Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Federal scientists investigating sewage from wastewater plants are finding tiny particles of gold and other precious metals that they say could be sold if ...

Voters in Erie are about to decide whether to fluoridate the town’s water. A group of vocal activists is mounting a campaign against fluoridation, using arguments and strategies employed by activists ...

Gold is a precious metal that has always fascinated humans. From Priam’s Treasure to the legend of El Dorado, gold —regarded as the noblest of metals— has been a symbol of splendour and wealth in many ...

No one who saw the 1964 movie, “Dr. Strangelove” can forget Jack D. Ripper, a paranoid, intellectually-challenged Air Force general who launched an unprovoked nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The ...

Gordon Dillow is best known as the barely readable OC Register columnist and professional boot-licker who's never seen an officer-involved shooting or excessive use of taser on an unarmed suspect he ...

@sgeltz52214 they are trying to make us sick. Sickness makes money. Hospital, insurance, pharmaceutical drugs, etc, all major money makers. — Chris Archer (@ChrisArcher42) May 20, 2015 Do you realize ...

Conspiracy theories and anti-intellectualism have been distinguishing attributes of the American right since at least the 1950s. The Age of Trump and American neofascism has amplified those worst ...

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