USA Today BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq's prime minister hailed the end of the American military presence in Iraq as a new dawn for his country and urged Iraqis to preserve the unity of a nation still under attack by insurgents and beset by sectarian divisions… more »

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Turns out, the White House did not get egged. Trick-or-treaters marched up the White House driveway on a wet, snowy Saturday, past the spider web-like gauze, the pumpkins and the costumed actors to the mansion’… more »

CR Note: Below is a color coded index of crony capitalism....the darker the color the worse it gets. Most of these darker areas speak to either authoritarianism or Socialism. This is an 2007 illustration,however, we expect the US is of a somewhat darker… more »

View this image NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy the Hubble Space T… more »