Nov 06 Watch Urban politics shift with fresh faces elected mayor in America's largest cities Urban politics shift with fresh faces elected mayor in America's largest cities… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch News Wrap: U.S. poverty rate doesn't budge, despite new measurement standard News Wrap: U.S. poverty rate doesn't budge, despite new measurement standard… Continue watching
Nov 06 Be kind, rewind to remember Blockbuster Photo by Flickr user Josh Smith Rewind to a time where there was a Blockbuster Video in every shopping center. Pause to remember it and realize how much has changed. Now fast-forward to a near future where… Continue reading
Nov 06 From service to Starbucks: Businesses seeking to hire vets, spouses Photo by flickr user imacgyv0r The fighting doesn't always end for U.S. soldiers returning from war: finding a civilian job after completing military service can be its own hard battle. But many U.S. companies are undertaking pointed efforts… Continue reading
Nov 06 Think you'll never need a handout? Research shows you might Creative Commons photo via Flickr user Jlhopgood A mother of three with a recently laid-off husband, 25 year-old New Yorker Shenita Simon works full time as a fast food supervisor to support her family. She makes $8… Continue reading
Nov 06 School segregation is a thing again, according to research Linda Brown (front, center) sits in her segregated classroom in March, 1953 at the Monroe School before the Supreme Court ruled school segregation illegal. Photo by Carl Iwasaki/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. Almost six decades after the landmark 1954 United… Continue reading
Nov 06 Lost masterpieces from a supposed Nazi Trove of Art By Victoria Fleischer Hidden for decades, a fraction of the paintings, etchings and drawings belonging to an art trove uncovered by German authorities last year, was revealed to outside eyes at a press conference in Augsburg on November 5. Some 1,400 works of… Continue reading
Nov 06 Pour the egg nog but hold the rum: Index predicts a less vice-full holiday season By News Desk Photo by Flickr user Prettywar With the last of the discounted Halloween candy vanishing from retailers' shelves, it's now that time of year where some have already started to cue the Christmas music for holiday shoppers. But if you're… Continue reading
Nov 06 New federal measurements show 16 percent of Americans are poor Based on a revised formula, the number of poor people in 2012 was 49.7 million, or 1 in 6 residents. File photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- The number of poor people in America is 3 million higher… Continue reading
Nov 06 Polonium-210 found in Yasser Arafat's bones Al Jazeera exposes forensic results on Arafat's death?Access here: http://t.co/CEdxKHGddE #KillingArafat pic.twitter.com/5c7qTQ1lze— AJELive (@AJELive) November 6, 2013 Al Jazeera reported Wednesday that Swiss scientists claim to have found 18 times the normal level of… Continue reading