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leaving it just two votes shy of the 60 it needed. The bill would have ended the controversial phone record metadata collection by the NSA, but the Senate was not in favor of rolling back any of the NSA's broad surveillance powers. USA Freedom Act for NSA reform is voted down in the Senate |...

In a significant shift, federal safety regulators on Tuesday called on automakers to conduct a nationwide recall of vehicles that contain driver’s-side airbags made by the Japanese supplier Takata. The agency said it had yet to make a detailed list of the models or model years affected. But...

Criminal sexual conduct charges brought against John Robert Lind were dismissed earlier this month even though police say he admitted ejaculating in his co-worker's coffee on at least two occasions. Judge Patrick Diamond wrote that the charges of fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct and...

When a couple left scathing comments on a travel review website that a hotel in northern England they had stayed at was a “filthy, dirty rotten stinking hovel,” they thought no more about it. But Tony and Jan Jenkinson were shocked later to see an extra £100 ($156) added to their credit card...

“Difference of opinions, difference of religion, different ideas - we follow the word for what it is, what the bible says,” said Mark Jerome, who attends the Followers of Christ Church in Marsing, Idaho. The same last names appear over and again, going back decades. Some - like Beagley -...

What a difference between the money grubbers and someone who truly wants to help............... A NFL player has left behind his $37 million contract in order to do something he has never done before: become a North Carolina farmer. According to CBS News, St. Louis Rams center Jason...

While the country focuses on the pending Senate vote to approve or reject the Keystone XL pipeline, another Canadian company is quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will significantly raise the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S. The company is pressing ahead...

The Royal Canadian Legion in Kenora, Ont., accepted the resignation of its chaplain on Monday, after some members and the local Conservative MP complained her remarks about Veterans Affairs and Afghanistan War veterans at a Remembrance Day service were too political. During the Nov. 11 legion...

A jury has awarded a local mother more than $185 million in damages in a pregnancy and gender discrimination case against her former employer AutoZone. "I cry constantly because someone had heard my story," said Rosario Juarez, choking back tears. "Someone has heard and knows what I said was...

Firestone wanted Liberia for its rubber. Taylor wanted Firestone to help his rise to power. At a pivotal meeting in Liberia’s jungles in July 1991, the company agreed to do business with the warlord. In the first detailed examination of the relationship between Firestone and Taylor, an...

Obama Derangement Syndrome may have reached a new peak last week when President Obama was literally criticized for walking and chewing gum at the same time. As everyone knows, President Obama has long struggled to kick his smoking habit (Marlboros, not Newports), and drew jeers from Chinese...

Walton Family, Owners of Walmart, Using Their Billions To Attack Rooftop Solar A recent trend has seen utilities deciding that since they haven't been able to beat back the rise of rooftop solar companies, they might as well join them (or at least steal their business model). But the...

Hosting a G20 summit is supposed to be prestigious. You get the leaders of the world's largest economies to come to your country, to gather in your town, to discuss the great problems of the day. As host you even get to set the agenda for the summit. You get to steer all those big wigs and...

Peter MacKay’s online spying Bill C-13 will enable authorities to monitor the private lives of innocent Canadians, without any real oversight. It will give telecom providers legal immunity for handing over your private information to the government without a warrant and without any oversight...

A St. Louis woman was sentenced Friday to 78 years in prison after admitting to beating, whipping and waterboarding her children in a prolonged pattern of abuse that prosecutors described as "systematic torture." Lakechia Schonta Stanley, 34, of St. Louis, faced 34 felonies, including multiple...

A woman shouting “leave our churches alone” disrupted the first Muslim prayer service hosted by Washington National Cathedral. Planners had said they hoped Friday’s service at the historic cathedral would foster more understanding and acceptance between Christians and Muslims around the world...

After Satanists Plan to Give Away Coloring Books, School Board Considers Banning Religious Distributions Altogether: "It’s like the nuclear option of church/state separation cases. When nothing else works, count on Satanists to settle the matter!" In January of 2013, World Changers of...

“We made a pact with his brothers never to say it. It just hurts too much. When you say the word, it stings,” she said. Doctors diagnosed Skelling with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in May 2012 and told him his days were numbered. “It was unimaginable, the pain, the powerlessness,” Veilleux recalled...

“Over the past decades, the Protestant churches in China have developed very quickly with the implementation of the country’s religious policy. In the future, we will continue to boost the development of Christianity in China,” said Wang Zuoan, director of the State Administration for Religious...