A man in a crowd grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy by the shoulder Thursday and nearly knocked him to the ground before being tackled by security officers and detained.

Though this interview may seem a little dated now that the mainstream has moved on, MCR goes in depth on the potential reasons why the US claimed to have killed OBL when they did. A thought-provoking read...

Friends around the globe, We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.

UK government proposes to change the law on squatting private properties to make it a cirminal offence. Currently it is a matter for the civil courts where an owner must apply for a possession order to evict squatters. Is this law a preparation for imminent mortgage forclosures across the UK?

Resources and trade routes opened by the melting sea ice set the stage for threats of a second Cold War as countries vie to control (and threaten to fight for) the resources and supremacy it represents.

Ron Paul and Barney Frank are in a mixed-pairs effort to end federal prohibition of marijuana for everything except cross-border or state-to-state trafficking. Cash-strapped states would then be free to regulate and TAX as they see fit.

Vice President Joe Biden's deficit reduction talks imploded today after the only two Republicans involved in the negotiations announced they are halting their participation because of their objections to Democratic demands for "tax increases."

"At the end of 2008, that debt equaled 40 percent of the nation's annual economic output (a little above the 40-year average of 37 percent). Since then, the figure has shot upward: By the end of this year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects, federal debt will reach roughly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) -- the highest percentage since shortly after World War II," reads the report.

Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday called on Vice President Joe Biden to include new economic stimulus spending in deficit-reduction talks as a way of lowering the 9.1 percent jobless rate that is hobbling the economic recovery.

(Reuters) - The layoffs of thousands of government workers may threaten the already slow-motion economic recovery in many U.S. metropolitan areas, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Brookings Institution. "Job growth, though occurring in more metropolitan areas than in the past, was sluggish," the think tank said. "Those that suffered the most, as well as those with the weakest economic recoveries, typically lost government jobs." Since the recession began in 2007, 19 out of the 20 metropolitan areas with the strongest economies gained government jobs, according to the report which focused on the first quarter of the year. Conversely, 13 of the lowest performing 20 areas lost government jobs.