Israel has apologized to reporters subjected to strip searches before they were allowed into a tony cocktail party press event that they were invited to by … Israeli officials. Pregnant Palestinian al-Jazeera reporter Najwan Simri Diab stripped down to her slip for a “15-minute groping” but then left in fury when…
Continue reading …Astronomers who say the Zodiac as we know it has been off for thousands of years because of wobbles in the Earth’s axis have a new sign to add. Star sign dates as people know them are wrong, according to the astronomers, and people born between November 29 and December…
Continue reading …A missing 13-year-old Texas middle-schooler told her grandma she was afraid of her mother’s new boyfriend who often lurked in her bedroom doorway and watched her. Hailey Dunn has been missing for nearly three weeks. Her mom’s boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, walked off his job the day of her disappearance, and…
Continue reading …One slightly bent Florida fellow is suffering from more serious depressions, higher hypertension and more stressful stress, he’s charging in a typo-riddled lawsuit filed against WikiLeaks. He’s in “constant fear of being stricken by another heart attack or stroke” because he now believes the world is “on the brink of…
Continue reading …Woolly mammoths could be walking the Earth again in as little as 4 years, according to a Japanese scientist. A technique pioneered in 2008 successfully cloned a mouse from the cells of a mouse frozen for 16 years, and the professor believes he can use the same technique to resurrect…
Continue reading …Infidelity isn’t always the stuff of illicit affairs. A new survey shows that 31% of Americans who combine their finances with a spouse have lied about money to said spouse. “Financial infidelity may be the new normal,” writes Jenna Goudreau at her Forbes blog . The most common misdeeds were hiding…
Continue reading …Bradley Manning may go to prison for a long, long time if he’s found guilty of spilling military secrets—and it probably won’t be a pleasant stay —but at least he’s still got WikiLeaks in his corner. Kind of. The site today pledged $15,100 for his defense, which, as…
Continue reading …Parents wrestling with kids’ questions about the Tucson shooting would do well to tell them about Christina Taylor Green, writes Michelle Obama in an open letter on the White House blog . Christina was only 9 but already learning about public service and “how to give back.” She and the other…
Continue reading …Some residents of Washington, DC, are proposing that Pennsylvania Avenue—home of the White House and possibly the most famous street in the nation—get a name change. The proposed alternatives? Unconstitutional Avenue, No Vote Street, and Statehood Way are among the suggestions, the AP reports. In case you haven’t…
Continue reading …The death toll from Brazil’s mudslides in the mountain towns north of Rio rose to 381 today, reports AP . That figure is expected to rise still more as the hunt for survivors continues. The landslides, triggered by torrential rains, buried many victims as they slept. Click here to read about…
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