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** FILE ** Merzouga, Morocco. (Associated Press)

U.S. funding green jobs creation — in Morocco

The State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs plans to send $450,000 in federal funds to Morocco's coffers to create green jobs, CNS News reports.

September 13, 2013
** FILE ** President Obama stands with families who benefited from the health care law provision that provides consumers with a refund if their insurance company doesn’t spend the majority of premium dollars on medical care, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obamacare regulations reportedly 8 times longer than the Bible

Advocates of the Affordable Care Act often framed its passage as a moral imperative for a nation with millions of uninsured citizens. Ironically, it now turns out that the regulations that make up Obamacare are over eight times larger than the Gutenberg Bible.

September 10, 2013
Vehicle Production Group, or VPG, suspended operations after taking a loan of roughly $42 million from the federal government. (Image: VPG Facebook Page)

Energy Department loses $42 million on loan to Michigan company VPG

The Energy Department conceded Friday that the federal government will lose $42 million on a loan to a shuttered Michigan van manufacturer — part of the same program that provided a $529 million loan to an electric car maker that also has gone under.

September 6, 2013
An unidentified woman answers questions on a job application at a job fair in Sunrise, Fla., on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

Unemployment hits 13 percent for blacks

The Labor Department reported Friday that the national unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent in August after businesses added 169,000 jobs, but the jobless rate for blacks actually ticked up to 13.0 percent.

September 6, 2013
** FILE ** Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a "fireside chat" at a conference organized by technology blog TechCrunch in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Facebook’s Zuckerberg calls Internet access a ‘human right’

It's easy to get behind the intentions of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring the Web to billions of people. The language he's using to sell it may be a bit more contentious: the social media giant called Internet access "a human right."

August 22, 2013
** FILE ** Daniel Radcliffe is shown in a scene from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Researchers developing cloaking device that can ‘stop’ time

Imagine a thief who could steal an item off a shelf, cover it in a cloaking device, and for all intents and purposes cause the missing item to appear untouched to the human eye. Researchers at Northwestern University have made what was once considered science fiction a reality.

August 14, 2013
**FILE** A pedestrian using his cell phone stops outside a electronics shop in London on July 19, 2011, by television screens showing Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch during a select committee on the phone hacking scandal. (Associated Press)

London trash cans tracking citizens via smartphones

British trash cans are getting smart. Really smart. In fact, some of them have the capability to track which way citizens go to work and their daily behavior by tracking them through an identifier in their cell phones.

August 9, 2013