NBC host confronts LaPierre’s call for more ‘good guys with guns’: ‘Where...
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...
View ArticleChina’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...
View ArticleRegulator sues 13 banks in Libor rate-fixing case for selling nearly $2.4...
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...
View ArticleScrew 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...
View ArticleWorsening water scarcity due to climate change threatens 2 billion people...
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...
View Article‘Outdated’ UN Security Council ‘undemocratic’: South African President Jacob...
South African President Jacob Zuma criticised the United Nations Security Council as ‘outdated’ and ‘undemocratic’ ahead of a world leaders’ meeting in New York, according to a report Tuesday.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...
View ArticleWhy 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…
View Article‘We are not monsters,’ Nairobi attacker told British four-year-old boy before...
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....
View ArticleBill 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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...
View ArticleU2′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...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon illustrates how annoying hashtags are and why you should stop...
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...
View ArticleAnti-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...
View ArticleSenate 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...
View ArticleU.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....
View ArticleTreasury Secretary explains: The debt ceiling only allows U.S. to pay for...
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...
View ArticleDeputies: 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...
View ArticleDemocrat’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...
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