Free parenting classes are to be trialled for all parents with children aged five and under in three areas of England, children's minister Sarah Teather has said. They are intended for parents even if they are not struggling with raising children, she said. About 50,000 parents... Read more...
Joe Frazier, the hard-hitting boxing heavyweight who handed the legendary Muhammad Ali his first defeat, died Monday, shortly after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his family said in a statement. The former heavyweight champion, who was 67, became a legend in his own right and personified ... Read more...
Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel spoke to a group of student entrepreneursat Stanford this evening, and at the end one student asked him what he thought the U.S. government should be doing to spur innovation. His response: "The U.S. government is socialism without the five-year plan. As a re... Read more...
A State Department employee was scapegoated for linking an already published WikiLeaks document to his blog. On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables haemorrhaged out onto the internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department caree... Read more...
The housing crisis hit Hispanics and blacks much harder than it did whites! As Congress and the White House wrestle whether to raise taxes for the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis of Census data shows that the wealth gaps between whites and blacks and Hispanics widened dramatically during the... Read more...