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By Bryce Covert on January 23, 2014 at 9:03 am " New York City Pantries Ran Out Of Food After Food Stamps Were Cut" CREDIT: AP After food stamps were reduced at the beginning of November, New York ...

A U.S. Congressmen revealed to NBC Sunday that an investigation is underway to determine whether Edward Snowden was aided by Russia in the theft of top-secret U.S. National Security Agency files ...

An explosion at an Omaha, Nebraska, animal feed plant has left at least 10 injured, with others reportedly trapped in the building. The 10 injured workers were taken to three area hospitals; at ...

Hurricanes are expensive. RMS, an organization that makes catastrophe risk models for insurance companies, knows that better than most. It estimates Hurricane Katrina caused $45 billion in flood ...

Global inequality has increased to the extent that the €1.2 trillion combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of the poorest 3.5 billion - half of the world's population - according

An all-out drone war seems inevitable given the rapid rate at which battlefield technology is advancing in this day and age, but a United States Army commander expects an arsenal of robotic warriors

"Mr. Obama, I work hard to serve American heroes, and I shouldn't end up with zero"

When economists talk about how a market "regulates itself," what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand. This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium ...

The Nasdaq plunged by the most in over 8 months today and broke all the way back to unchanged from the December taper decision of the Fed. All major US equity indices are now negative from the time

The apparent suicide death of the chief economist of a US investment house brings the number of financial workers who have died allegedly by their own hand to four in the last week. 50-year-old Mike