George Zimmerman’s brother thinks Obama ‘tapped’ his phones
Robert Zimmerman says that his family has not spoken to his brother, George Zimmerman, since he was acquitted for the murder of Trayvon Martin because President Barack Obama’s administration may be...
View ArticleJim Cramer of CNBC insists that Elizabeth Warren takedown ‘had NO impact’
Jim Cramer of financial news network CNBC, the man who famously urged investors to buy Bear Stearns stock a week before the company collapsed, has set his sights on Sen. Elizabeth Warren. According to...
View ArticleUtah lawmaker calls for an end to compulsory education
A Republican lawmaker in Utah is calling on his state to put an end to the requirement that children go to school. On Tuesday, Deseret News flagged a Friday article posted to state Sen. Aaron Osmond’s...
View ArticleSnoop: Zimmerman prosecution was lacking because Trayvon Martin was black
Reggae artist Snoop Lion, formerly known as rap artist Snoop Dogg, said at a press event for his new film “Turbo” on Wednesday that he felt the prosecution in the Zimmerman murder trial was lacking...
View ArticleUN ambassador nominee Samantha Power criticizes world body’s ‘unacceptable’...
President Barack Obama’s nominee for UN ambassador on Wednesday slammed the global body’s “unacceptable bias” against Israel, even as detractors criticize her past statements about America’s closest...
View ArticleSchool board members among 109 New Jerseyans faking income for free school...
New Jersey state Comptroller Matthew Boxer announced on Wednesday that 109 public employees, spouses and family members will be prosecuted on fraud charges after a state investigation (PDF) found they...
View ArticleFlorida highway closed after drone crashes with still-active ‘small...
An unmanned drone aircraft fell from the sky and exploded by a Florida highway on Wednesday morning, snarling traffic and closing the road for the next 24 hours. According to a statement from Florida’s...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on controversial ‘Rolling...
US magazine Rolling Stone was under fire Wednesday for placing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover, which critics said treats the Boston bombing suspect almost like a pop celebrity. This week’s cover of the...
View ArticleRachel Jeantel schools Limbaugh on the N-word: ‘It is racist for an adult’ to...
Trayvon Martin’s friend, Rachel Jeantel, has never heard of Rush Limbaugh but she knows a racist when she sees one. In an interview with HuffPost Live on Wednesday, Jeantel said that it felt “racist”...
View ArticleBolshoi violinist dies in tragic orchestra fall
Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre was Wednesday mourning a new tragedy after a senior violinist died after falling into the orchestra pit, the Moscow company’s spokeswoman said. Violinist Viktor Sedov, 65, a...
View ArticleNew York pedophile pleads guilty to raping girl and murdering her mother
New York resident David Renz, 29, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to allegations that he raped a 10-year-old girl and murdered her mother, in a broad-daylight attack that began in a shopping mall parking...
View ArticleJudge tells Bradley Manning she won’t dismiss charges of ‘aiding the enemy’...
Defense team ‘extraordinarily disappointed’ after Col Denise Lind declines to throw out charges against WikiLeaks source The judge presiding over the court martial of the WikiLeaks source Bradley...
View ArticleIssa’s own IRS witnesses deny ‘political motives’ against tea party
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) was told by his own witnesses on Thursday that there was no political motivation behind the scrutiny of tea party groups...
View ArticleKey prosecution witness in ‘Whitey’ Bulger trial found dead
Authorities say that a body found Wednesday afternoon near Lincoln, Massachusetts is that of former gangster Stephen “Stippo” Rakes, who was a key witness for the prosecution in the trial of notorious...
View ArticleAustralian firm launches ‘anti-shark’ wetsuits
An Australian research firm Thursday launched what is being touted as the world’s first anti-shark wetsuit, using new discoveries about the predators’ eyesight to stave off or evade an attack. Working...
View ArticleCoalition seeks release of surveillance data
A coalition of Internet firms and activist organizations asked the US government Thursday to issue “transparency reports” on its online and phone data collection programs which have sparked an outcry....
View ArticleYoung generation gets into spirit of Mandela day
Sixteen-year-old Genius Molefe wasn’t born when Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president, but she joined many South Africans in 67 minutes of community service marking his birthday...
View ArticleBryan Fischer: Americans have a ‘patriotic duty to worship God’
The director of issues analysis of the fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA) told his radio listeners that they and every American had a “patriotic duty to worship God.” On his Wednesday...
View ArticleFEMA caught using old data for new flood maps that cost homeowners untold...
When Donna Edgar found out that new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would place her house in a high-risk flood zone, she couldn’t believe it. Her home, on the ranch she and her...
View ArticleMassachusetts man says Stevie Nicks told him to steal ferry boat
A 62-year-old Malden, Massachusetts man who was found adrift on a 68-foot ferry boat in Boston Harbor on Christmas Day told police that Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks was his girlfriend, and that he...
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