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Jon Stewart rips opponents of the Voting Rights Act
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the opponents of the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 of the civil rights-era measure requires laws affecting voters in jurisdictions with...
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Dow continues upward surge as good economic data rolls in
Growing investor enthusiasm for equities in the wake of this week’s records pushed US markets higher again Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged to an all-time peak for the third day in a...
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Android rises to top — in malware threats: survey
The Android operating system accounted for 79 percent of all malware infections on smartphones, and the threat is multiplying, a security firm said Thursday. Finland-based F-Secure said in a report...
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Attorney General Eric Holder: President can’t kill non-combatant with drone...
Attorney General Eric Holder made clear on Thursday that a US president does not have the power to order a drone strike against a “non combatant” American inside the United States. Holder’s clarifying...
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Supreme Court asked to weigh in on ‘gruesome’ anti-abortion displays
The US Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on whether anti-abortion activists can display crude photographs of aborted fetuses during protests. The conservative Thomas More Society has petitioned...
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Research: Forced ultrasound doesn’t change women’s decision on abortion
Requiring women to receive an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion does not change their decision. However, it does impose a significant burden on many women. That is according to...
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Senate Democrats struggle to pass background check bill and assault weapons ban
A US Senate panel approved legislation Thursday that makes gun trafficking a federal crime, but bills banning assault weapons and expanding background checks to nearly all gun buyers face a tougher...
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U.S. delays award for Samira Ibrahim over alleged anti-Semitic remarks
In an embarrassing about-turn, the US Thursday said it would delay giving a prestigious award to an Egyptian activist to check reports she had made anti-American and anti-Semitic remarks. Samira...
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Canada’s glaciers could shrink by a fifth by 2100
A fifth of Canada’s glaciers could be gone by the end of the century, a casualty of global warming that would drive a 1.4-inch (3.5-centimeter) rise in sea levels, a study found Thursday. “Even if we...
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Arkansas 12-week abortion ban likely to be struck down, says pro-life lawyer
Lawyers from both sides of the abortion debate have acknowledged that an Arkansas bill that bans terminations after 12 weeks is likely to be struck down in the courts. A vote by the...
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Mice with human brain cells have improved memory, researchers find
Mice with human cells grafted into their brains outperform their normal counterparts on tests of learning and memory, according to new research. The findings, published today in the journal Cell Stem...
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Australian ‘Harlem Shake’ miners’ firing stirs up controversy
A worker sacked for performing the dance craze “Harlem Shake” in an Australian gold mine had considered safety and only did it on a break, his lawyer said, adding that the prank was harmless. As many...
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U.S. economic recovery leaving Europe and Japan ‘stagnant’
A sharp fall in the unemployment rate Friday and a fresh all-time record for stocks show the US economy pulling away from its peers, gaining ground while Europe and Japan remain stagnant. The Federal...
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Teachers’ union head arrested while protesting closing of 23 Philadelphia...
The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, was arrested on Thursday night in Philadelphia while protesting the closing of 23 local schools. “This was really a plan to...
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Talk of 3D printing ‘renaissance’ kicks off ‘South by Southwest’ festival
The 27th edition of South by Southwest kicked off Friday with a bold prediction that desktop 3D printing will unleash a new industrial revolution guided by “creative explorers.” Inventing or...
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Warner Bros. hands Smithsonian the ‘golden ticket’
Willy Wonka’s golden ticket and Batman’s mask are among some 30 movie costumes and props given Friday to the National Museum of American History in the US capital. US production company Warner Bros....
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Montana police: Cable hunting show host shot and killed by jealous husband
Police in Whitefish, Montana said on Friday that Sportsman Channel host Gregory Rodríguez was shot and killed by a friend’s jealous husband. According to KRTV-TV, Rodríguez, host of A Rifleman’s...
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Venezuelan opposition challenges Chavez’s successor
Allegations of abuse of power and constitutional fraud bring end to brief truce between government and opposition Venezuela’s opposition has challenged the legitimacy of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s...
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Philippines still confident U.N. peacekeepers will be released from Syria
The Philippines still expects its 21 UN peacekeepers held hostage in the Golan Heights to be freed, despite shelling by Syrian forces that scuttled a handover, a military spokesman said. A UN convoy...
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Bill Maher: Americans ‘will elect a president who eats c-ck before tofurkey’
The news that a Republican senator who recently had dinner with President Barack Obama ordered a vegetarian meal briefly shocked Bill Maher on Friday night. The unidentified senator, Huffington Post...
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