Oil company and US state embroiled in war of words over the clean-up operations after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster BP and one of the US Gulf states most affected by pollution from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010 have become embroiled in an acrimonious slanging match over the oil...
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BP accuses Louisiana leaders of ‘political grandstanding’ over Deepwater Horizon disaster
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Soldier who publicly opposed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell killed in automobile accident
Army Sgt. Darren Manzella, an early public opponent of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for U.S. troops, was killed Thursday night in an auto accient, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Manzella was killed after being pinned in between a sport-utility vehicle and his car...
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NFL quarterback’s bodyguards to be tried for shooting at wedding photographers
Three bodyguards working for American football star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen are to stand trial in Costa Rica after firing shots at two photographers during an altercation at the couple’s 2009 wedding. A court in Puntarenas, on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, set a...
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AT&T and T-Mobile embroiled in legal fight over the color magenta
AT&T to roll out a nationwide, no-contract service called Aio (via The Christian Science Monitor) T-Mobile CEO John Legere speaks during news conference in New York in July 2013. T-Mobile challenged Aio Wireless’ use of the color magenta in advertisements announcing Aio’s expanding...
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Federal court upholds California ban on foie gras sales
A US federal appeals court upheld California’s ban on the sale of foie gras Friday, 13 months after the block on the controversial delicacy came into force. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that the ban interferes with free trade, made in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by a...
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Roger Waters backs Bulgarian protesters during performance of ‘The Wall’
Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters backed anti-government protests in Bulgaria over the past two-and-a-half months during his show “The Wall Live” in Sofia late Friday. Red captions “No fucking way” and “Ostavka” in Cyrillic — which means resignation...
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Cornel West calls Al Sharpton ‘the bonafide house negro of the Obama plantation’
Dr. Cornel West ripped Wednesday’s 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington in his radio show with Tavis Smiley on Friday, lamenting that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself would have been rolling in his grave seeing how his “I Have A Dream” speech was honored....
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Hell’s Angels members plead guilty to murder conspiracy charges in Canada
Twenty-seven Hell’s Angels members have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder in part of a wide-ranging Canadian prosecution of the notorious motorcycle gang’s activities, officials said. More than 150 Hell’s Angels were arrested in 2009 after a major crackdown on five branches...
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Mexico ships first load of premium tequila to China
Mexico sent its first shipment of 100 percent blue agave tequila to China, hoping to finally break into what sellers say could soon be their second biggest market. The shipment consisted of more than 70,000 bottles of the highest quality tequila, with a total value of more than $400,000, according...
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Republican Mississippi sheriff indicted on 31 counts for abusing powers
The sheriff for Jackson County, Mississippi was indicted Friday on 31 criminal counts and accused of abusing his position to not only order a female deputy to give him sexual favors, but pursue a murder case against the wishes of an investigating detective. WKRG-TV reported on Friday that the...
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Minnesota Democrat running to become state’s first trans woman in Congress
A 59-year-old Democratic congressional candidate is pushing to become the first trans woman from Minnesota to serve as a federal lawmaker. According to Roll Call, Paula Overby has filed the required paperwork to enter the Democratic primary field in hopes of unseating Rep. John Kline (R-MN). Kline...
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More radiation ‘hotspots’ found near Fukushima nuclear plant
The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said Saturday it had found new radiation hotspots near tanks storing toxic water, with one reading peaking at 1,800 millisieverts per hour — a potentially lethal dose. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) detected high radiation...
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Melissa Harris-Perry slams Montana judge: You’re sounding a lot like Todd ‘legitimate rape’ Akin
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry had harsh words for G. Todd Baugh, the Montana judge who has drawn national criticism over his decision to give a 49-year-old man a 30-day jail sentence for the rape of a 14-year-old girl who later committed suicide. “If I didn’t know any better,...
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Italy turns to German nanotech to preserve ruins of Pompeii
German archaeologists to use nanotechnology as Italians come under pressure from Unesco over vandalism With the greatest number of Unesco world heritage sites, and state coffers that do not have much to spare for the culture sector, Italy has long worried how to protect its heritage.from ruin Now...
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Republicans already split on how to address Syria vote
While President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would ask Congress to sign off on a strike against the Syrian government, Republican lawmakers had mixed reactions to the plan, with House Homeland Security Committee chair Rep. Peter King (R-NY) accusing Obama of sidestepping his duties as...
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Famed designer Oscar De la Renta criticizes ‘circus’ surrounding Fashion Week
Couturier halves his guest list for show in New York as critics say too many poseurs crowd the runways Some of America’s most prominent fashionistas are calling time on the overcrowding, demand for endless “newness” and general hoopla that has become an obsession in the industry....
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Twitter’s top free-speech advocate steps down
Counsel, who described Twitter as ‘the free speech wing of the free speech party’, fiercely defended users’ privacy Alex Macgillivray, the key figure responsible for Twitter’s aggressively pro-free speech position, has announced he is to leave the company. The...
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Nationalists and environmentalists square off at protest against Japanese dolphin hunt
Environmentalists staged a rally in Tokyo Saturday to protest the start of Japan’s annual dolphin hunt, which was made infamous by an Academy Award-winning documentary. The rally organiser, Action for Marine Mammals, said it was one a number of demonstrations taking place around the world...
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Keith Olbermann dissects CBS columnist’s callous take on NFL concussion victims
Keith Olbermann coolly picked apart a CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco’s craven dismissal of the risks professional football players take of sustaining brain injuries in a commentary Friday night, using the online columnist’s own “nasty” words to highlight Prisco’s own...
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White House sends resolution to Congress asking for approval on Syria strikes
The White House formally asked Congress Saturday for authorization to conduct military strikes in Syria in a draft resolution framing a narrow set of operations, in a bid to ease fears of another open-ended war. The document says support from Congress, requested by President Barack Obama in a...
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