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Here’s How Much Income Puts You In The Top One Percent Of Your Age Group

The richest percentile of Americans makes many hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. So how could a $135,000 salary make you a one-percenter? If you’re 31 or younger, that figure puts you ahead of 99 percent of your age group. To determine what salary you’d have to earn at every age to stay in […] Read More →

Hoax “FBI Gun Violence Map” Goes Viral on Facebook

Christine Rousselle This “map” of “statistics” has been going around Facebook for a while, and recently made a bit of a resurgence. The map purports to show a correlation between areas of high crime and votes for Obama in 2012. There’s one problem—it’s a hoax. From a quick glance at the map, several problems immediately […] Read More →

3D Tattoos: The Bizarre Body Art Trend That Is Spreading Across America Like Wildfire

Michael Snyder | American Dream Would you like to have a picture of a 3D demon exploding out of your chest? Would you like to make it look like an exquisite piece of art was carved out of your right leg? Would you like to see the shock on people’s faces when they think that […] Read More →

FCC will soon Decide whether broadband should be redefined to as much as 25Mbps

As the internet becomes an increasingly integral part of our daily lives, our need for speed continues to grow. Although dial-up connections once sufficed for browsing the web back in the olden days, the range of services, features and entire platforms that we now rely on every day require the kind of connection speeds that many […] Read More →

MH370: Missing plane search ‘most challenging ever’

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the “most challenging” ever seen, the man responsible for co-ordinating the search from Australia says. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the “most challenging” ever seen, the man responsible for co-ordinating the search from Australia says. Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston also said […] Read More →

US employment changes since 2004, at a glance

U.S. employers have added slightly more than 2 million jobs in each of the past two years — an average of roughly 182,000 jobs a month. Even so, that steady hiring has yet to fully repair the damage caused by the Great Recession. After four years of recovery, the gains remain 1.2 million jobs shy […] Read More →

A glance at Zimmerman trial, verdict, what’s next

George Zimmerman’s trial in the shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin lasted nearly three weeks and concluded Saturday night with an acquittal. The case prompted debate nationwide over racial profiling, self-defense and equal justice. ___ THE VERDICT Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, was found not guilty of second-degree murder in last year’s death of […] Read More →

The San Francisco plane crash at a glance

A look at Saturday’s crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport: — WHAT HAPPENED: The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul, South Korea. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped in Seoul before the long trek to San Francisco. — PACKED FLIGHT: […] Read More →