Health / Disease

Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percent

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's owners now plan to sell 25 percent more shares in the company as investors clamor for shares in the year's hottest stock offering.

Facebook says in a regulatory filing that it will now sell about 421 million shares. That's up from 337 million previously. That ...

Evacuations and drills pared near nuke plants

Without fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.

The revamp, the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979, ...

World Bank “Lends” Hand to Population Control Effort

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:46
Infowars.com | Newly uncovered documents dictate that sovereign nations must implement population reduction objectives as outlined by the World Bank and UN Population Fund.

Fukushima to Blame For Mysterious Illness Striking Hundreds of Flight Attendants?

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:46
Natural News | Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants have filed a formal complaint about uniforms they suspect might be causing their skin to rash and develop lesions, and their hair to fall out.

Pennsylvania gets high marks for rein on drilling for gas

Pennsylvania over the past three years has greatly reduced the number of environmental incidents related to natural gas drilling, and state officials appear fully able to oversee the industry without intrusion from the federal government, according to a study released Tuesday.

Researchers at the University at Buffalo's newly formed Shale ...

Civil-unions battle uncivil in Colo.

DENVER — Even with President Obama "evolving" his way to support of gay marriage, the politics of the issue are playing out in complex and contradictory ways in the states, with potentially large consequences for the vote in November.

The 2012 state legislative session began with gay-rights advocates opposing an ...

North Dakota now No. 2 state in oil production

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the second-leading oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas, state officials said Tuesday.

North Dakota oil drillers pumped 17.8 million barrels in March, with a daily average of 575,490 barrels, Assistant State Mineral Resources Director Bruce Hicks said. That ...

Cheaper gas won't boost road trips

NEW YORK — Cheaper gas won't be enough to get many more Americans on the road this summer. They're still too worried about their jobs and the economy.

Economists and tourism experts are expecting only a small uptick in summer travelers. Gas prices are lower, but still high enough to ...

American Scene: Boy allowed to play girls field hockey

SMITHTOWN — An athletics committee on Long Island has ruled that a 13-year-old boy can keep playing field hockey on the girls' team at Southampton High School.

The ruling is a reversal of fortune for the student, Keeling Pilaro.

Keeling had played on the girls' team at Southampton High this ...

Leahy wants investigation into Arizona sheriff's tactics

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate whether the office of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio used federal grant money to illegally detain Hispanics, whom the government alleges were the victims of racial profiling.

If so, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, ...

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