/11/... Are you f*cking kidding me? The only worse date for this event wouldve been 9/11/11... On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, FEMA, DHS and FCC will conduct the first national test of the Nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) test. This nationwide test will kick off at 2:00 p.m (EST) and ... Read more...
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened an investigation into Google’s practice of saving about $1 billion a year in federal income tax by funneling profits from its US and European business units into countries with lower tax rates, Bloomberg is reporting. The techniques Go... Read more...
Murder of Gadhafi is next step to wider U.S. wars in Africa The brutal lynching of Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, is the latest criminal act in NATO's seven-month war of regime change and conquest. Gadhafi died resisting to the very end U.S.-NATO war, as he said he would. He refus... Read more...
More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren't completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois' 2011 high school graduating class - public and private - met college readine... Read more...
Earlier this week, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive. Though most regions of the U.S. saw decline... Read more...
It wasn't quite the Smackdown in Edgartown, but two leading figures in the national education debate politely collided here Thursday over the causes of failing schools and the best ways to rescue them. Michelle A. Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor whose take-no-prisoners stance shook up the ... Read more...
A Harvard-educated businessman turned educator who struggled with his own academic challenges as a child is Broward's new schools chief. The Broward School Board on Wednesday selected Robert Runcie, a computer consultant and chief of staff to the Chicago Board of Education, as the district... Read more...
It is a fitting message for the day—the reality is viral hepatitis does, in fact, affect everyone, everywhere. Consider, for instance, that three percent of the world’s population is infected with the hepatitis C virus, a leading cause of liver disease. That’s 130 to 170 million people chr... Read more...
As the men of Alpha Phi Alpha were concluding their centennial celebration in 2006, thousands of men in crimson and cream and purple and gold were gearing up for theirs in 2011. By the end of July 2011, two other historically black fraternities, Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi, would have hosted... Read more...