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New climate change projections surpass previous estimates and threaten 187...
A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change estimates that at its worst, sea level rise attributed to the melting of Earth’s polar ice caps and glaciers may displace up to 187...
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Piers Morgan happy to learn he isn’t being deported by the White House
The White House officially responded Wednesday to a petition that sought deport CNN host Piers Morgan because of his views on gun control. “Let’s not let arguments over the Constitution’s Second...
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Iran blamed for spat of high-powered cyber attacks on U.S. banks
US financial institutions are being pounded with high-powered cyber attacks that some suspect are being orchestrated by Iran as payback for political sanctions. “There is no doubt within the US...
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9/11 prosecutor wants conspiracy charge dropped
The chief prosecutor for Guantanamo’s military tribunals recommended Wednesday dismissing one of eight charges against five prisoners accused over the September 11 attacks. Brigadier General Mark...
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Auto union calls on Chrysler to go public
An auto union pension fund has moved to push Chrysler to go public so that the fund can sell its shares in the automaker on the open market, Chrysler said Wednesday. The number three US automaker said...
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MSNBC analyst: Bachmann on Intel committee ‘an embarrassment to the U.S.’
MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for keeping Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on the House Intelligence Committee. Bachmann will remain on the committee that...
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Jon Stewart: AIG puts the ‘A’ in ‘a**hole’
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted AIG for considering a lawsuit over the government bailout that saved the insurance giant. Stewart insisted no one should be...
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Insulin breakthrough could see end to needles for diabetics
Breakthrough Australian research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could open the door to novel new diabetes treatments, ending daily needle jabs for millions, scientists have announced. A...
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Google chief Eric Schmidt urges North Korean leaders to adopt Internet freedom
Google chairman Eric Schmidt told North Korean officials their country would never develop unless it embraced Internet freedom, he said on Thursday as he returned from a visit to Pyongyang. Former US...
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With Chavez absent, Venezuela launches new presidential term
With President Hugo Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela’s leftist government launches a new presidential term Thursday with a display of popular support on the day he was to be inaugurated. Leaders of...
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Defense attorney alleges police brutality in Delhi gang-rape case
A defence lawyer accused Indian police on Thursday of beating confessions out of five men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in New Delhi, as they were due to appear in court again....
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France reluctant to restrict newer generation birth control pill despite...
France insisted Friday on restricting the prescription of newer-generation birth control pills even as Europe’s medicines watchdog declared there was no evidence to back a health warning. Citing...
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Russia to allow some orphans to be adopted in U.S.
Russian children whose adoptions have already been approved by courts will go to the United States despite a blanket ban on all American adoptions, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. “Those who have...
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Saudi King appoints woman to advisory council for first time
Saudi King Abdullah appointed 30 women to the previously all-male consultative Shura Council in decrees published on Friday, marking a historic first as he pushes reforms in the ultra-conservative...
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Eric Bolling: Shooting ’4 or 5 rounds per second’ is a constitutional right
Fox News host Eric Bolling on Friday insisted that assault-style rifles which can shoot “four or five rounds per second” were “protected under the Constitution.” In his weekly appearance on Fox &...
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Study suggests El Niño made worse by climate change
The cycle of warming and cooling in the Pacific Ocean, what most call El Niño, may be influenced by climate change, according to research published recently in the journal Science. Researchers at the...
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EU and U.S. agree to share cybercrime data
The European Union and the US agreed Friday to share more data on cross-border cybercriminals at the opening of a new hi-tech unit aimed at helping police catch up with increasingly imaginative...
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Portland residents panic as men armed with assault weapons ‘educate’ the city
Two men walked the streets of Portland armed with assault weapons earlier this week because they said they wanted to “educate” residents, who reacted by fleeing and calling police. Warren Drouin and...
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Anti-Feminist Press Crows Over Book Celebrating Domestic Abuse, Then Finds...
I had largely ignored the press around a memoir by Alisa Valdes called The Feminist and The Cowboy, which was being slobbered over by the anti-feminist press as some kind of massive truth-telling about...
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Tarantino loses temper in interview: ‘I am not your slave’
In a heated interview aired Thursday night, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino completely shut down a journalist who wanted him to speak about his views on violence in media, telling him: “I am not your slave...
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