U.S.

Huge oil profits linked to economic slowdown

WASHINGTON — Exxon Mobil reported $10.4 billion in second quarter profits July 27, the second highest quarterly profits for any publicly traded company in U.S. history. Shell profits jumped 40 percent to $7.32 billion in the...

News bias in The Associated Press

A new study conducted at Sonoma State University shows widespread bias in Associated Press (AP) news reports favoring U.S. government positions. On October 25, 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union posted to their website 44 autopsy...

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Time to end the Republican war on science

WASHINGTON — “The Republican War on Science,” a best-selling book by Chris Mooney, exposes the multipronged offensive by the Bush-Cheney administration and the Republican Party to twist science to their right-wing agenda.. These modern-day “Know Nothings”...

Despite stem cell veto, scientists and patients fight on

Stem cell therapy holds awesome potential to cure many of humanity’s most debilitating diseases — Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and spinal injuries — but promising research was dealt a devastating setback July 19 when President Bush exercised...