A 25-year-old Florida man was arrested and charged with animal cruelty on Thursday for allegedly killing his family’s dog, then cooking it and eating it. The Tampa Tribune reported on Friday that authorities picked up Thomas Huggins after being alerted by his his mother, Margie Huggins, that...
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Florida man accused of killing and cooking family dog
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Prop. 8 backers ask Supreme Court to stop new same sex marriages
The group that sponsored California’s Proposition 8 filed an overnight petition to the Supreme Court asking it to block a federal appeal’s court decision to give the state the go-ahead to resume allowing same sex couples to marry. The Los Angeles Times reported that...
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Dept. of Agriculture approves horse slaughterhouse amid lawsuit threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A New Mexico meat plant received federal approval on Friday to slaughter horses for meat, a move that drew immediate opposition from animal rights group and will likely be opposed by the White House. The U.S. Agriculture Department said it was required by law to issue a...
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Battle of Gettysburg re-enactment shows lingering racial tensions
General John Gordon led troops for the South at Gettysburg 150 years ago in the US Civil War before becoming a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, the infamous white supremacist organization. Yet, in a sign of a United States still tormented by racial issues, today a military base in Georgia carries his...
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Wendy Davis: Texas GOP anti-abortion law is ‘big government intrusion’
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) continued her public sparring with Gov. Rick Perry (R) over both a state bill that would close all but five of the state’s abortion providers and Perry’s recent criticism of the filibuster she initiated that led to the bill failing to pass on June 25....
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Rival bands of Egyptian protesters steel themselves for battle on Sunday
By Alexander Dziadosz CAIRO (Reuters) – Rival protesters in Egypt’s capital insist they want to avoid bloodshed during mass rallies against President Mohamed Mursi on Sunday, but both are clearly ready for a confrontation. As the opposing sides vie for the revolution’s mantle,...
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Croatia to join European Union on Sunday
By Zoran Radosavljevic ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union at midnight on Sunday, a milestone that caps the Adriatic republic’s recovery from war but is tinged with anxiety over the state of the economy and the bloc it joins. EU flags fluttered from...
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Coulter: Immigration push gives Democrats ’30 million unskilled, law-breaking voters’
In a far-ranging interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, conservative columnist Ann Coulter said that the immigration bill recently passed by the Senate was not only akin to the death of the entire Supreme Court, but that it signaled the end of the Republican party. “All the Democrats care...
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Researchers find star system with 3 ‘Super Earths’
Four habitable planets orbiting three tiny suns? New first in planet-hunting. (via The Christian Science Monitor) Three, perhaps even four potentially habitable planets are orbiting a star in a triple-star system some 22 light-years from Earth, a team of astronomers announced Tuesday. It’s...
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Anti-government protests continue in Istanbul
Thousands gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Saturday to protest against the harsh police treatment of demonstrators whose anti-government rallies have rocked the country for nearly a month. Riot police blocked off the centre of the square, the symbolic heart of the nationwide protest...
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Vanderbilt suspends four football players amid sex crime investigation
Vanderbilt University football players suspended in sex crimes investigation (via The Christian Science Monitor) Vanderbilt University has dismissed four football players from the team and suspended them from the university as the result of a sex crimes investigation. A statement on the school’s...
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Unique institute unites capitalists who want to save the world
The consultant holds a russet ankle boot in his right hand, gesturing as if it were a conductor’s baton. Robert Reich, a University of Colorado business professor, is providing some blunt-spoken mentoring at the Unreasonable Institute, a summer camp for capitalists who want to change the...
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Chad’s former dictator arrested in Senegal
Senegalese authorities detained former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre on Sunday, the first step towards a trial on charges of crimes against humanity that is seen by many as a milestone for African justice. The man once dubbed “Africa’s Pinochet” also stands accused of war crimes...
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Study: Mega-quakes behind ‘sinking volcano’ phenomenon
Massive earthquakes can cause distant volcanoes to sink, according to research in Japan and Chile published on Sunday. The magnitude 9.0 tsunami-generating quake that occurred off northeastern Japan in 2011 caused subsidence of up to 15 centimetres (9.3 inches) in a string of volcanoes on the...
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Gulf states, EU agree to push Syria peace talks
The Gulf Arab nations and the European Union pledged Sunday to pool their efforts to help convene a peace conference on Syria, as they wrapped up a one-day ministerial meeting in Bahrain. The gathering attended by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and the foreign ministers of the six-nation...
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Obama urges Africa’s leaders to ‘serve their people’
US President Barack Obama warned Sunday that Africa could only fulfil its rising potential with leaders who strive to improve the lives of their people, decrying “thugs and warlords” who hold back the promise of the continent. In a strident call for democratic change and good...
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Supreme Court shoots down last-ditch effort to stop same sex marriage in California
The US Supreme Court has rejected an emergency bid to reinstate California’s ban on same-sex marriage, The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers for the gay couples who sued to lift the ban, said he had received word that the justice tasked with...
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New NSA leak documents show how the US is bugging its European allies
By Ewen MacAskill in Rio de Janeiro and Julian Borger US intelligence services are spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington, according to the latest top secret US National Security Agency documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. One document lists...
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Germany blasts U.S. for spying on officials ‘like a Cold War enemy’
Transatlantic relations plunged at the weekend as Berlin, Brussels and Paris all demanded that Washington account promptly and fully for new disclosures on the scale of the US National Security Agency’s spying on its European allies. As further details emerged of the huge reach of US...
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Thousands expected at Texas Capitol as sweeping abortion bill returns
Thousands of Texans on both sides of the abortion divide will descend on the state capitol in Austin on Monday, at the start of a special legislative session designed to pass a bill that would sharply restrict abortion services in the state. More than 5,000 people have signed up to a “Stand...
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