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First-ever music video filmed in space is David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’
In an amazing video published Sunday by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, he bids farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) with the most epic cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” perhaps...
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Vermont decriminalizes possession of marijuana
Vermont’s legislature on Monday voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, making the New England state the 17th to relax restrictions on the drug. The House of Representatives...
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McCain: Fox News chief ‘deserves credit’ if Benghazi gets full investigation
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday thanked Fox News for relentlessly covering the attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. “My question is, is why is it eight months later that finally now it seems...
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Democrats at odds over California’s multi-billion dollar budget surplus
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is expected to clash with his own party over the state’s huge budget surplus. California is expected to see a budget surplus of about $4.5 billion thanks to a...
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Wayne Brady slams Bill Maher over his portrayal of African Americans
Monday on HuffPost Live, TV personality Wayne Brady ripped comedian Bill Maher for portraying “blackness” as essentially unintelligent and violent. Maher has compared President Barack Obama’s demeanor...
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TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies aged 85
Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who blazed a trail decades ago in the emerging US television genre of advice programming, has died aged 85, her spokesman said. Brothers passed away in New Jersey,...
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Backlash against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy grows
The backlash against Mark Zuckerberg’s political advocacy group is gathering steam with a campaign to pick off many of its high-profile Silicon Valley backers. Activists on Monday identified the next...
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Obama on apparent IRS partisanship: I will not tolerate it
Barack Obama has delivered his first public response to allegations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, describing it as outrageous and promising a...
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Chris Hayes explains why Citizens United is the real scandal behind the IRS...
MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Monday night explained how the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling lead to the current IRS scandal. The IRS on Friday admitted that it had targeted tea party...
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Jon Stewart angrily mocks IRS for emboldening the ‘tin foil-behatted’
On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart slammed the IRS for singling out tea party groups for extra scrutiny. He said the scandal essentially justified the views of anti-government...
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‘American Psycho’ author Bret Easton Ellis attacks ‘gatekeepers of...
Ellis rails against activist group GLAAD for imposing a sanitized version of homosexuality upon complicated lives of individuals Bret Easton Ellis, the novelist who turned being a bad boy into a...
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Roadside bomb kills three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb killed three US soldiers in south Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, the latest fatalities for the NATO-led coalition which is winding down after 12 years of fighting. The soldiers...
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Millionaire yoga guru Bikram Choudhury accused of rape and human trafficking
Millionaire yoga guru Bikram Choudhury has been accused of rape, sexual assault and “human trafficking” in two new lawsuits filed by former students. According to the suits, filed in Los Angeles this...
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Walmart promises to inspect Bangladesh garment factories
Giant retailer Walmart announced Tuesday that it would conduct in-depth safety inspections of all 279 of its Bangladesh suppliers, in the wake of the building collapse that killed more than 1,100...
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Angeline Jolie emerges as cancer crusader after double mastectomy
As an international sex symbol, a mother of six, a UN ambassador and a tattooed tabloid target, Angelina Jolie has never been one to shun the spotlight. But the A-list Hollywood star’s biggest headline...
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Tennessee governor vetoes ‘ag-gag’ bill that targeted animal rights activists
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) on Monday announced he would veto controversial legislation that would have made it harder to expose animal abuse. “Our office has spent a great deal of time considering...
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Economist: Deficits nothing but a politically useful hammer to beat up Obama
University of Massachusetts economist Richard Wolff on Tuesday explained that obsession over the federal deficit was based in politics, not economics. Wolff said on the David Pakman Show that the...
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Activists protest possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to the Koch brothers
Unions, activists and artists held a rally on Tuesday, to protest the possible sale of the Los Angeles Times to the Koch brothers, warning that such a sale would turn one of the US’s great newspapers...
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U.S. Army investigates sexual assault prevention officer for sex abuse
The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that a sexual assault prevention officer at Fort Hood, Texas was under investigation for abusive sexual contact. The unnamed Army sergeant first class had been assigned...
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Obama vows to punish IRS staff who targeted tea party groups
Barack Obama has pledged Internal Revenue Service employees who discriminated against Tea Party groups will be held accountable after an independent watchdog heavily criticised the tax organisation for...
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