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Office of Management and Budgets (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney outlines the structure, intents and purposes of the Trump administration Fiscal Year 2018 Budget. “The Taxpayers Budget”. With Video...

Managers at the World Bank provided false information to the agency's board of directors about a $39 million, politically-connected European "coastal cleanup" project that led to the destruction and destitution of a powerless village in Albania in 2007 — and then spent nearly two years trying to cover it up, FOX News has learned. Bank insiders also misled and stonewalled a panel of independent investigators commissioned by the board to investigate the scandal, according to the investigators themselves. World Bank sources tell FOX News that the panel's report, submitted to the 24-member board in late November, is one of the...

One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of World of Warcraft and Magic Land hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money. The people working at this clandestine locale are "gold farmers." Every day, in 12-hour shifts, they "play" computer games by killing onscreen monsters and winning battles, harvesting artificial gold coins and other virtual goods as rewards that, as it turns out, can be transformed into real cash. That is because, from Seoul to San Francisco,...

Ok, here is my question: How much information does DMV give out about us. I just recently (today) ordered a pizza. The clerk tells me he needs my driver's license number (now I figured before that was to check my address), just out of curiousity I decided to ask him "why?". "Oh," he tells me, "it's to check whether we can accept your checks or not, if your credit is good." Now, what in tar blazes is this about? Some shmo at the pizza joint can check my credit rating? Or whether I've bounced a check (which I haven't, mind...

My ex-wife just phoned me. Apparently in the historic district of Snohomish, WA a new BBQ place is opening up. The owner had painted a huge mural of pigs on the side of his building. The Snohomish City Government has ordered the owner to cover the mural because the pigs are "naked."

Microsoft shocked the global technology industry yesterday with the revelation that it tried last year to buy SAP, the German software giant. Though SAP said the talks had been abandoned this spring, the pursuit of such a big merger represents a radical departure for Microsoft and could herald a new phase of consolidation in the fast-maturing technology business.SAP, with a current stock market value of $51bn (£27.7bn), is the world's third biggest independent software company, after Microsoft and Oracle. A deal with Microsoft would have threatened the balance of power in the market for selling technology to large companies and...

A sign at a business establishment in Philadelphia, PA: "WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 AL QAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE AMERICAN!" This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Philadelphia. You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement. One would think that anti-hate groups from all across the country would be marching on this business... And that the National Guard might have to be called to keep the angry crowds back. But, perhaps in these stressful times one might be tempted to let the proprietors simply make their statement...