Domestic Glance
About 1 in 6 unemployed Americans suffers from drug or alcohol addiction — nearly twice the rate of substance abuse found in working Americans — according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released Tuesday.
The latest edition of the survey, which analyzed drug, alcohol and tobacco use data from 2012, found that 17 percent of unemployed Americans had a substance abuse disorder, compared with 9 percent of full-time workers. Because the survey relied on self-reports of substance abuse, the actual number might be even higher.
1 in 6 unemployed Americans abuses drugs or alcohol
White House delays small business healthcare market by one year
Small business owners were told to wait another year before they can use an online marketplace to shop for employee medical insurance on Wednesday as US health officials scrambled to fix their broken consumer website instead.
In another blow to Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, the bad news was released just as Washington emptied for Thanksgiving and attention had begun to turn to more promising performance among state insurance exchanges.
'This Isn't Toronto': Florida Sheriff Arrests Mayor For Selling Drugs
A sheriff in Florida charged and arrested Hampton Mayor Barry Layne Moore with selling drugs this week, explaining that Bradford County "isn't Toronto," the Associated Press reported.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack in November and has been stripped of some of his powers by the Toronto City Council. He has refused to resign.
Moore, 51, is charged with possessing and selling Oxycodone and is currently being held on $45,000 bail.
Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers'
The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document.
The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as “exemplars” of how “personal vulnerabilities” can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
Hundreds evacuated in Ohio town after rail car leaks 'highly flammable liquid'
An Ohio high school was acting as an evacuation shelter Wednesday following the derailment of a freight train in Willard, the Red Cross said.
About 400 homes near the CSX tracks were evacuated early Wednesday with sleepy residents hustled off to relatives' homes, motels and Willard High School, which was closed for Thanksgiving but reopened to take in evacuees.
City officials advised residents via Twitter the evacuation order could remain in effect well into Thursday.
Some Md. prisoners freed after 2012 court ruling
Together, the four men sitting handcuffed in a Baltimore courtroom had spent 151 years in prison.
Nicholas Marshall-Bey: 34 years on a murder conviction. Salim Sadiki: 37 years after being found guilty of rape. Michael Person: 39 years in the slaying of a bartender. Hercules Williams: 41 years in the death of a man in his living room. Yet, after a short hearing earlier this month, the men did something that once would have seemed impossible. They walked out of the courthouse as free men and stood on a city street, hugging family and wiping away tears.
The men were released after Maryland's highest court decided that judges had given improper instructions to juries that heard the men's cases decades ago, making them fundamentally flawed. The same faulty instructions have now freed approximately 50 people statewide, and some 200 prisoners could ultimately be released from Maryland prisons as a result.
Employees plan protests at 1,500 Walmart stores on Black Friday
As part of their effort to win a $10-an-hour minimum wage, Walmart employees plan to disrupt operations at 1,500 of the company's stores on Black Friday, hitting the retail giant in the pocketbook on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Union officials backing the employees say the number of protests, which will include employee walkouts, will be "unprecedented," taking place at stores across the country.
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