NBC host David Gregory on Sunday asked National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre how many guns would be enough after the lobbyist called for more armed guards in response to last week’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard — just as he had done after last year’s Sandy...
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NBC host confronts LaPierre’s call for more ‘good guys with guns’: ‘Where does it stop?’
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China’s richest man aims to rival Hollywood
An ambitious studio complex built by China’s richest man will be a major boost for the country’s film industry but experts say it needs more than sprawling grounds to rival Hollywood. Global A-listers Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine Zeta-Jones showed up on Sunday for the...
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Regulator sues 13 banks in Libor rate-fixing case for selling nearly $2.4 billion in ‘faulty securities’ to credit unions
The US credit union regulator has filed an anti-trust lawsuit against 13 major international banks as part of the global crackdown in the Libor rate-rigging scandal. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said it aims to recover some of the funds lost by five corporate credit unions it...
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Screw virality! Antisocial networks are on the rise
By Sarah Lacy On September 23, 2013I’ve compared Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates before. It’s both a flattering and unflattering comparison. The parallels aren’t perfect, but both men have built huge and defensible businesses by commanding monopoly…
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Worsening water scarcity due to climate change threatens 2 billion people globally
Worsening Water Scarcity to Affect 2 Billion Globally (via Climate Central) By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network LONDON - Water scarcity is a fact of life in many parts of the world, particularly in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. A new study says the situation could get a lot worse, with...
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‘Outdated’ UN Security Council ‘undemocratic’: South African President Jacob Zuma
South African President Jacob Zuma criticised the United Nations Security Council as ‘outdated’ and ‘undemocratic’ ahead of a world leaders’ meeting in New York, according to a report Tuesday. The current Security Council “might have by now outlived its...
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Why do people want to eat babies? Scientists explain.
If you’re like most normal people, you’ve briefly considered eating a baby or two. Why is that, anyway? Why do babies always seem so delicious, even when…
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‘We are not monsters,’ Nairobi attacker told British four-year-old boy before handing him a Mars chocolate bar
One of the Islamist attackers besieging a Nairobi shopping mall handed chocolate to a four-year-old British boy caught up in the crisis and asked for forgiveness, his uncle told a newspaper on Tuesday. Four-year-old Elliott Prior, who had been shopping with his mother and sister at the Westgate...
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Bill Clinton insists ‘I honestly don’t know’ if Hillary will run in 2016
Former President Bill Clinton insisted to David Letterman that he doesn’t know if his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will run for president in 2016. “I honestly don’t know,” Clinton said during his appearance Monday night on The Late Show. “(Our daughter), Chelsea, doesn’t know,...
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Two young sisters found dead in washing machine: reports
Two young sisters were found dead in a bloody washing machine at a house in eastern China at the weekend, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Local police in Jiangxi province have ruled out murder in the case, the Global Times newspaper said, citing the official Xinhua news agency. Police confirmed that...
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New NASA map shows where you are most likely to die from air pollution
Each year millions of premature deaths world-wide result from various forms of air pollution. According to a new atmospheric pollution model designed by earth scientist Jason West of the University of North Carolina (data from which informs the NASA…
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Canadian church bars gay student from volunteering with children
A 20-year-old Saint Thomas University student says that a Canadian church dismissed him from his job volunteering in the children’s ministry because of his sexual orientation. In a Monday interview with Global News, Colin Briggs explained that he had volunteered at the Crosspoint Wesleyan...
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U2′s Bono does hilarious imitation of Pres. Bill Clinton at fundraiser
Bono Vox, lead singer of the Irish rock band U2 unveiled his dead-on, eerily accurate impression of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton on Tuesday. Rolling Stone magazine reported that the musician and activist was on stage at a fundraising event in New York City for the Clinton Global Initiative, the...
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Jimmy Fallon illustrates how annoying hashtags are and why you should stop using them so much
Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake highlighted just how annoying the overuse of hashtags can sound by engaging in an everyday conversation interrupted by the ubiquitous social media convention. The pair discussed cookies, television, a trip to the dentist and Halloween costumes during “Late...
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Anti-LGBT activist suggests ‘homosexual sodomy was created to spread disease’
The founder of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, a group dedicated to opposing equal rights for LGBT people, said on Wednesday that the United States was on a “moral decline” because of same sex marriage promoted “homosexual sodomy,” which seemed to be “created...
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Senate Leader Harry Reid: There’s no filibuster going on now
The US Senate faces a Sunday showdown over whether to keep government running, but bickering over President Barack Obama’s signature health care law is bringing federal agencies dangerously close to a shutdown. A fractured Congress is struggling to approve a stopgap spending bill that keeps...
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U.S. signs landmark United Nations weapons trade treaty
US President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday signed a landmark UN treaty regulating the $90 billion conventional arms trade, offering a major boost to the pact despite opposition at home. The United States is the world’s largest exporter of conventional arms. The treaty would...
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Treasury Secretary explains: The debt ceiling only allows U.S. to pay for spending Congress has already approved
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Wednesday the US government will have no more flexibility to juggle spending and meet its obligations after October 17, under a statutory debt cap. Lew told Congress that, after months of maneuvers to meet government commitments without added borrowing, those...
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Deputies: Florida man tried to pay water bill with crack cocaine
A Florida public works office was evacuated Monday after a man handed over an envelope containing white powder to pay his water bill. After emergency crews investigated, they determined the powder was actually crack cocaine. Sheriff’s deputies in Volusia County said customers often drop off...
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Democrat’s Obamacare question stumps Ted Cruz during faux filibuster
During Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s epic “faux-libuster” Tuesday night, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) managed to briefly flummox the junior Senator from Texas by asking him about some of the real world consequences faced by people who are denied health care coverage under the current system....
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