Tired of checking your regular mail and seeing nothing but bills and junk mail, well the bills are yours but the junk mail does not have to be. A new website can help you reduce the flow of unwanted mail.

After a week of trial runs, Mexico City's transportation authority, the RTP, formally launched a public transit program on January 21 to exclude men from riding certain city buses designated as women-only.

The Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix denied Sara Sloan her degree in journalism. The reason? She wrote an article about Kirk Cameron & his Christian organization. Panel members, assembled by her professor, condemned her for her religious bias.

A&W has won the first national Salt Lick Award for the distinction of serving a kid's meal with the highest sodium content, the Chubby Junior Kids' Meal has 1,910 milligrams of sodium

The French police are switching their office computers from Microsoft operating systems to Linux. The move will mark one of the biggest administrations in the world to have a clean break with Microsoft.

The housing industry shakeout can now be said to have happened. After the boom, the nosedive. Housing sales for new homes are the lowest since 1996, just 20,000 above the figure for that year. Obviously, some people baled out before the train wreck.

Everex released a low-cost PC for $199 during the holiday season, and the company is now unveiling an ultramobile version at the Consumer and Electronics Show for $399. The Linux system has a wireless Internet connection and many free programs.

Stocks of grain and of rice, wheat and maize are down at levels not seen since the early 1980s. Experts are predicting that the next 12 to 24 months may see violence erupt across the globe as food shortages cause panic. We consume more than we produce.

General Motors Corp. executives say that cars that drive and park themselves could be ready for sale within the next decade. Such vehicles would revolutionize travel and that is just what GM, suppliers, engineers, and automakers are working on.

A new law went into effect in Michigan on July 1, 2001 which made it easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons. Has there been an increase in gun deaths or a decrease?

In the Dordogne region of southwest France, lies a cave that houses Ice Age art dating back some 17,000 years ago. The walls and the art on them are now being consumed by bacteria and an unidentified black fungus.

Intel has resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Program's board of directors, according to reports circulating through tech and business media. Intel reportedly quit after OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said Intel should kill its Classmate PC program.

The North American Free Trade Agreement is in effect and farmers in Mexico are worried that the import of U.S. corn, for example, into Mexico will cause them harm so they have staged a protest.

As the world mourns the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, a video is making it's rounds across the Internet. In an interview aired on Nov. 3 of this year, Pakistan's former Prime Minister states matter-of-factly that Osama Bin Laden was murdered.

There are 24 states that ban smoking in restaurants according to the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation. Michigan's House voted to ban smoking but the Senate sent the bill to a committee to die.

A Republican Congressman from Texas, another from Colorado, and one from California, all three have something in common besides currently campaigning for the presidency, with little if any support from their party.

In an effort to strengthen the site's news reportage, Digital Journal is stepping in to offer editorial rules for the type of articles that should be published on DJ. We're the open forum with a news focus.

I’ve seen them dozens of times. Those fluffy white lines criss-crossing the sky. They create patterns and designs I’ve always found curious. My online investigation of these trails turned up some mighty frightening stuff.....

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul has denounced what he calls the NAFTA Superhighway.

Is there a scientific consensus on the topic of man made global warming? If you read the news in the major media you would have cause to believe that there is.