While international media is abuzz over the discovery of the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, a glaringly-obvious fact was inconspicuously left in the article: the pot stash was part of the tomb of a blond-haired, blue-eyed man who lived in China some 2,700 years ago.
Chinese legend is full of blond-haired, blue-eyed people who brought...
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble
Shuttered homes and businesses in downtown Detroit, Michigan. American cities and states...
Waste in U.S. Afghan aid seen at billions of dollars
– Mon Dec 20, 5:55 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Waste and fraud in U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan while fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban may have cost taxpayers billions of dollars, a special investigator said on Monday.
US executions drop by 12 percent in 2010
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – 1 hr 45 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The number of executions in the United States dropped 12 percent in 2010, and the number of people sentenced to die is nearing historic lows, a report from an anti-capital punishment...
