Prime Minister Stephen Harper is heading for China with four cabinet ministers and seven MPs Monday. Since Harper took office in 2006 it will only be his second visit. Not only did he meet with his holiness, the Dalai Lama, which angered the Chinese government, but Harper also did not attend the 2008 Olympics in [...]

A court in Lago Agrio, Ecuador has upheld the ruling against Chevron that ordered the company to pay 18 billion USD in damages for chemicals spillage in the rainforests of the Amazon. The court made the announcement on Tuesday saying “We ratify the ruling of February 14 2011 in all its parts, including the sentence [...]

The Republican-controlled House passed a bill yesterday that would severely limit the government’s part in protecting waters from pollution by barring the Environmental Protection Agency from overruling state decisions on water quality. The bill passed on a 239-184 vote. Sixteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in supporting it. The White House has already said [...]

Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Germany will shut down all its nuclear reactors by 2022. Seven of the remaining German power plants were closed temporarily in March, just after the Japanese earthquake, and another six will be shut down by 2021. That will leave three reactors, will stay open for another year until 2022 [...]

Things aren’t looking so rosy for Ted Williams, the dude who went from homeless obscurity to megastar overnight. Williams, dubbed “The Man with the Golden Voice” became a YouTube sensation after a news station filmed him talking on camera, revealing his amazing radio voice. The guy who has been two years sober is now dealing [...]

Congress on Your Corner – that was what Gabrielle Giffords had set up outside a Tucson Safeway in an attempt to meet and greet the citizens of the Arizona city. Tonight, federal murder charges have been filed against Jared Loughner, the 24-year-old who shot Giffords in the head, then fired round after round into the crowd [...]

Democratic Arizona congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, who was among those on Sarah Palin’s infamous “target list,” was one of 18 people shot during a rampage at a Safeway grocery store. Giffords was the intended target of a 24-year-old gunman identified as Jared L. Loughner, who is described as mentally unstable. Tragically, there were six fatalities including Arizona’s [...]

If you’re looking for a feel good story today – you’ve come to the right place. Homeless man Ted Williams, who went to school for radio broadcasting only to have his life turned upside down by drugs and alcohol, is getting a second chance. Williams has been panhandling for years on the streets of Columbus, [...]

The state of California has approved a landmark emissions trading scheme with officials saying the US state needs to ‘move away from fossil fuels and to cleaner energy sources’. California’s cap-and-trade scheme will set a statewide limit on greenhouse gas emissions, with industry given allowances for what it may emit. Companies exceeding those allowances will [...]

The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil oil-spill lawsuit today against a British Petroleum PLC unit and several other companies. This is the federal government’s first major legal action in the Gulf of Mexico disaster. The other defendants are subsidiaries of Transocean Ltd., which owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon oil rig; Anadarko Petroleum Corp. [...]