A South Korean employee sets out packs of domestic beef […]
HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A non-descript building in the heart of California's dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny now that mad cow disease has been discovered in a dead dairy cow. The finding, announced Tuesday, is the first new case of the disease in the U.S. since 2006 — and the fact that the discovery was made at all was a
This photo combo shows President Barack Obama in Chapel […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms. Democrats unveiled their
French Socialist Party former first secretary and candi […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress — President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday became the first president in modern day France to lose the first round of his re-election campaign. The victor was the Socialist Party candidate, Francois Hollande, who won nearly 29 percent of the vote compared to the 27.1 percent that went to Sarkozy, head of the Union for a Popular
(MintPress) – America’s largest media companies are veh […]
(MintPress) – America’s largest media companies are vehemently opposing a proposition by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would require media outlets to detail political advertisements run by the company in an online database. Outlets would be required to disclose the purchaser of an ad, when the ad ran and how much the ad was
Protesters march to the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt., […]
(MintPress)-The Vermont state legislature is inching closer to passing a bill requiring labels on all products containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs); but advocates are concerned that powerful agribusiness firms, like Monsanto, will succeed in stalling the bill and blocking consumers’ rights to know what is in their food. “Today, 80
A protester sitting on Seventh Street is led away by po […]
(MintPress)—Days after a study revealed the number of Mexican immigrants was at a 10-year-low, the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s immigration reform legislation — a case that will set a precedent in a time of growing nationwide frustration in the battle over federal and state power in immigration
