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Intelsat blocks Iranian channels in Europe
WASHINGTON — International satellite services provider Intelsat has blocked Iran’s official broadcast channels in Europe, a company spokesman said Thursday. But it would not confirm or deny an Iranian...
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Rap star ‘Diddy’ suffers multiple injuries in crash
LOS ANGELES — Hip-hop icon and fashion mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs suffered “multiple injuries” including to his neck and collarbone in a car crash in Beverly Hills, a spokeswoman for the star said...
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Batman star calls China dissident ‘giant among men’
NEW YORK — Actor Christian Bale hailed Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng as a “giant among men” during an emotional meeting nearly a year after the Batman star was forcefully prevented from visiting...
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Panetta asks Congress to act on defense budget
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday demanded Congress take action after November elections to ensure stable funding for the US military and to break a partisan deadlock over the...
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First feathered dinosaur fossils found in North America
WASHINGTON — Scientists in Canada have unearthed the first fossils of a feathered dinosaur ever found in the Americas, the journal Science reported on Thursday. The 75 million year old fossil...
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CEO warns employees of ‘personal consequences’ if they vote for Obama
The owner of Rite-Hite, manufacturer of industrial equipment based in Milwaukee, has warned his employees that they face personal consequences if President Barack Obama is elected to a second term,...
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Top Romney surrogate: Powell endorsed Obama because he is black
John Sununu, a top surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, on Thursday night suggested that former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama because he is black. “I’m...
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Hurricane Sandy kills 21 in Caribbean, takes aim at U.S.
MIAMI — Hurricane Sandy pounded the Bahamas after claiming 21 lives in the Caribbean, including 11 people killed in eastern Cuba. The hurricane — now a category two storm — has wreaked havoc in...
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Fish near Fukushima still contaminated: study
WASHINGTON — Elevated levels of cesium found in fish off Japan’s east coast 18 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster suggest a “continuing source” of radiation in the ocean, a new study has...
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Stewart mocks Mourdock for having to deny he worships a rape-loving deity
On his show Thursday night, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show tore into Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. The GOP candidate recently said that pregnancies that result from rape were...
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Election 2012: Desperate struggle for women’s votes as race enters final stretch
The Democrats’ huge lead among female voters is crumbling. In the swing state of Florida, it’s not ‘women’s issues’ that will decide who they back – it’s jobs and the economy Angela Shaw does not...
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Sandy regains hurricane strength
Sandy regained hurricane strength on Saturday after briefly weakening to tropical storm status, the National Hurricane Center said. Air Force hurricane hunter planes registered sustained winds of 75...
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Former cricket captain turned politician Imran Khan detained and...
Former cricket captain turned politician detained on flight from Canada to New York to be questioned over his views on jihad Imran Khan, the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, was...
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Swing state polling still makes electoral college arithmetic hard for Romney
In national polls, Obama and Romney are virtually tied. But checking numbers in battleground states, the picture changes There are 11 days left in the presidential election, and the picture is static....
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Food Saturdays: Tempeh Stew
This is a dish that turned out better than I’d hoped: tempeh stew, which I served with buttermilk mashed potatoes and cornbread. I cobbled it together from a bunch of different recipes I found...
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Maher: Romney thinks a blow job is how the Pep Boys clean out a carburetor
On Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher took the discussion of “first time” voting as a sexual analogy a step further in his weekly “New Rules” segment. A vote for...
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Maddow: Is the Romney campaign hiding Paul Ryan?
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” in a segment called “Where’s Pauldo?” host Rachel Maddow wondered why vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been all but sidelined by the...
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Harris-Perry to Mourdock: Assaults on choice are assaults on women
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host Harris-Perry directed an open letter to Indiana candidate for U.S. Senate Richard Mourdock, the latest Republican candidate to go on the record saying...
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Former Powell Chief of Staff: ‘My party is full of racists’
Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Friday that the Republican Party is “full of racists,” and that the main reason most...
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Florida residents find long lines as early voting begins
Long lines quickly formed as early voting began in Florida on Saturday and electors confronted the longest ballot in their history, consisting of a range of choices from the next president to measures...
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