Obama not ready for negotiations with Republicans until end of govt shutdown
President Barack Obama told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he will discuss the future of his Affordable Care Act with Republican opponents...
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Epic fail: just 1 percent of Obamacare requests successfully processed
Millions of Americans visited newly launched websites last week to learn more about the benefits offered through the president’s health insurance mandate, but Obamacare is...
US House unanimously votes to retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed workers
The Republican-led US House of Representatives unanimously voted to approve a bill which will see 800,000 workers furloughed during the ongoing partial government shutdown paid...
Monsanto buys big data weather company to boost yields and profit
Agriculture giant Monsanto has announced acquisition of the Climate Corporation, a climate data research company, expecting that its info will help farmers maximize crop yields...
Pentagon spent $5.5bn only hours before govt shutdown
As clocks at the Pentagon approached midnight late Monday evening and inched America towards a government shutdown, the United States Department of Defense spent $5.5...
‘Alarming’ presence of radioactivity found by Pennsylvania fracking wastewater study
Researchers have found high levels of radioactivity, salts, and metals in water and sediment located downstream from a treatment facility which processes fracking wastewater from...
Govt shutdown hampers treatment for cancer patients, including children
Patients seeking to enroll for treatment in research studies at the National Institutes of Health’s Maryland hospital are out of luck due to the government...
10 ways govt shutdown would hurt America
With the threat of a federal government shutdown hanging over the US economy, here is a handy list of the possible effects American citizens and...
Opponents score a victory in Senate against ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
In its short-term government-funding bill, the US Senate will propose an end to a budget provision that protects genetically-modified seeds from litigation despite possible health...
US Air Force once dropped live hydrogen bomb on North Carolina – report
The US Air Force inadvertently dropped an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. If a simple safety switch had not prevented the explosive from...
Syrian civil war has reached stalemate, govt may call for ceasefire – Deputy PM
Syria’s deputy prime minister said on Thursday that neither side is strong enough to win the country’s civil war. Qadri Jamil added that Assad’s government...
Oil spill dumps over 5k gallons of crude across flood-drenched Colorado
More than 5,250 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a river in Colorado, contaminating much of the same region that was ravaged days earlier...
World starvation as farmers struggle to feed 9.6 billion people by 2050 – study
The global population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years. University of Minnesota researchers warn farmers are unlikely to...
USDA program to speed up processing fails to catch contaminated meat
A meat inspection program which the US Department of Agriculture hopes to approve for all domestic pork plants has frequently allowed the production of contaminated...
Another Win for Monsanto: US Raises Allowable Levels of Company’s Pesticide in Crops
Biotech giant Monsanto has been awarded yet another victory by the federal government thanks to a recent Environmental Protection Agency decision to allow larger traces...
StarLink resurfaces: GM corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings...