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Jon Stewart lampoons Obama’s descent into scandal mania
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart poked fun at President Barack Obama for becoming embroiled in multiple scandals. He mocked the President for admitting that he only learned...
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Liberal House Democrats slam ‘cruel and harmful’ cuts to school meals for...
Several Democrats took to the House floor on Wednesday to denounce large cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. Rep. Betty McCollum...
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Elon Musk invests $100 million in his company Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors said Wednesday that founder Elon Musk would invest $100 million in the surging electric car maker, and that it would repay a loan from the US Department of Energy ahead of schedule. The...
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Liberal group Progress Texas also received extra IRS scrutiny
A liberal group on Wednesday said it had faced the same level of scrutiny from the IRS that was applied to tea party groups. “Progress Texas and the Tea Party strongly disagree on the role of...
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Study finds marijuana buffers against negative psychological effects of...
Research published online May 14 in Social Psychological and Personality Science has uncovered that marijuana buffers people from experiencing social pain. “Prior work has shown that the analgesic...
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Obama accepts resignation of IRS acting chief over ‘inexcusable’ tea party...
Barack Obama fired the most senior tax official in the US on Wednesday in an effort to bring a speedy end to a scandal over the targeting for special scrutiny of Tea Party organisations and other...
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Survey finds scientific consensus on cause of climate change: humans
A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity. Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal...
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Only abortion clinic in North Dakota seeks to combat law to close it down
Lawyers for the only abortion clinic in North Dakota launched a legal bid on Wednesday to try and combat a new law that critics say is aimed at closing it down and leaving the state without any...
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Jodi Arias faces the possibility of the death penalty
Jodi Arias, the US woman found guilty of slaughtering her boyfriend in 2008 in a high-profile murder case, could face the death penalty after a jury ruled Wednesday that she was “especially cruel.” The...
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Tesla vice president blasts North Carolina Republican’s attack on the free...
Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president for corporate and business development, on Wednesday slammed legislation in North Carolina that would prevent the sale of his company’s all-electric cars....
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Jon Stewart calls out Rumsfeld and Cheney: Obama’s transgressions don’t wipe...
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped into Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney on Wednesday for their sanctimonious criticism of the current administration, saying President Barack Obama’s transgressions...
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CDC: 20 percent of U.S. youths have mental health issues
As many as one-fifth of American children and teens suffer from a mental disorder such as anxiety or depression and the incidence of such ailments is rising, a study released Thursday said. “A total of...
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Report: Republicans were source of bogus Benghazi quotes
Republicans provided the erroneous quotes linked to White House emails regarding how to address the September 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, CBS News reported on Thursday. According to the...
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Costa Rican president used rumored drug associate’s private plane
Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla was embroiled in scandal Thursday amid revelations that she used a private jet made available by a Colombian suspected of links to drug trafficking. The...
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Health officials: Feces found in almost 60 percent of public pools
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are advising swimmers at public pools nationwide to be extra careful, after finding that nearly 60 percent of pools in the Atlanta area tested...
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Mexican court tosses $2.7 billion penalty in Yahoo! case
Yahoo! announced on Thursday that a Mexican appeals court tossed out a $2.7 billion dollar damages award in a breach of contract lawsuit. “The appellate decision overturned all monetary awards against...
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Report: Shrinking glaciers behind a third of rise in sea levels
Water from the world’s shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009, new research showed Thursday. A study published in the journal Science...
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Stewart mocks horse-race media for ‘attention span of a concussed goldfish’
As President Barack Obama fights himself on a three-and-a-half-year long “race up shit’s creek,” Jon Stewart pointed out, his best hope would be the fact that Beltway media, cursed by “the attention...
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Young people using Alzheimer’s dementia drugs to boost brain power
Medicines used for Alzheimer’s disease and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder taken by 1% of 14 to 18-year-olds Some young people in Britain have used drugs for dementia and other conditions to...
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80-year-old Japanese man starts ascent of Mount Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world. In a voice message recorded on his...
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