Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America’s most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites [...]

Latest figures have shown an ongoing surge in the rate of obesity in 23 US states, indicating that Americans are becoming fatter than they were one year ago. 
While the obesity rate among adults has continued to increase, the report shows the rate as having a steady but alarming trend among children. 
According to the report recently [...]

WASHINGTON — The nation’s unemployment rolls swelled by 467,000 in June, reversing a recent trend of slowing job losses and raising questions about a widely anticipated second-half recovery.
The unemployment rate edged up only slightly, to 9.5% from 9.4% as 155,000 Americans left the work force, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in its monthly survey. Many [...]

The digital ad industry will announce Thursday sweeping new self-policing guidelines aimed at providing consumers with options for how they want to interact with online ad businesses that gather data about them.
The $8.5 billion ad industry is hoping to ease consumer privacy concerns and give people more choices, including an “opt-out,” about what is known [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — When the United Football League debuts in October, Michael Vick could be one of its players.
Michael Huyghue, the commissioner of the new four-team league, says the UFL is willing to give Vick a place to play — provided there are no pending legal issues. His rights belong to the Orlando franchise.
“One [...]

Step 1 for a ticket to Michael Jackson’s memorial service: Register at staplescenter.com. Tim Leiweke of concert promoter AEG Live on Friday announced ticketing details for the service, to be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT at the Staples Center:
There will be 17,500 tickets for fans; 11,000 at Staples Center and 6,500 for the Nokia Theater [...]

A national poll indicates that nearly half of all Americans think the economy has stabilized, but only one in eight believes that a recovery has started.Four in 10 questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday morning think the country’s still in an economic downturn.
“Although polls in recent months have shown some signs of [...]

Taliban fighters in Afghanistan faced a vise grip from a big U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan and a Pakistani troop deployment at the border to halt militants fleeing the push. The U.S. military did not immediately provide details of the fighting when it announced the push Thursday, but a Taliban spokesman said the group’s fighters had [...]

 
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The battered U.S. labor market took a step backwards last month as employers trimmed more jobs from their payrolls in June, according to a government report Thursday.
There was a net loss of 467,000 jobs in June, compared with a revised loss of 322,000 jobs in May. This was the first time [...]

ScienceDaily (July 1, 2009) — The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on vegetarian diets that concludes such diets, if well-planned, are healthful and nutritious for adults, infants, children and adolescents and can help prevent and treat chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
ADA’s position, published in the July issue of the Journal of the [...]