Reports said Tuesday that a new legislative session will begin as Illinois income tax hike poised for a vote on Wednesday. According to the reports, the bill is about to raise as much as $6.8 billion a year for the state’s under attack budget by temporarily raising the individual income tax rate from three percent [...]
China flaunted its new J-20 stealth fighter jet during Tuesday’s air show upon the arrival of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates. According to the reports, the air show appeared to be like a viral marketing when it first hit the web. During the test flight, the crowd of people lined up alongside the airfield gate [...]
A group of archaeologists found a dozen of ceramic jars, grape juices and pulp in the Armenian cave, 60 miles from the biblical Mt. Ararat. According to the report published online Tuesday, researchers have unearthed the remains alongside the tomb of the Egyptian king Scorpion I, which is believed to date back around 3150 BC. [...]
Two convicted sisters were released in prison on Friday after Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to indefinitely suspend their life sentence. Jamie and Gladys Scott were released in the Mississippi prison, after Barbour gave his condition toward their release. He suggested Gladys, 35, on donating her kidney to her older sister Jamie, 38, who is [...]
John Edwards, a two-time candidate for presidency, was not stated on the Last Will and Testament of his estranged wife, Elizabeth Edwards. Elizabeth did not mention her estranged husband on the Last Will and Testament she signed before she died last month. The document was signed on December 1, six days before Elizabeth died. She [...]
NASA managers are set to establish a new launch date target for Discovery space shuttle STS-133 mission on Monday after series of delays. The agency delayed the launch of the space shuttle due to some work that are needed to be established before the big day. Crews need to fix the shuttle’s cracks, make some [...]
Agriculture industry in Queensland suffered due to wide floodwater that halted the transport network operation. The largest meat industry in Queensland faces new challenges on how to continue their operation this year, because of the severe damaged it encounter on its rail and roads and other means of transportation due to flood that covers the [...]
Louisiana State also experienced same dead blackbirds shower phenomenon that happened in neighboring Arkansas. Hundreds of blackbirds were found in Labarre, Louisiana, such as red-winged blackbirds, grackles, and starlings that were falling dead from the sky, a few days after thousands of blackbirds fell in Arkansas. LeAnn White, a National Wildlife Health Center’s field investigator [...]
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh estimated that billions of dollars have been damaged by the wide flooding in Queensland, Australia. The estimation also includes hundreds of millions lost in the state’s coal mines’ production. Aside from that Bligh also said that it will take a couple of years for some areas in Queensland to get back [...]
Various foreign leaders and diplomats invited by Iran to tour on its nuclear facilities in mid-January. According to Associated Press (AP) report, Iran already sent invitation to delegates from the European Union members, China, and Russia, to have the privilege to tour over the nuclear facilities of the country this month. Philip J. Crowley, the [...]
