A.T. Janos
Newly released documents show how the Department of Homeland Security can make use border crossings to search U.S. citizens of their electronic devices as they travel to and from the country, according to a report by the New York Times.
In South Florida, on the estuaries of Lake Okeechobee, there's a problem brewing. As swimmers head down to the shoreline, they see the signage:
"Advisory," read the one around the estuary, according to the New York Times. "High bacteria levels. Avoid contact with the water. Increased risk of illness at this time."
Okeechobee is no small lake: at 730 square miles, it's about half the size of Rhode Island, and it's the largest lake in the United States. And the problem it's creating is no small potato, either.
Up until 2011, Iowa was a "may-issue" state, in which the sheriff of each particular county was able to determine who did and did-not own a gun. But when the state passed "shall-issue" legislation, a uniform criteria was created that allowed anyone to get a firearm, so long as they had no history of mental illness and no criminal background. At that point, you're just an online firearm safety test away from getting your permit.
Scientists have discovered the world's largest volcano, and it sits at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It's name is the Tamu Massif, and at 2.5 miles tall and 400 miles wide, it's the size of New Mexico. Researchers announced its discovery in the journal Nature Geoscience.
In the wake of two-and-a-half years of bloody conflict, Syrians are being displaced in droves. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), approximately 5 million Syrians have been uprooted from their homes internally and another 2 million have fled the country for the safety of a better life abroad. Considering that the entire country's population is only 23 million, that's an enormous number of refugees.
For years, video games have been synonymous with anti-intellectual malaise: the slack-jawed Gen X teenager, staring at the glowing screen for hours, mashing buttons in silence. Now, a new study in Nature and reported in Forbes magazine may change the way people treat the cutting edge in home entertainment.
With a military conflict in Syria looming on the immediate horizon for a Congress already pressed for time, immigration reform advocates are worried that the issue of undocumented residents will fall to the wayside of an overcrowded calendar.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has surged to the front of the New York City Democratic mayoral race, garnering 43 percent of the vote in a recent Quinnipiac University poll of likely Democratic voters. His closest competition - former New York City comptroller Bill Thompson and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn - poll at 20 and 18 percent, respectively.
A federal judge rejected the argument that using the N-word amongst African-Americans was less racist than when the word is used by non-blacks, finding in favor of a plaintiff suing their employer use of the taboo language.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with the heads of congressional committees on Tuesday to press the case for a military strike on Syria following President Bashar al-Assad's chemical attacks on civilians inn the suburbs of Damascus on August 21st.
A flash flood swamped an apartment complex in the low-lying area of Cranston, Rhode Island Monday afternoon. Waist-high flood water filled the ground floor of homes, and several people were removed from the area as a torrential downpour created an emergency evacuation zone just south of the state capital of Providence, the Associated Press reports.
The Boston Marathon bombing went to court yesterday, with Robert Phillips, the 19-year old friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted by a grand jury for allegations of giving false testimony to authorities.
President Barack Obama announced two executive actions to reduce gun violence today, according to a press release from the White House this morning. Amongst these actions, Obama will notably restrict the re-entry of American firearms into the states after the government or other commercial entities have sold them overseas.
The details for the $52.6 billion budget for covert action, surveillance, intelligence and counterintelligence were leaked by Edward Snowden
Researchers in Greenland have discovered a the largest canyon on earth, hidden underneath the massive island's ice sheet, which remains frozen year round. The canyon measures 2,600 feet deep and 6 miles wide, a scale that measures favorably against the famous Grand Canyon in Arizona, according to an NBC News report.
