Business Insider contributor David Seaman, one of the web's most-read critics of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), was let go by the news outlet Monday following a spat with NBC News community manager Anthony Quintano.
Chinese New Year 2012 will be celebrated on Monday, Jan. 23, marking the beginning of the year of the water dragon. Preparations have begun for the Chinese New Year festivities across the globe. In China, families clean their home, hang red banners with messages of good luck, pay respects to ancestors and begin to plan and prepare meals for Jan. 23.
Hope is diminishing that any survivors will be found beneath the rubble.
Wikipedia, the popular community-edited online encyclopedia, will black out its English-language site for 24 hours to seek support against proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said threatens the future of the Internet.
As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this frigid January Monday, we should also take the time to commemorate his misunderstood contemporary Malcolm X, who society refuses to grant the full credit his legacy demands.
Slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “March on Washington” in 1963 was, in fact, the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” And King would want the nation today to focus on policies that create jobs for all seeking employment.
The Canadian government's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is illegal, alleges a suit to be filed in federal court by a law professor and former Canadian MP on Friday.
Twelve people were killed on Monday in Syria where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes.
The cruising industry is as complicated as it is new. How badly will the sinking of the Costa Concordia in Europe hit Carnival and its competitors?
Let's from the get-go point out the obvious: Iran does not, even in the slightest, have any intention of quitting its attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. And why should they? No one is stopping them.
An exit from the euro by Greece appears likelier by the day.
Greece must urgently break a deadlock in debt swap talks triggered by unreasonable demands from its partners, the head of a group of representing its private sector warned on Monday, as Athens raced against the clock to prevent an unruly default.
Huntsman and Romney go way back. Both are Mormons, both have Utah roots, both are former governors and both are social moderates, so the two have been unavoidably compared to each other over the years. The endorsement, however, is yet another addition to a long and complicated history
The government had enacted a series of cuts to salaries and benefits, while hiking taxes.
Residents of Dimock Pennsylvania should know as soon as next weekend if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide fresh water deliveries to those residents claiming their water wells are too contaminated to use.
The National Federation of Independent Business is challenging President Barack Obama's controversial recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
The American Museum of Natural History will introduce a Master of Arts in teaching program, where roughly 50 former science majors will spend 15 months learning to become science teachers. Applicants must have a background or career in science and be looking to transition into the educational field.
The White House, in response to two online petitions, said it would not support versions of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that reduces freedom of expression, increases cyber-security risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.
Google has joined the nation to celebrate what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 83'rd birthday, transforming it's six letter logo into a Google Doodle marking King's famous I Have a Dream Speech
Is Ron Paul betting his presidential candidacy on a Nevada strategy? Coming off his strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire Republican primary, Paul's campaign has shifted its focus to the Silver State's Feb. 4 primary.
Jon Huntsman has announced that he is dropping out of the GOP presidential race, and will instead give his support to Mitt Romney.
The candidates vying for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination agree that the first imperative is to halt the flow of illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. But the relentless focus on the border obscures the fact that the rate of cross-border migrations is decreasing.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta visited India in early 1959 and travelled extensive throughout the sub-continent.
President Barack Obama is statistically tied with Mitt Romney in a general-election matchup, but several factors favor his re-election, according to a Fox News poll released Monday.
The search for missing baby Lisa Irwin continued Sunday as police teams searched near Interstate 435 and Parvin Road near Kansas City. Baby Lisa's parents, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, continue to maintain their silence in their missing daughter's case.
Jon Huntsman has announced that he is dropping out of the GOP presidential race, and will instead give his support to Mitt Romney.
Terror suspect and alleged Hezbollah militant Atris Hussein led Thai police to a warehouse filled with bomb making material outside of Bangkok on Monday.
Mitt Romney may have the endorsement of fellow Mormon Jon Huntsman, but Ron Paul's 2012 campaign is picking up key endorsements in South Carolina.
The AP office will be staffed by two full-time North Korean reporters under the supervision of two U.S. journalists based in Seoul, South Korea.
Americans honor the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday. King was an African American civil rights activist known best for advancing the cause of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. using nonviolent methods. Read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s full I Have a Dream speech as delivered on Aug. 28, 1963 or watch the video of King delivering the I Have a Dream speech.
