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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsZ3p9gOkpY&t=8s [bad language alert] Brazil is about to elect a new president during a turbulent period of political corruption and economic uncertainty. John Oliver urges the people of Brazil not to figuratively [deleted] their democracy.

THE TRANSPORTATION EQUALITY ACT OF 2013 The U.S. government has just passed a new law called: "THE TRANSPORTATION EQUALITY ACT" also known as the Affordable Volvo Act which declares that every adult citizen MUST purchase a Volvo, by April 2014. These affordable Volvos will cost an average of $54,000-$100,000 each unless the purchaser is entitled to a subsidy. This does not include taxes, gas, parking, insurance, licensing and repair fees. This law has been passed, because until now, typically only wealthy and financially responsible people have been able to purchase safe vehicles such as Volvos. This is unfair to people...

This is a poll being conducted by the Newark Star Ledger wanting to know if readers think a Union Township High School teacher should be fired for condemning homosexual behavior on her facebook page.

American in Brazil custody dispute reaches agreement to visit son he hasn't seen in 4 yearsBy MARCO SIBAJA | Associated Press Writer 8:59 PM EST, February 6, 2009 US citizen David Goldman, right, walks with a member of US Congress Christopher Smith as he arrives in Brasilia, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009. Goldman has waged a four-year custody battle for his son, Sean, in Brazil. Goldman said he has not been allowed to see his 8-year-old son Sean since his former wife Bruna took the boy for a two-week vacation to her native Brazil in 2004 and never returned. Bruna remarried...

Police, resident clash in dispute Kettering woman walking dogs lands in handcuffs By Mara Lee e-mail address: mara_lee@coxohio.com Dayton Daily News KETTERING | A 66-year-old woman taking her dogs for a walk ended up in jail for 90 minutes after getting into a dispute with a patrol officer. She was charged with walking in the street, assault on a police officer and obstructing official business. She was released on her own recognizance. But Kettering police said the case could have been avoided if the woman had cooperated during the encounter. Geraldine Hemmert-Emmons, who lives on Braddock Street in Kettering, was...

On good days, it took Jen Wells 20 minutes to get to work, but the good days were rare. Usually, in fact, it took the 26-year-old art director up to an hour to get to her office in downtown Atlanta. Finally, she had had enough. So, like millions of Americans, Wells traded in the stress, tolls, and gas bills for a place in town and gave up the lousy commute. "It's the hassle factor," she says. Traffic, everyone knows, is one of the bigger hassles of modern life. But just in time for Memorial Day, a blizzard of brand-new data ...

Published in the Asbury Park Press 6/14/00 By JULIET GREER FREEHOLD BUREAU MANALAPAN -- A nurse and a counselor from Milford Brook Elementary School were both cleared yesterday of all charges that they hurt a first-grader while checking to see if he was abused. After a hearing in Manalapan Municipal Court in which the 7-year-old student testified, a judge found no probable cause to charge either woman with kidnapping or criminal restraint. He also dismissed a count of simple assault against one of the women. The boy's father, Glenn A. Gladney of Manalapan, had filed charges of kidnapping, criminal restraint, ...