(BBC) — In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America’s founding documents. On Tuesday night, while Republican candidates in Nevada were debating such American issues as nuclear waste disposal and the immigration status of Mitt Romney’s gardener, American and British lawyers in Philadelphia were taking on a far more fundamental topic. Namely, [...]

(ABC News) – President Obama will pitch a plan today to help ease the burden of loans on college students, as a new report shows that higher education is becoming more expensive for many young Americans. Starting next year, borrowers’ student loan payments will be capped at 10 percent of their discretionary income, and they could be eligible for forgiveness on [...]

(HuffPo) — With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren’t more African-Americans looking toward science, technology, engineering and math – the still-hiring careers known as STEM? The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics – and [...]

(Economist) — IT IS hardly news that the city of Detroit has been in long-term decline, a victim of everything from the problems of the “big three” carmakers to family breakdown, crime and middle-class flight, both black and white. But the scale of the recent collapse has caught even hardened Detroiters by surprise. When the [...]

(Christian Science Monitor) — Sometimes the banning of a book is self-explanatory, but other cases may leave some of us scratching their heads – who could object to “The Wizard of Oz,” for example? Here are 10 books that may seem innocent – but somehow they managed to offend someone. Read More…

(CNN) — Netflix shares plunged 35% in premarket trading Tuesday after the video rental company said it lost 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter. Netflix (NFLX) earned $62 million, or $1.16 a share, on a record $822 million in revenue in the quarter that just ended, beating analysts’ estimates. But shareholders ignored that fact and [...]

When Al Davis hired Art Shell as the head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders in 1989, Clarence Shelmon was a 37-year-old running backs coach at the University of Southern California. Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern N.F.L. For Shelmon, now the offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers, Shell’s hiring opened [...]

(CNN) – You can’t Google this. OK, maybe you can. But MC Hammer doesn’t want you to. The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early ’90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools. The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the [...]

CNN) – President Barack Obama visits Las Vegas Monday, part of Western trip that will mix campaigning with presidential business — and an appearance on “The Tonight Show.” A campaign event was scheduled at The Bellagio hotel and casino on Monday afternoon. Obama then will meet with homeowners at a private residence and will deliver remarks, [...]

What is one of the hottest news stories being read right now in the U.S.? Anything and everything related to Occupy Wall Street (OWS). Pew Research Center, a leading “fact tank” in U.S. just released information today that public interest in the Wall Street protests noticeably increased last week, ranking #2 in the News Interest [...]