Former Bush aide shames Congress: More worried about airport delays than dead...
President George W. Bush’s former chief strategist Matthew Dowd on Sunday lashed out at Congress for moving so quickly to fund air traffic controllers because lawmakers were personally “about to get...
View ArticleFlorida cop: Girlfriend’s pimp set me up on drug charges
A Hialeah, Florida police sergeant said on Sunday that his arrest on drug charges is the result of a love story. “I met a girl, she happens to have a pimp and we fell in love,” 41-year-old Tomas Muñoz...
View ArticleOhio Catholic student pulls gun and shoots himself in classroom suicide attempt
A Ohio Catholic high school student was rushed to the hospital on Monday after he reportedly pulled out a gun in a classroom and shot himself in what was thought to be a possible suicide attempt....
View ArticleAnti-abortion group publishes videos attacking second-trimester abortion...
Two videos published Sunday and Monday by the anti-abortion group Live Action purport to show later-term abortion providers Washington Surgi-Clinic and Dr. Emily Women’s Health Center in the Bronx. The...
View ArticleSWAT team sent to home of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
A message sent to police in Montgomery County, Virginia on Saturday caused a SWAT team to descend upon a home owned by CNN host Wolf Blitzer, under the impression that someone at the residence had just...
View ArticleJason Collins becomes first openly gay active NBA player
34-year-old pro basketball Jason Collins came out as gay on Monday in a column for Sports Illustrated, becoming the first professional athlete in one of the country’s preeminent sports leagues to do...
View ArticleIrate Boston man confronts ‘sh*theel’ Alex Jones reporter over ‘false flag’...
A reporter from Alex Jones’ Infowars.com website found himself being being verbally destroyed by a resident on the streets of Boston over claims that the recent bombings had been the result of a...
View ArticleFox News smacks Glenn Beck: ‘He was trying to save his ass’
A Fox News spokesperson explained Monday that conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck left the network not because he was safeguarding his spirituality, but because “he was trying to save his ass” after a...
View ArticleCNN pretends tent on sidewalk is bombing suspect’s prison cell
CNN helped viewers visualize Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s life in a 10-by-10-foot prison cell by pitching a small party tent outside Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts on...
View ArticleFive doctors jailed in Kosovo for illegal organ harvesting and transplants
An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants. Former Kosovo health minister Ilir Rrecaj — who admitted during...
View ArticleFormer presidential candidate Mike Gravel and ex-congressmen lend credibility...
Only little green men at National Press Club are dead presidents on $20,000 honorariums paid to committee members If there are extraterrestrial rewards for perseverance, the organisers of the UFO...
View ArticleKarl Malone to homophobic ESPN reporter: You won’t ‘kick over and die’ if you...
Legendary NBA power forward Karl Malone, who once worried that he could be infected with HIV by playing ball with Magic Johnson, now says that a homophobic ESPN reporter needs to “move past” judging...
View ArticleBloomberg accuses newspaper and activists of racism for opposing stop and frisk
Speaking to gathered reporters on Tuesday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) castigated the media and civil rights groups for not showing the same outrage over the recent killing of a...
View ArticleObama renews bid to shut down Guantanamo prison
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to renew a push to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, amid a growing hunger strike by inmates at the controversial jail. Calling the prison a legal “no...
View ArticleTwo Democrats call on Americans to celebrate the National Day of Reason
Two Democrats in Congress have issued statements in support of Thursday’s National Day of Reason, according to the group that sponsors the annual event. The American Humanist Association on Tuesday...
View ArticleWatch: Obama says we’ve got to close Guantanamo Bay prison
During a press conference on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he was still committed to closing down the Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba, one of his 2008 campaign promises. “I continue to...
View ArticleObama: Chemical weapons would cause U.S. to ‘rethink’ action on Syria
President Barack Obama Tuesday warned against a rush to judgment on Syria’s use of chemical arms, but said proof of their use would trigger a “rethink” of his reluctance to use military force. As...
View ArticleAfghanistan blames opium surge on global demand
Afghanistan, the world’s largest grower of opium poppies, should not shoulder all the blame for its drug surge, its foreign minister said Tuesday while on a visit to Estonia. “It’s not only Afghanistan...
View ArticleResearchers develop happiness sensor based on Twitter activity
Take all the comments expressed on Twitter, crunch them with an analytics program and you can get a sense of the mood of a city, state or country. US researchers say they have come up with such a tool,...
View ArticleApple bond offering among biggest ever: reports
A bond offering from Apple expected to be priced later today will be one of the largest ever for a US company, according to leading financial newspapers Tuesday. Apple is selling $17 billion in...
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