USA & Canada

Dave Gold the founder of 99 Cents Only store chain has died. He was 80. 99 Cents Only was founded by Dave Gold more than three decades ago and now it has grown to a multi-billion dollar chain store in America. Gold died Monday of an apparent heart attack at his Los Angeles home, his son, Jeff Gold, told the ... Read More »

20,000 students sue - Approximately 20,000 students in California need a better understanding of the English language. Unfortunately, the students aren’t getting the proper language education that they need and desire. This according to a lawsuit against the state and education workers filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Denver Post reported on April 24. Based on state ... Read More »

obama daughters tattoos - President Obama has his fair share of parenting problems, and he even had to do something to stop his daughters Malia & Sasha from getting tattoos. So how did the President of the United States pull it off? Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show in a segment originally filmed before the Boston Marathon bombings, President Barack Obama revealed ... Read More »

$100 bill redesigned – The US Federal Reserve has given an all new design for the $100 bill. The new $100 bills will begin circulating from October 2013, that is almost 2 years after it was initially planned. The Fed has set a target date of Oct. 8. The redesigned note incorporates added security features, such as a blue, 3-D ... Read More »

On Monday, it became official: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with “use of a weapon of mass destruction” and “malicious destruction of property resulting in death” for his alleged role in last Monday’s bombing of the Boston marathon. The federal criminal complaint comes three days after police captured Tsarnaev in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts, and four days after a manhunt ... Read More »

Underwood tweet rage: Carrie Underwood slammed lawmakers in Tennessee last week over the “ag-gag” bill. The “ag-gag” bill requires people with undercover video footage of farms to submit their unedited footage to law enforcement within 48 hours. Carrie Underwood tweeted: “Shame on TN lawmakers for passing the Ag Gag bill. If Gov. Bill Haslam signs this, he needs to expect ... Read More »

New York is pushing for to increase the age limit to 21 to buy cigarettes. This new law if in comes into effect could help New York go smoke free. Young New Yorkers would not be able to buy cigarettes until they were 21, up from the current 18, under a proposal advanced Monday by Dr. Thomas A. Farley, the ... Read More »