Coast as it’s reported that the fighting there has now claimed over 1,000 lives. There are conflicting reports about the number of dead from the infighting going on which began when some attempted to reinstall the official president back to power. The [...]
New Jersey Teacher Suspended For Calling Students ‘Future Criminals’
Some teachers should just stick to teaching instead of posting pictures of their students on Facebook and calling them future criminals which is what one unlucky teacher recently did. The teacher at the center of the controversy is from School 21 from Paterson, New Jersey. The teacher had been complaining about the conduct of some [...]
Sweden vs. Denmark On Sex Trafficking
One country’s milk is another country’s poison and that’s what it looks like when comparing Copenhagen and Stockholm when it comes to the world’s oldest occupation, prostitution. Stockholm isn’t anywhere near as swamped with ladies of the night as is Copenhagen but that’s because in 1995 Sweden flipped the script on prostitution by not charging [...]
