By Eric Berger
www.chron.com

Recent hurricanes Ike and Katrina may rank among the three costliest storms in U.S. history, but in preparing for disasters the federal government must think bigger still, says America’s top emergency planner. Read More

By Erica Ritz

McMillan Group International, a company that manufactures firearms and accessories, is claiming that Bank of America asked them find another bank for “political” reasons. Read More

By John Mangels
Cleveland.com

The 2010 jet crash that killed Poland’s president, first lady and dozens of dignitaries during a politically sensitive visit to Russia couldn’t have happened the way official investigations say, a University of Akron engineering professor’s analysis shows. Read More

WTF !! – New Super Agency Bypasses Congress !!

Obama and the Democrats brag about Dodd-Frank as one of their great achievements. Now we know why. The bill gives dictatorial power to new agencies and allows unlimited collecting and sharing of your information. Read More

By Jim Forsyth

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Thursday for a federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country. Read More

By MSNBC News

King County sheriff and Seattle police SWAT teams are pumping more tear gas into an underground bunker in the Rattlesnake Ridge wilderness area where they believe Peter Keller, the prime suspect in the murders of his wife and daughter, remains holed up. Read More

In May of 1993, deeply offended by its “blasphemous” content, a priest wrote to Channel 4 and complained about the recent screening of “Revelations,” a recording of Bill Hicks‘s live show at London’s Dominion Theatre some months before (a show which, incidentally, can be seen in its entirety here). Read More

By LA-Times Blog

He spent his life trying to determine how people died. But now his colleagues are searching for answers after he died under mysterious circumstances. Read More

By Reza Kahlili
The Daily Caller

The Islamic Republic of Iran said Tuesday that it has the ability to position a naval vessel within three miles of the East Coast of the United States. Read More

By Tiffany Gabbay
The Blaze

In anticipation of May Day demonstrations, Occupy Wall Street is vowing to pull out all the stops with the “biggest shut down“ New York City has ”ever seen.” Read More

There’s always one thing new to learn in Vatican City. Anthony Zonfrell, 20, a visitor to the holy city did a double consider when he saw Sylvester Stallone in one of Raphael’s masterpieces. Read More

By SKY News

The bodies of hundreds of pelicans have been found in Peru on the same beaches where almost 900 dead dolphins have washed up over the last month. The government said they will investigate the deaths of almost 600 birds found along a 70km stretch of northern coastline Read More

By Jennifer Welsh

Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called “mankind’s furthest relative.” It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new base group, called a kingdom, on the tree of life. Read More

By Tom Knudson
Sacbee.com

First of three parts

The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes.

Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped out of his truck near a ravine in Nevada and found something he hadn’t intended to kill. Read More

By ROB WAUGH
Daily Mail

NASA has said there are ‘billions’ of planets in our own Milky Way galaxy – but a new study suggests that the idea that they are teeming with alien lifeforms may just be wishful thinking. Read More