Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials knew in advance about the attacks of September 11, 2001, says a US court filing that seeks damages for Iran’s ”direct support for, and sponsorship of, the most deadly act of terrorism in American history”. One of the defectors also claimed that Iran was involved in designing the attacks, the... 

This is just an example of the hundreds of abandoned American factories. At one time, a job in a factory, working along the assembly line, was what so many Americans strived for. In many ways, it was the portrait of the American Dream. Factories and manufacturing plants also, once formed the back bone of this country.In some cities and towns, manufacturing plants were the sole industry on which everything... 

The future of lighting? The 'greener' 100-watt-equivalent LED bulbs are due to go on sale next year but are expensive. Although it sounds bad to pay as much as $50 for a light bulb, considering the fact that these LED light bulbs have an average life span of 25,000 hours (22 years) the price isn’t bad at all and if these bulbs would indeed last that long, this could really mean a technological... 

Some phones have “kill switches” built into them that allow the companies to remotely delete software. When you buy a video game from Best Buy, you don’t give the retailer the right to barge into your house whenever it wants. So why do we give that permission to software companies? Most popular smartphone operating systems and other electronic gadgets include what security researchers... 

The 18-year-old woman charged in an attack on a transgender woman at a Rosedale McDonald’s, which was captured on video that went viral on the Internet, will face an additional hate crime charge after being indicted Monday by a Baltimore Countygrand jury. Activists for the gay, lesbian and transgender community had expressed concern that hate crime charges weren’t initially filed by police... 

Unleashed by its U.S. Army minders, the Mississippi River poured across Louisiana lowlands Monday on its way to inundate thousands of homes and businesses as the Corps of Engineers fights to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans. “Hope you appreciate this Baton Rouge. You’re welcome,” read one sign posted outside a home in the path of the floodwater. The water was rising early Monday... 

Heimdall by way of Detroit is not the main problem with Thor. It’s one thing to turn a heathen war god into a comic book. It’s another to turn him into a social democrat. Kenneth Branagh’s Thor was obviously meant to be a desecration, and it’s already passé to point this out. The casting is so deliberately clumsy that it becomes ironically racist. Idris Elba as the “whitest of the gods,”... 

One man has gone to extraordinary lengths to save his family’s home from rising floodwaters…by building a giant levee and moat system. Russell Petty, 50, of DeValls Bluff, Arkansas spent several weeks excavating and piling sand bags, including with the help of 100 friends and neighbors, reports The New York Times. Mr Petty’s home is menaced by high water from the nearby White River,... 

Last year, MSNBC and other so-called “news” outlets mercilessly attacked Kentucky Senatorial candidate Rand Paul for giving an honest libertarian answer to Rachel Maddow concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On Friday’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews tried the same tactic on Paul’s father Ron, but the elder Texas Congressman was ready for the question and ended up... 

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled off an Air France flight by the NYPD. The head of the IMF has been charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, following allegations made by a hotel maid in New York. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody at JFK airport after being pulled from the first-class cabin of a flight to Paris just minutes before take-off. The 62-year-old... 

Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry. “We... 

When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets... 

Texas has become the first state to ban intrusive airport security pat downs. The bill, passed late last night, aims to make touching travellers in an ‘inappropriate’ way during searches a criminal offence. The measure makes it illegal for anyone conducting pat-downs to touch ‘the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person’ including through clothing. It also... 

Update: Ron Paul just announced his 2012 Presidential Bid, momemnts ago as reported by Fox News. Ron Paul is set to officially launch his presidential campaign Friday morning, a Paul source told Politico. The Texas congressman will make his announcement from New Hampshire during the 7:00 a.m. hour of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Paul is then scheduled to speak at 10:00 a.m. in Exeter, part... 

Some young girls’ clothing available online is sexy or sexualizing and U.S. researchers say this contributes to socializing girls as sexually objectified woman. Samantha Goodin, a former Kenyon College student, and a research team led by Dr. Sarah Murnen, a professor of psychology at Kenyon College examined the frequency and nature of sexualizing clothing available for young girls — children,...