State Shuts 8 Prisons To Save $120m

Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block. The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement and, if they refuse, they are strapped into a chair. A nurse then passes a tube through their noses and down into their stomachs; for one to two hours, they are fed a drip of Ensure while a Navy corpsman watches. Read full article >>    

President Barack Obama's vow to try again to close the Guantanamo Bay prison remains a tough sell in Congress.

Van Jones says it was a mistake for President Obama to advocate a new formula that will reduce Social Security benefits

President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget plan Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden, offering a combination of new spending initiatives and tax increases aimed at creating jobs and reducing future budget deficits.In his remarks, Obama called his plan “a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle-class jobs and growth.”He said, “We can grow our economy and shrink our d