News organizations have lost a significant share of their audience due to budget cuts that have impacted the quality and quantity of reporting. A new poll from the Pew Research Center found that 31% of respondents said they had stopped using a particular news outlet because it was no longer providing the same kind of news and information as in the past. Pew researchers said that those most likely... 

It is alarming to know that most Americans drink sugary beverages. In fact a massive propaganda (advertisement) campaign started back before my time. Soda pops were only 5 cents according to my Dad. However, at that time sodas and other drinks were likely made with real sugars as opposed to high fructose corn syrup which is used in most drinks today as a form of sweetener (a cancer inhibitor). In... 

A number of top US grocery stores, including Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, have pledged to reject selling the genetically engineered “frankenfish” if it is allowed on the market in April. The mutant fish was engineered by scientists at a company called AquaBounty, which has spent more than 15 years and $50 million researching and perfecting the frankenfish. The mutants can grow to market size... 

A US commission has advised that anthrax vaccination trials be carried out on children. The board gave strict guidelines for testing to put infants at no more than “minimal risk,” but critics accuse them of using children as guinea pigs. The presidential commission described the necessity to test the vaccine on children because in the event of a mass bioterrorist attack a large proportion of the... 

California’s population is experiencing a cultural makeover.The troubled economy is driving out the middle class to more prosperous areas of the country. Now, the future of America’s most populous state belongs more to immigrants than ever before. US Census data shows more than 41-thousand immigrants moved to Los Angeles county just in the past year. During the same period, more than 100-thousand... 

Researchers from King’s College London have achieved a breakthrough method during which they can grow real teeth from a person’s own gum cells. The study published the Journal of Dental Research is first major advance in developing a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth. Researchers isolated some cells from adult human gum (gingival) tissue from patients and grew... 

Monsanto has yet another case pending in the court system, this time before the U.S. Supreme Court on the exclusivity of its genetically modified seed patents. Narrowly at issue is whether Monsanto retains patent rights on soybeans that have been replanted after showing up in generic stocks rather than being sold specifically as seeds, or whether those patent rights are “exhausted” after the initial... 

There truly is no rest for the wicked, and Monsanto is at war once again against health conscious consumers with the latest ‘Monsanto Protection Act‘, managing to sneak wording into the latest Senate legislation that would give them blanket immunity from any USDA action regarding the potential dangers of their genetically modified creations while under review. The USDA would be unable to act against... 

The EU Parliament is preparing to vote on a proposal to ban all forms of pornography. A report detailing the ban was prepared by the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Embedded under Article 17 of the report is a clause that, if eventually made into law, would effectively ban pornography across all types of media, including the Internet, in the EU. Freedom of speech campaigners... 

It is the ultimate dream of socialist control freaks to dictate every detail of your life: what you eat, what you think, what you say and even whether you have the right to self defense. New York City Mayor Bloomberg tried to take his control freak power grab one step beyond all reason with a recent regulatory ban on large sodas. But not all sodas, mind you: diet sodas laced with toxic aspartame were... 

Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been fished out of the Huangpu River in China – a source of drinking water for millions of Shanghai residents. The number is likely to increase as the operation progresses. It is remains unknown who dumped the carcasses into the Huangpu River or what the cause of their death may have been. One possibility is that the pigs were discarded into the waters by some farmer... 

New York City’s literacy rates are on the decline: nearly 80 percent of high school graduates lack basic skills like reading, writing and math and are required to relearn them before qualifying for community college. During his most recent State of the City address, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hyped about the large investment the city has made on education – a multi-billion dollar investment... 

Tight squeeze: A Tokyo local shows a Japanese news crew around her tiny ‘coffin apartment’ In one of the most densely populated Asian cities, Tokyo, real estate prices are so undemocratic that a part of the population of the city is forced to live in most bizarre and unusual “apartments.” So-called Internet refugees permanently live in the booths and cubicles of Internet cafe.... 

The number of people living in homeless shelters in New York City has hit a record high. The number of people living in homeless shelters in New York City has hit a record high, marking a 19-percent jump compared to 2012, a report says. The Coalition for the Homeless released its 2013 State of the Homeless report on Tuesday, revealing that an average of 50,135 New Yorkers have been sleeping in emergency... 

New York is facing a deadly meningitis outbreak that is targeting gay men, many of which are HIV-positive. The city’s health department said several gay men have been found dead in their homes, and is urging people to immediately get vaccinated. “Since August 2010, we’ve detected 12 cases of this very specific strain but what we’re most concerned about is that in the past four weeks there...