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Holiday Hiring: Older vs. Younger Workers for Jobs

This Halloween, there's an extra supply of gray hair and wrinkles at Party City, a costume and novelty store on Route 4 in Paramus, N.J.

NYPD cop Michael Daragjati taped making racial slurs about black man; accused of false arrest

A racial epithet-spewing NYPD cop was ordered held without bail Monday on charges of fabricating criminal charges against a black man on Staten Island. "I fried another n-----," Officer Michael Daragjati crowed last April, according to a transcript of a phone conversation int …

Another Gay Teen Commits Suicide, Leaves Last Message on Blog

Jamie Hubley, a gay 15-year-old from Ottawa, Canada, committed suicide on Friday. The 10th grade student documented his life, including his depression and the hardships of being a gay teen, in a blog, reports the Ottawa Citizen. The blog, called "You Can't Break...

Target Manager Says He Was Fired For Working Too Hard

An 8-year veteran of Target stores has accused the retailer of firing him for working through his lunch break against company policy. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Jason Kellner, a former manager at the company's Oxford, Ala., store, claims he was let go after supervisors …

Representative Joe Walsh's Fiscal Message Clashes With His Finances - NYTimes.com

Representative Joe Walsh, a freshman from Illinois, deriding his colleagues once again for their poor stewardship of the economy. During the debt ceiling debate, Mr. Walsh took to the airwaves to call President Obama a liar for suggesting that the nation might default.

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD

Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement.  Ryan says he's done contract work for the U.S.

Anwar al-Awlaki’s family speaks out against his, son’s deaths - The Washington Post

In the days before a CIA drone strike killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki last month, his 16-year-old son ran away from the family home in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa to try to find him, relatives say. When he, too, was killed in a U.S.

Baby Lisa Irwin's Parents Hire Joe Tacopina, Attorney Who Defended Joran Van Der Sloot

 The mother of a missing Kansas City baby said Monday that she was drunk when her daughter disappeared, may have blacked out and actually last saw the child hours before the time she originally told police she checked on her. The revelations came hours before a New Yor …

Kalle Lasn: "The Brains Behind Occupy Wall Street"

This isn't the 60s. And it isn't the pre-Iraq War protests either. Occupy Wall Street, supposedly, is different. It has no leader. It has no political action committee behind it. One can argue that the protests against Wall Street this month really started in Tunisia.

Corbin Hiar: Before Obama Retreat on Ozone, EPA Chief Warned of Illnesses and Deaths

Obama, under pressure from business groups and Republicans, abruptly shelved the planned rule on Sept. 2.

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