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Tim King`s Cross Country Ride for Veterans Health

Thank you for helping Tim King ride from coast to coast!

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - A letter is being dispatched to hundreds of readers who have contacted Salem-News.com over the years with regard to military base contamination which is largely unknown to the American public.

Veterans are sick and dying. We've been working on this for years, it is time to take what we have learned to the affected Vets themselves...

The Fallacy of Celibacy

When we humans attempt to ignore our basic instincts we often suffer irreparable damage to ourselves and to those around us.

(PORTLAND, OR) - All creatures are controlled by urges and instincts. A spider is born knowing just how to create the complicated geometric pattern we call a web. Can you imagine having to teach a baby spider how to build a web? Go this way, now anchor it here, then go back over there, no, this way!”

Can you imagine having to teach a duck to fly south? They just jump up into the air and go and they somehow know when they arrive there.

Detectives Investigate Murder of Lebanon Man

Mr. Klavano was an avid outdoorsman who spent a considerable amount of time camping in the Cascade Mountain Range of Eastern Linn County making his living as a trapper.

(ALBANY) - Linn County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the murder of a Lebanon man whose body was discovered Monday evening.

On July 30, at approximately 6:15 pm, Keith and Sharon Klavano, of Lebanon, reported to the Sheriff's Office they had found the body of their son, Wayne Keith Klavano, age 48, at his campsite located in a remote area off of the Upper Soda Fork Road about 10 miles north of Highway 20.

Peace Not Capitulation

To Mr Abbas and those at the helm in Ramallah I say, please, collect your papers, go home, dissolve the PA and put the burden of the occupation onto the occupiers not the occupied.

(LONDON) - Call me a cynic, but when it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck why do they insist on calling it a swan?

I am having a moment of déjà vu here. The talks about talks about how to conduct talks are underway in Washington and I cannot feel

Time for the FCC to Re-Examine Its Retransmission Consent Rules

The July 29, 2013 deadline for reaching an agreement was extended until August 2.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Imagine not being able to watch "Person of Interest," "The Good Wife," "NCIS," and other programs on CBS or Showtime.

But satellite customers like me as well as cable customers may not be able to have uninterrupted access to the major four (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) because the 1992 Cable Act requires pay TV providers to get broadcaster consent to carry the station...

Saudi Arabia: 600 Lashes, 7 Years for Activist

Badawi’s wife and children moved abroad in 2012, fearing repercussions.

(YORK, UK) - A Jeddah court on July 29, 2013, convicted a liberal activist of violating Saudi Arabia’s anti-cybercrime law and sentenced him to 600 lashes and seven years in prison.

The Criminal Court found Raif Badawi, the founder of the Free Saudi Liberals website, guilty of insulting Islam through his website and in comments he made on television...

Left, Arabs and The `Israeli Democracy`

The truth of the matter is that I don’t hold my breath, but I also hope to be wrong. And if I am wrong, we would have to congratulate Netanyahu for achieving the impossible – Bonding the Israeli elitist Left with Israel’s working class i.e. the Arabs

(LONDON) - In the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ the Government decided to get rid of marginal opposition.

The Knesset passed yesterday a bill that seeks to raise election threshold to 4%. The new law is set to block the Arab and Left parties in Israel from participation in the political game.

Jihad Virus Spreads in Tamil Nadu

It may be recalled that during the spate of terror killings in the mid-1993s in Tamil Nadu, the presence of Hindu organisations such as Hindu Munnani, RSS, and others, safeguarded the Hindu community through proactive measures.

(SALEM, India) - The gruesome murder of auditor Ramesh shook the nation and brought to light the hitherto unknown saga of jihadi targeting of Hindu leaders and functionaries of Hindu organisations in Tamil Nadu.

A group of volunteers undertook an investigation of jihadi murders in the State, with special focus on the period from April 2006- July 2013.

SRI LANKA: Vaiko Arrested for Staging Black Flag Demo Against PM

Members of Bharatha Munnetra Kazhagam were also arrested here after they tried to proceed with black flags from the Palakkarai area.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka TamilNet) - Mr. Vaiko along with party cadre and functionaries of Tamizhaga Vaazhvurimai Katchi, Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam and members of Students Federation of Tamil Nadu staged the demonstration a short distance from the airport.

Mr. Vaiko alleged that the Indian government, along with Sri Lanka, had a role in the genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils.

Six Things to Know Before Shark Week

On July 30, nonprofit shark research group OCEARCH and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) began the most ambitious great white shark-tagging mission undertaken in history.

(STATE COLLEGE, PA AccuWeather.com) - Before you dive into Shark Week on the Discovery Channel (Aug. 4 - 11), check out six things you may not know about sharks.

From anti-shark wetsuits to "Sharknado," you don't have to wait to find out what's new in the watery world of sharks.