An estimated 9.3 million American adults lost health insurance coverage as a result of increased unemployment during the recession of 2007-09, according to a newly published study by researchers at Cornell, Indiana and Carnegie Mellon universities.
MEXICO-Mexican authorities announced yesterday that they had thwarted a plan to smuggle 38 year old Saadi Kadafi into Mexico. Saadi, the son of now dead Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, was to travel to Mexico using falsified documents along with three others. Once there, they would have taken up residence in the ritzy Punta Mita resort […]
WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under the direction of President Obama and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, announced that it supports amending federal law to allow federally recognized tribal governments to make disaster declaration requests directly to the president. FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate first announced the administration's support for this […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that yesterday’s oil and gas lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) generated winning bids totaling $3,637,477 and covering 17 tracts on about 141,739 acres. The sale demonstrated industry interest in areas with high resource potential adjacent to State of […]