Despite the promise of peace ahead of the election, 15 people were killed Monday in a seaside Kenyan town by machete-wielding gang members. Laura Heaton reports on the important election since independence.

Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo all foreclosed on military families, a discovery that was made while analyzing mortgages during the multi-billion dollar settlement with the government, the New York Times reports.

The Associated Press’ Stephen Ohlemacher is out with an article lamenting the tax burden levied on the richest Americans who are “paying some of their biggest federal tax bills in decades even as the rest of the population continues to pay at historically low rates.”

The federal government plans to hold a call for bids for oil and gas discovery licenses for the Bent Horn lands off Baffin Island in Nunavut.

The oil field is on Cameron Island, northwest of Bathurst Island, and was already the site of exploration and production.

Red Lake Nation Tribal Members Blockade Enbridge Pipelines

Darla Goodwin wasn’t surprised when she first heard about the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.

If you’re planning a trip to Washington, DC, you might want to choose your wardrobe wisely. A federal judge says that a Florida man was not wrongly arrested for wearing an “Occupy Everything” jacket inside the Supreme Court.

The Republican party wasn’t always the party of war, unlimited military spending, and reckless foreign entanglements. There is a long albeit largely unknown tradition of opposition to militarism in the GOP, starting with the so-called „isolationist“ opposition to US intervention in World War II and continuing right up until the 1960s, when an outgoing Republican president said farewell to the nation, and I quote:

Food companies have known for decades that salt, sugar and fat are not good for us in the quantities Americans consume them. But every year, people are swayed to ingest about twice the recommended amount of salt and fat — and an estimated 70 pounds of sugar.

Pundits and legal experts told Israeli media that the prosecution may drop the charges against Olmert following the recent developments. Meantime, other experts insisted that the case will continue at least until Yossi Olmert has made his testimony.

Verzweifelt kämpfen die Bewohner der Dörfer Pandumaan und Sipituhuta in der Provinz Nordsumatra um den Erhalt ihrer Lebensgrundlage. Seit fünf Generationen bewirtschaften und bewahren ihre Familien die Regenwälder am Tobasee. Vor allem die Weihrauchbäume sichern ihnen ausreichendes Einkommen.