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THE latte still reigns supreme as the country’s most popular coffee drink despite total sales decreasing from 43 per cent to 33 percent since 2016, says an annual report published...

Thanks to a wild shouting match in the Oval Office on Tuesday, there is a very good chance that there will be a partial government shutdown starting on December 21st.  With the cameras...

The smart display for video chatting gets a bunch of extra features in time for the holidays.

Bill died Sunday, December 9, 2018. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. In his memory, here is his last video...

The rapidly exploding U.S. national debt is about to cross another critical threshold.  According to the U.S. Treasury, the debt of the federal government is currently sitting...

In November, about 25 progressive Democrats were newly elected to the House of Representatives. How do the citizen groups know

Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org Dr. Chuck Baldwin has a very long and impressive resume (also covered in Wikipedia), including being the 2008 presidential candidate...

Russia “paved the way” for last November’s seizure of Ukrainian Navy ships by launching a major cyber attack and disinformation campaign aimed at Ukraine, according to a cyber...

The situation in Rojava Colonel Cassad, Dec 13 2018 Briefly on the developments around Rozhava on Dec 13. 1. The Pentagon said that the plans of Turkey to attack the Kurds Rozhava unacceptable...

As the United Nations climate conference nears an end, all eyes are on the negotiators  who have been working day and night for the past two weeks to come up with a Rulebook for implementation...

WASHINGTON — The democratic world is burning, and we have a president obsessed with a purely symbolic, trivial, and politically manipulative fight over a wall — a giant piece...

Use of the death penalty is still declining in every state, but two new reports from the Death Penalty Information Center and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty show...

U.S. Geological Survey https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5131/sir20185131.pdf [The Hill]  The first-of-its-kind U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report, released late Friday...

Why do Americans, who are willing to go all over the world murdering peoples and destroying entire countries in order "to protect our freedom," so completely unwilling to protect...

'Breatharian' Khai Ho maintains that he is able to survive for months at a time on little more than air and sunlight. The 38-year-old, who ironically...

The Ol Doinyo Lengai, called the Mountain of God by the Maasai people is showing signs it may erupt. This is the only volcano in the world that sometimes erupts natrocarbonatite lava...

The company's first step is to partner with its supplying beef producers in the top 10 beef sourcing markets to measure and understand the current use of antibiotics in its global supply...