The world renowned singer and actress Madonna recently settled a lawsuit with one of her neighbors over a dispute regarding noise levels. According to a December 1st, 2011 report by BBC News, Madonna’s neighbor Karen George filed a legal complaint against Madonna as she claimed the musical artist was using her studio as a musical [...]
In recent news that will surely get animal rights activists in an uproar, Congress lifted a ban that has been in place for the last five years which prevented slaughterhouses from slaughtering horses for human consumption. According to a November 30th report by ABC News, the Congressional ruling stemmed from a bill that President Obama [...]
China is anything but happy with the U.S. Senate’s decision to pass an anti-Yuan bill into law last month. China’s Commerce Department stated that if President Barack Obama goes through with the signing of the bill, the decision would be met with very harsh retaliation. They state that the current proposed legislation would do nothing [...]
Adnan al Bakkour, the attorney general of the Syrian city of Hama, resigned after stating that he has witnessed more than 70 people executed in one day. According to an August 31, 2011 report by Fox News, Bakkour said he was being forced to resign by President Bashar al Assad. Bakkour also stated that he [...]
The Obama administration is looking to bypass Congress’ decision of overriding the nation’s main public-education law. Waivers will be granted to the states that agree with his schools agenda. If states don’t agree with the No Child Left Behind law’s 2014 deadline, which requires that students achieve 100 percent proficiency on all of their required [...]
In 2010, a judge ruled that the ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. So the supporters of gay marriage have taken to the courts to get same sex marriages legally recognized in the state of California. However, it appears that the highest courts in California are leaning toward the opposition of gay marriage, according to [...]