France “ready to punish” those responsible for chemical weapons attack in Syria – President Hollande. French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that the Syrian civil war threatens the “world peace” and that his country is ‘ready to punish’ those behind the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

When the doctors at Advocate Christ Medical Center in suburban Chicago hear that yet another shooting victim is on the way to the emergency room, they don’t wait to find out their name. The hospital — which sees its caseload rise and fall with the tide of crime on the city’s bullet-riddled South Side — assigns each trauma patient an alias in...

When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking. But he didn’t throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems. Mr Argarkov’s version of the contract contained a 0pc...

Across the nation, cities and states are watching Detroit’s largest-ever municipal bankruptcy filing with fear. Years of underfunded retirement promises to public sector workers, which helped lay Detroit low, could plunge them into a similar financial hole. A CNBC.com analysis of more than 120 of the nation’s largest state and local pension plans...

A string of robberies by people “dressed as police” led the people of Detroit to believe there were “fake cops” out robbing people at gunpoint,  it turns out they were “not fake after all”. A second officer, a 17-year veteran from Saint Clair Shores, has been arrested accused of robbing unsuspecting drivers at gunpoint. On...

Barack Obama knows how much time he has left as president of the United States. He said so last night at an Organizing For Action event in Washington, D.C. “I always remind people, I’ve run my last campaign.  Michelle is not sorry about it,” Obama said to laughter, according to the White House transcript of the event. “I’ve got a little...