In this April 19, 2012, file photo, people walk past Ho […]
(MintPress)—In the wake of the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal, a Brazilian woman is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy on complaints related to a broken collarbone, allegedly inflicted by three Marines and one embassy supervisor accused of pushing the victim out of a car last year following a dispute over prostitution service
In this photo made available by attorney William Howard […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress -- It couldn’t exactly be considered good bedside manner. Installing debt collectors in emergency rooms is just one of the methods used by Accretive Health in hospitals across the country, according to the Minnesota attorney general, Lori Swanson who released hundreds of documents showing that Accretive, one of the nation’s
Oum Jihad, the widow of PLO second in command, Khalil a […]
(MINNEAPOLIS) - After two decades of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, it is widely believed that the two-state solution is all but dead. Israel’s new opposition leader, and former military chief, Shaul Mofaz, who recently won the leadership of the centrist Kadima Party, told Israeli Radio, "The threat of us losing the Jewish
Demonstrators block a side entrance to the Wells Fargo […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from across the country descended on San Francisco Tuesday in an attempt to crash banking giant Wells Fargo's annual shareholders meeting. Several dozen people representing community groups had bought company stock and were allowed inside. Police said 24 people were arrested,
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently an […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace. In a groundbreaking decision late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a refusal to hire or otherwise discriminate on the basis of gender identity is
FILE – In a Feb. 2, 2012 file photo Federal Reserve Cha […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has given the public increasingly more information about its work and its thinking. More doesn't always mean more revealing. Investors aren't expected to learn much from the Fed's latest policy statement Wednesday or from its updated economic forecasts or from Chairman Ben Bernanke's quarterly news
