Jack Straw, the justice secretary in the former British government, sparked controversy when he accused young men of Pakistani origin in Britain as regarding vulnerable native girls as "easy meat" for sexual abuse.The Blackburn MP and one of the Labor Party’s most prominent figures challenged the Pakistani...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill …
WASHINGTON – The United States just passed a dubious milestone: Government debt surged to an all-time high, more than $14 trillion.
That means Congress soon will have to lift the legal debt limit to give the nearly maxed-out government an even higher credit limit or dramatically...
Forget Cellphones; Casinos Say Poker Is Answer to State's Budget Woes
California voters may have decided that marijuana was not the answer to the state's budget woes but what about gambling?
A group of California casinos say they could raise about $1 billion over the next decade if the state legalized Internet poker.
The problem is California is...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on Friday her department is canceling a $3 billion program to erect a problem-plagued, high-tech, virtual fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Department officials briefed Congress Friday on its decision to scrap the Secure Border Initiative (SBINet) and its plan to move ahead with...
SANFORD, Maine (WCSH) -- While attending a meeting for business leaders in Sanford, Governor Paul LePage spoke out about why he would not attend Martin Luther King ceremonies on the upcoming holiday.
LePage has declined invitations from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The organization has already...
