Just in case we needed more evidence of the hardship inflicted by the country’s devastating economic crisis, earlier this month we got it: more Americans than ever are receiving food stamps. The Department of Agriculture reported that 35.1 million people relied on government help to buy groceries in June 713,000 more than in the previous month and a 22% jump from the previous year’s figure
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Bloomberg Replaces New York City Schools Chancellor Black
Why Abdominal Pain Is Such a Headache for ER Doctors
A Summit on Obesity
Super Bowl Sex Trade: Religious Groups Try to Crack Down
Environment: They Lied to Us
Five young adults charged in burglaries of celebrity homes
Former ‘enemy combatant’ sentenced in Illinois
A former “enemy combatant” who was held in a South Carolina Naval brig for six years with no charges was sentenced Thursday to eight years and four months in prison, a Justice Department spokesman said. The 73-year-old bridge spans the San Francisco Bay and carries an average of 280,000 vehicles daily, according to the state transportation department
2 Chicago men arrested on terror charges
Girl found in NY claims no memory of name, home, family
Authorities are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a teenage girl who mysteriously turned up in Manhattan two weeks ago, claiming to have no memory of her family, her home — or even her own name. “I just want to know who I am,” the girl says in a statement released by the New York City Administration for Children’s Services