New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has rejected a contract between the New York City Transit Authority and SAIC, citing CityTime Scandal.
The gallery which is slated to open just before President's Day will be the only place in the world where visitors can see and touch all 44 US presidents.
By getting rid of cash, nations around the world might be able to significantly reduce organized crime and political terrorism since those activities are heavily reliant on easy accessibility to dollars, euros, pounds sterling, yen and other paper currencies.
Ryan dissatisfied over the way he was treated in his marriage
HP may play spoil sport for Microsoft as it plans to launch three webOS-based tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show, the venue that Microsoft has chosen to showcase its Windows 7 and Windows 8- based tablets.
Sponsors and supporters of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act were in Washington, D.C. today to urge the U.S. Senate to get past partisanship and pass the measure that will bring permanent healthcare and compensation to the approximately 20,000 Americans who are suffering from illnesses contracted while working at Ground Zero in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.
The U.S. Latino population, which several decades ago was mostly concentrated in the Southwestern part of the country, is expected to show continued growth and geographic expansion in the 2010 Census report.
Twelve Congressional seats will be shifting states in time for the 2012 elections, according to figures released today by the 2010 U.S. Census, and the most seats are coming to Texas..
Is North Korea finally, though momentarily perhaps, willing to throw away the mantle of a cranky child angrily throwing toys from the pram?
Top-tier law firm Clifford Chance has joined the bonus bandwagon by announcing bonuses that matches the levels of Cravath Swaine & Moore even as some law firms like Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Susman Godfrey have announced fatter payouts.
Columbia Law School has joined Yale Law School and Northwestern Law School in offering a fast-track program that allows students to graduate with a law as well as business degrees at the end of three years.
UK campaign to tighten immigration hits a setback, but the Coalition is set on keeping up its election promise. David Coleman, Professor of Demography at Oxford University, asserts that Britain should tighten immigration policy and explains negative effects.
Singer Shania Twain is now engaged to a Swiss businessman Frédéric Thiébaud, whose former wife Marie Anne broke Twain’s marriage back in 2008.
A number of intriguing storylines surround tonight’s Monday Night Football match-up between the Chicago Bears (9-4) and the Minnesota Vikings (5-8).
With time running out on the 111th Congress, two New York Senators are pulling out all the stops for passage of the James Zadroga bill.
New York-traded shares of China Eastern Airlines plunged 4.42 percent and those of China Southern Airlines plunged 2.47 percent in morning trading on tensions between North and South Korea.
Shares of American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE: AEO) are sinking this morning after Susquehanna Financial Group downgraded the stock’s rating to neutral, citing a sluggish December sales picture.
Google Inc., the company known for innovation, has stumbled in what was to be its main offering this holiday season. It has asked several of its partners to delay their rollouts of Google TV so that the company can further refine it.
The South Korean military has begun live-firing exercises on Yeonpyeong Island, the country's defense ministry announced on Monday. Local residents were ordered to move into air raid bunkers ahead of the drills. The move comes at the time of heightened tensions in the region and constant threats of retaliation from the North.
Despite mounting international pressure, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe would run in the country’s polls likely to be scheduled for June next year. Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) unanimously endorsed him as a candidate for the elections on Saturday. The party cadres, along with their leader, also pledged for a ‘harmonious’ ballot in 2011.
A roundup of celebrity reaction on the doing away of DADT
A new movie format developed by Tel Aviv University lets the viewer change the course of a film with the click of a button.