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Tea party activist: Obamanauts will stage false flag financial collapse to...

Jerome Corsi, a tea party activist and World Net Daily senior staff reporter, predicted Monday that a financial meltdown would be staged to keep President Barack Obama in power. “Oh, they’ll stage...

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Scientists discover new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than...

A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto. The newly discovered gas, perfluorotributylamine (PFTBA),...

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Fox News host flips over atheist holiday display: ‘Baby Jesus is behind the...

Fox News host Gretchen Carlson on Tuesday lashed out at atheists in Florida for putting up a Festivus display next to a Christian display at the state Capitol building. Last week, Gov. Rick Scott’s (R)...

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California cop charged in sex assault of mentally disabled woman and six others

A West Sacramento, CA police officer is accused of sexual assaults on seven women, including a 30-year-old woman who court documents describe as “mentally disabled.” The Sacramento Bee reported that...

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WATCH LIVE: Uruguay poised to be first country to legalize marijuana

Uruguay was poised Tuesday to pass a ground-breaking bill that will make the South American country the first anywhere to legalize the production and sale of marijuana, under state control. “The war...

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Mexican suspect linked to more than 200 murders by the time he was 30

Mexican police have arrested a man accused of ordering and participating in the murders of more than 200 people, including kidnap victims, rival gang members and drug dealers, authorities said Tuesday....

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Lockheed Martin agrees to study ‘mission concept’ for commercial Mars colony

A Dutch entrepreneur’s bold quest to colonize Mars won high-profile support Tuesday from a US aerospace giant, although the timetable for putting humans on the red planet has been pushed back two...

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Sword-wielding Texas man threatens waitress: Give me free tacos or somebody dies

A 28-year-old sword-wielding Texas man was arrested and charged with robbery after allegedly threatening the staff at a local restaurant with death over free tacos. WOAI-TV reported that Adam Benjamin...

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Collection of letters from Russian tsars sells for nearly $850,000 in Geneva

More than 230 letters from Russian tsars and their families, packed with the secrets of the imperial court, have sold in Geneva for ten times their asking price, auctioneers said Tuesday. The...

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Egypt grants permits to 171 ‘illegal’ Syrian immigrants

Egypt said Tuesday it has granted three-month residence permits to 171 out of a total of 206 Syrian and Palestinian immigrants who were detained for illegally entering the country. Foreign ministry...

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Georgia woman glued to Home Depot toilet seat in ugly prank

A Georgia woman is free, but hurt and angry after getting glued to a Home Depot toilet seat in an apparent prank, WSB-TV reported. “I’m a grown woman who can’t even sit up,” the victim, Illyanna De La...

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Canadian researchers discover new greenhouse gas

Scientists in Canada on Tuesday announced the discovery of a greenhouse gas with unprecedented potential to warm the Earth, and said the chemical has been lurking in the atmosphere for decades. The...

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Mexican Senate debates allowing foreign firms to drill for oil

Mexico’s Senate opened a debate Tuesday on controversial legislation to break the country’s oil monopoly by allowing foreign firms to drill for crude for the first time in 75 years. The bill — which...

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Lawmakers may avoid another shutdown with new bipartisan budget deal

A bipartisan group of lawmakers announced Tuesday afternooon that it had reached a two-year agreement on a budget plan that could head off the threat of another government shutdown at the outset of...

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Taking a picture may wipe away more memories than it preserves

Taking a picture to help you remember something might end up having the opposite effect, according to research published in the United States. A study released this week showed that people who took...

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Russian authorities backtrack and allow protesters at Sochi Olympics

Protesters will be allowed to express their views at the Sochi Winter Olympics after Games organisers agreed to allow an area for them following talks with the International Olympic Committee, IOC...

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Supreme Court tackles EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rules on cross-border pollution

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on environmental rules aiming to reduce smog that drifts from one state to another. An appeals court in Washington has blocked the Environmental...

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Thousands gather to celebrate 30 years of democracy in Argentina

Thousands of people on Tuesday celebrated Argentina’s thirtieth anniversary of return to democratic rule, voicing some satisfaction though it has been a bumpy ride. “Achieving democracy was anything...

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California man arrested for taping phony job offers for football coaches

A 32-year-old California man was arrested for illegally taping a series of prank calls he made to college and professional coaches with fake offers of more prestigious jobs, KCAL-TV reported on Monday....

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Israeli PM Netanyahu knocked for skipping Nelson Mandela memorial

Netanyahu skips Mandela memorial. Israelis say ‘are you kidding?’ (via The Christian Science Monitor) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Nov. 17....

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