Los Angeles alone has nearly 1,000 places where, with a doctor's note, you can legally buy pot. But the illegal side of marijuana is also thriving

Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral called for a national boycott of Idaho potatoes to protest Idaho's plan to kill wolves in September. That could affect Idaho growers, who produce about one-third of the potatoes consumed in the United States.

There are a lot of currencies used in the world but not all of them can be traded actively in the foreign exchange market. And it is not a hidden fact that among all of these currencies, only eight of them are frequently traded.

Big news today. We've confirmed that eight more major advertisers have pulled their support from Glenn Beck's show -- Wal-Mart, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank, Broadview Security, and Re-Bath.

The firms take billions of dollars out of the U.S. healthcare wallet as profits, while imposing enormous administrative costs on doctors, hospitals, employers and patients. They've introduced complexity into the system at every level. Why protect them?

It all depends where you live. That was the geography of Israel's propaganda, designed to demonstrate that we softies - we little baby-coddling liberals living in our secure Western homes - don't realise the horror of 12 (now 20) Israeli deaths in 10 year

There is compelling new proof of a silver (and gold) price manipulation. The evidence connects the investment bank JP Morgan Chase, the dominant force in world commodity trading, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...........

Depending on how the rescue plan is operated, it could bloat our final bill for this mess while benefiting the very institutions that got us into it.

The financial crisis entered a potentially dangerous new phase on Wednesday when many credit markets stopped working normally as investors around the world frantically moved their money into the safest investments, like Treasury bills.

Panic is the word of the hour on Wall Street. Now even Morgan Stanley is fighting for survival. The commercial bank Wachovia and China's Bank Citic are being discussed as possible rescuers. The crisis has led President Bush to cancel a trip.