The Supreme Court voted twice on Monday in the case UTILITY AIR REGULATORY GROUP v.ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, handing the EPA a victory in one vote but struck down the EPA in another. In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could force major polluters, such as coal-fired plants and factories, to utilize […]
In an analysis derived from data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Violence Policy Center issued a release that included a listing of the top five states with the highest death rates in the nation. Alaska is ranked third in the list of five. With a gun death rate of 17.41 per […]
President Obama, on Thursday afternoon, presented the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor to Cpl. William “Kyle” Carpenter in the Eat Room of the White House. 24-year-old Cpl Carpenter, along with Lance Cpl Nicholas Eufrazio, were assigned to a sandbag fortification atop a building in a small village in Helmand province on November […]
A man who had spent 24 years seven months and 20 days behind bars in New York before having his conviction vacated in April is now in the beginning stages of suing the city of New York for $162 million. It was in 1989 that Jonathan Fleming, now 51-years-old, was convicted of the killing his friend […]