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Ex-Marine serving rape sentence says he’s been sexually assaulted by female...
A military veteran serving a sentence for rape said he’s been sexually assaulted more than 10 times by female guards and employees. Former Marine Lance Cpl. Shane Bardes was convicted of raping two...
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Catholic bishop performs ‘exorcism’ with armed officers over Illinois same...
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas John Paprocki kept his promise on Wednesday and performed an “exorcism” on the state of Illinois after Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed a bill legalizing same sex marriage....
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Oklahoma blocks spousal benefits to National Guard to avoid including same...
Oklahoma’s governor ordered the state’s national guard to halt all spousal enrollment for benefits rather than allow same sex couples to receive the same benefits as heterosexual marriages. According...
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London police rescue three women held captive in domestic slavery for 30 years
British police on Thursday rescued three women from a house in London where they are believed to have been held as slaves for at least 30 years. Scotland Yard police headquarters said the victims were...
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Why Is Preventive Care So Anxiety-Inducing?
Not all preventive care is anxiety-inducing. But there’s two kinds of medical care that the hand-wringers who don’t understand science very well always denounce at the slightest provocation: Birth...
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Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal: Republicans must shed image as ‘party of no’
Republican governors’ leader Bobby Jindal turned on his party’s national leadership on Wednesday, calling on the GOP to suggest alternative ideas for healthcare and immigration reform rather than...
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Potential 2016 contender Marco Rubio urges an interventionist foreign policy
Republican Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 White House contender, urges the projection of US global power in the name of liberty — an interventionist strategy at odds with isolationists in his party....
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Arizona teen says flying Confederate flag on his pickup led to hate crime at...
An Arizona teenager says a classmate may have targeted him in a hate crime and his school has violated his free speech rights over his display of a Confederate flag. Jacob Green, a junior at Millennium...
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Hate crimes charges after students fasten bike lock around black roommate’s...
Three students at San Jose State University have been charged with misdemeanor hate crimes and battery after being accused of tormenting a black roommate. University police announced on Wednesday that...
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Gaza zoo blames Israel after two lion cubs die
Two lion cubs born in Gaza this week and named in honour of Hamas’ last major clash with Israel died on Thursday, a zoo official said. “The lions named Fajr and Sijil (Dawn and Clay in Arabic) died...
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Reporters accuse White House of preventing the public from ‘having an...
White House reporters and photographers on Thursday accused top officials of deliberately blocking access to President Barack Obama and of substituting its own “visual press releases” for independent...
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Principal admits in email that school’s position is ‘indefensible’ in...
A Colorado school has cut its ties to an evangelical Christian charity organization after intervention by a national rights group. The American Humanist Association (AHA) told Raw Story that the group...
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Senate Democrats drop the ‘nuclear option’ on Republicans and limit filibusters
The US Senate took the potentially explosive step Thursday of changing its rules to allow executive and lower court nominees to be approved by a simple majority vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
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House GOP unlikely to discipline coke-sniffing Rep. Trey Radel, but ethics...
Despite a guilty plea on cocaine charges, Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) insists he won’t resign and will likely avoid disciplinary action from House Republicans. But an ethics watchdog filed a complaint...
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Fox Business host: Social Security Disability turns men into ‘modern-day...
Fox Business host Charles Payne recently told a group of conservatives that Social Security Disability Insurance was turning American men into “modern-day eunuchs.” Speaking to David Horowitz’s...
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Venus orbits the Sun inside huge ‘zodiacal cloud’ of space dust
Scientists have discovered that Venus circles the sun embedded within a huge band of dust that is 10-15 million kilometres high and stretches all the way around its orbit. The finding will help...
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This is your brain on poverty: Sanders and Warren probe insidious...
While most Americans think of poverty in material terms, said the senate’s lone independent, its effects were more insidious and long-lasting. The U.S. Senate subcommittee on primary health and aging...
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‘Birther’ website: New violence charges against Zimmerman are liberal media plot
A writer for the website World Net Daily — a hub for “Birther” conspiracists and other anti-Obama true believers — has penned a column in defense of George Zimmerman, the gunman who fatally shot...
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School officials threatened to be ‘lined up and shot’ after Fox News...
A school board member in South Dakota is calling on Fox News to apologize because he says an erroneous report led to threats that officials be “lined up and shot” over the Pledge of Allegiance. Sioux...
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Lego-style crime mural becomes hit in Malaysia despite officials’ objections
A street mural that was whitewashed by authorities because it highlighted Malaysia’s crime problem has gone viral, with versions popping up across the country and earning their creator comparisons to...
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