A power failure stranded about 300 passengers for a couple hours aboard three monorail trains at Walt Disney World.
The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.
Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics?
A Dutch court declared DSB Bank NV bankrupt on Monday, ending hopes the regional lender, which suffered a run on deposits, might be sold or bailed out.
Guaranty Bank became the second-largest U.S. bank to fail this year after the Texas lender was shut down by regulators and most of its operations sold at a loss of billions of dollars for the U.S. government to a major Spanish bank.
Guaranty Bank, a big Texas lender that succumbed to losses on loans to homebuilders and mortgage-tied securities, was shut down by regulators Friday and most of its operations sold to a major Spanish bank.
Regulators on Friday shut down Colonial BancGroup Inc., a big lender in real estate development that buckled under the collapse of the market. It was the biggest U.S. bank to fail this year, with about $25 billion in assets.
A small bank in northern New Jersey has been shut down by state banking regulators, and an industry advocate says he cannot rule out future failures.
With Chrysler now in bankruptcy court fighting for its life and GM slashing operations as it runs low on cash, owners and potential buyers of GM the car makers vehicles are understandable nervous about whether their warranties are still good. For now, at least, they're covered.
One in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before age 50, according to one of the first long-term studies to look at the life-threatening condition in younger adults. The research suggests blacks in that age group suffer the condition at a rate 20 times higher than whites do — an astounding difference more pronounced than earlier studies had indicated.
The stunning fraud Wall Street pillar Bernard Madoff is accused of has raised questions about whether federal regulators were lax in failing to scrutinize his operations and respond to alarms raised about them.
Air Force officials said Wednesday that a recent nuclear inspection found deficiencies in a unit responsible for 150 ICBMs in Montana, but added that there was no threat to public safety.
The World Trade Organization is running out of last chances.
This wasn't supposed to happen with deregulation. Electric bills were supposed to go down. Instead, Ellie Dorchincez can almost see the dollars evaporating every time she turns on the lights or opens the freezer at her small Farm Fresh grocery store.
Iran is ready to enter space, according to a report in Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.
We now have had two preventable terror attacks since the Obama Administration became well established in its policies. Both attacks were by Islamic extremists who gave fair warning of a mental state disturbed by Islamic hate.
Britain has been accused of being a "menace to the outside world" as American anger over the UK's perceived failure to tackle Islamic extremism intensified
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that "the system worked." …
Then there are the politicians. Even now, it's hard to get Democrats, President Obama included, to deliver a full-throated critique of the practices that got us into the mess we're in.
The Senate's healthcare bill is fatally flawed, a senior Democrat atop a powerful committee said on Wednesday. "The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," Slaughter wrote in an opinion piece for CNN's website.
(NaturalNews) Worry is building over the effects of the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009, otherwise known as HR 875.
The CBO already estimates that the costs for this new program will eventually, just like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, outstrip its revenues.
Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics with a huge financial portfolio in the carbon trading market and no qualifications in climate science at all.
I think he is. I think he has made a classic political mistake that Democrats often make, but seem unable to stop repeating. He is taking his liberal base for granted. He has decided that, no matter what he does, we'll fall in behind him and support him anyway. He's wrong.
President Obama is in love with the word, "unprecedented". He used it again to describe the nothing "deal" they finally ended up with in Copenhagen. What deal? I already told you that in my article this morning--describing exactly what kind of "deal" would occur.
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself. With the collapse of the banking and financial system, including the failures of the nation's health care system, one might conclude that this old adage also applies to businesses and corporations.
In New York, Beck sold 17 tickets. In Boston, another 17. And in Washington, D.C., the hotbed of political activism, his tearful film drew only 30.
- Marion County deputies are searching for three TV bandits whose getaway car needs a tune-up. It barely made it from the Walmart on Highway 441 near the Villages with two high-definition TVs, but they would have stolen more if the vehicle had started faster.
From early beginnings, confidence and esteem eternally revolve in a subtle reinforcement of self-worth, each aspect quietly influencing, yet being dominated by, the other.
A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the gue …
WASHINGTON - Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.
Baltimore, MD, A year ago before the election, I joined Newsvine to express my discomfort with the election and how it was going for Barack Obama. I didn't want Barack Obama to become President of the United States for various reasons but not because he is black (I am black).
While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated.
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said the world's biggest economy is suffering because of the U.S. government's failure to nationalize banks during the financial crisis.
NASA says the Ares I-X booster rocket used in a test flight was badly dented when it fell into the Atlantic.
Public Option will neither improve America's health nor reduce costs (bend the curve down).
Are the Obamanoids as dumb as they seem?Team Obama certainly ran a brilliant election campaign, but since they left Chicago for Washington, they seem to have dropped about twenty-five IQ points – or do they think the rest of the world is like Chicago? I'm not even sure it's …
Thiopurine drugs used to keep inflammatory bowel disease in remission may increase the risk of malignant lymphoproliferative disorders, researchers said.