By: Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today formally recognized the creation of the new Critical Manufacturing Sector Coordinating Council (CMSCC). The CMSCC includes companies such as automakers, heavy equipment...
By: USA TODAY
Liz Szabo
A government agency said Wednesday that there's "some concern" that a controversial ingredient in plastic alters behavior and development of the brain and prostate gland in children and babies, both before and after birth.
By: Christian Science Monitor
Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
After curfew on Wednesday night, two National Guard soldiers traded their rifles for a guitar and some drumsticks.
Taking the stage at a tiny lounge in the French Quarter, they plunged into a blues riff that, by the end, became...
By: Los Angeles Times
Richard Fausset and David Zucchino, Times Staff Writers
It was people this time, not water, that poured into the streets of the storm-tossed city.
On Wednesday morning, police removed the roadblocks that had kept evacuees out of metro New Orleans. Thousands who had fled streamed back...
By: Los Angeles Times
P.J. Huffstutter, Times Staff Writer
As clashes between police and protesters subsided outside the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, county prosecutors charged eight people with conspiring to cause a riot as part of a terrorist act.
By: USA TODAY
Marisol Bello and Donna Leinwand
BATON ROUGE -- During Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's capital city was a haven for Gulf Coast evacuees -- the staging area that shipped food, fuel and manpower to flood-ravaged communities.
By: Los Angeles Times
Marc Lifsher, Times Staff Writer
California's attorney general wants to put a new spin on the old admonition "Don't step on the grass!"
The warning could read "Don't roll on the artificial turf" if Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and local law enforcement officials...
By: USA TODAY
Jill Lawrence
ST. PAUL -- Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that the nation must choose this fall between "a true American hero" who survived torture in Vietnam and a Chicago "machine politician" who "has never led...
By: Homeland Security
As Gustav continues inland, Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine serve as stark reminders of the need for Americans to be prepared. The Department of Homeland Security’s Ready Campaign encourages citizens to get an emergency...
By: USA TODAY
A.J. Perez
Major makers of artificial turf have voluntarily agreed to remove lead from future products, but a lawsuit spearheaded by the California Attorney General's Office could make that move mandatory.
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