To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago.
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The reverse speak of the Koch brand of academic freedom became crystal clear this year with the leak of a contract the Charles G.
Reactions to the Justice Department's decision to file a lawsuit in an effort to block AT&T; Inc.'s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA:
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Five months after taking office, Rep. Stephen Fincher, a cotton farmer from a mostly rural swath of Tennessee, introduced a bill to mandate swift federal approval of genetically modified crops for commercial sale.
The Justice Department filed suit Wednesday to block AT&T;'s $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA on grounds that it would raise prices for consumers.
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Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so-called "model bills" reach into almost every area of American life and often dire …
Constituents waved signs and gave boisterous applause when one Iowan after another stood up and urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to strengthen Social Security rather than cut the retirement program at a town hall in Carroll, Iowa on Monday.
Republicans are big fans of projection. When they’re neck-deep in conflicts of interest, they like to hide it by accusing Democrats of such conflicts. When they leak stuff, they accuse Democrats.
Clive Goodman warned executives after he was jailed in 2007 that hacking had been “fully supported” by the tabloid’s editors, including Andy Coulson, who later became an adviser to David Cameron. In the letter, released by MPs, Goodman claimed that Mr Coulson h …
In Texas today, the American dream is distant. Texas has thehighest percentage of uninsured children in the nation. Texas is dead lastin the percentage of residents with their high school diploma and near lastin SAT scores. Texas has America’s dirtiest air.
Republican legislators picked up 680 seats in state House and Senate chambers in the 2010 elections. "They now hold more state legislative seats than at any time since 1928, the year that Herbert Hoover came to the presidency," says reporter John Nichols.
The Koch Brothers have seemingly limitless funds to devote towards any measure of fraud to confuse, dissuade and ultimately frustrate Democrats away from the polls.
Hundreds of state legislators from all 50 states have gathered in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, known as ALEC.
The Minnesota state government may be open for business again after a shut down a few weeks ago – but the legislators aren’t working on new laws. Instead – transnational corporations are.
Many op-ed columnists are calling these attacks on entitlement spending a victory for Tea Partiers, whose beef with big government has shaped politics for several years now.
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said he is ready and willing to slash entitlements like Medicare, because, in his opinion, Americans have to “come to grips with the fact that promises have been made that frankly ar …
Say hello to the Promise Breakers. U.S.
It appears that while the attention has been focused on the political infighting in Washington,perhaps more insidiously far reaching and longer lasting assaults are being made within our justice system.
As far as political personalities who hold no public office or have a job at a media association go, none seems to have skyrocketed to newfound popularity the way '90s staple and Americans for Tax Reform head Grover Norquist has during the debt crisis debate.
(YBH) – First it was Big George Webley who relayed a fear of the Murdoch machine and wound up dead. Now it’s Sean Hoare. Two British media whistleblowers.
HCL reveals News International's various requests for deletion but tells MPs it knew of nothing untoward
London police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World tabloid are broadening their investigation to allegations of computer hacking, they said on Saturday. A new investigative team will be set up to tackle the new allegations, reporting to Sue Ake …
By Stephanie Gleason, Dow Jones Newswires Thursday 28 July 2011 A federal judge Wednesday criticized the antitrust settlement that allowed the merger of Comcast Corp. and General Electric's NBC Universal, threatening to reject the agreement.
"Fox News dominates the ratings in prime-time cable, with popular hosts such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. How have they responded to their own parent company being in the news? The answer is they haven’t considered it nearly as much of a story as their rivals."