Up to 25 times more victims than official figure, hospitals overwhelmed, virus already at level 6 pandemic phase.

A girl’s family has filed a lawsuit against Galveston police for their assault on their 12-year-old daughter after mistaking her for a prostitute.

In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department.

A new bill introduced in Congress authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to set up a network of FEMA camp facilities to be used to house U.S. citizens in the event of a national emergency.

Plans to shut down tent cities in California and relocate homeless people to government-run facilities have stoked fears that the move could be a pretext for a wider internment of Americans in the event of a total economic collapse.

In the wake of discussions of and hints at a move toward a new global currency, a Republican Congresswoman has introduced a resolution in the House “that would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency.”

The US intelligence chief reportedly expects Israel and Iran to engage in a major military confrontation before the end of the year.

The huge economic stimulus package that President Obama signed into law Tuesday will result in “lower wages” for American workers, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The investigation into allegations of brutality by two Fresno police officers widened Thursday, with Police Chief Jerry Dyer saying that District Attorney Elizabeth Egan has launched an independent probe, and that the state attorney general’s office is set to review the case as well.

CALGARY — A man in Edmonton has died after being hit “at least twice” with a taser as police attempted to quell a disturbance inside a pawn shop, officials said yesterday.