SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - Workers at the Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day but will instead be given the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr as a holiday. 

First, libraries were forced to start filtering out obscene content in 2000. Now, lawmakers are trying to ban children from accessing MySpace and Facebook on library PCs in order to keep the kids safe from sexual predators.

Not long ago, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrived at work on Capitol Hill to find a line of SUVs waiting with their engines idling to pick up their passengers.

One of Jimi Hendrix’s favorite guitars, set on fire on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this year.

The price of oil is at near-record highs. And that’s driving the biggest transfer of wealth in human history. Manraaj says that in the next 5 years oil exporting countries are going to buy-up foreign assets worth 3x as much as the entire British economy

Invented and bankrolled by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, the 11-by-26 foot National Debt Clock was erected in 1989. When it first was plugged in, the odometer-style clock whirred furiously as the national debt rose by $13,000 a second.

Senator Ted Kennedy, who suffers from a life-threatening brain tumor that requires daily treatment, has now officially voted more times in the last few months than John McCain. And Kennedy's only voted once since being diagnosed on May 20.