A Missouri man thought a shotgun would help cure his and his wife’s McDonald’s craving—and ended up in jail. Chris Brooks Heuring became angry when he pulled up to a McDonald’s at 11:40 pm Saturday only to be told they were closed. He ordered an employee to open…
Continue reading …President Obama and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri today declared their commitment to strengthening Lebanon’s independence even as Hezbollah ministers forced the year-old unity government to collapse. Hariri cut today’s White House visit short amid his nation’s political crisis and immediately left for France to consult with Nicolas Sarkozy before…
Continue reading …Prison hasn’t done much to wipe the scary-looking grin off Jared Lee Loughner’s face. A US marshal tells the Daily Beast that the Arizona shooting suspect “doesn’t say much, he just sits in his cell with a smirk on his face, nothing else.” Loughner has what the marshal describes as…
Continue reading …John Paul II’s fast track to sainthood gets even faster this week. A Vatican panel has concluded that the former pontiff did indeed perform a miracle—a nun says her Parkinson’s disappeared after she prayed to him—and will present its findings to Pope Benedict within days, reports Reuters . Benedict…
Continue reading …When the US government told Twitter to hand over its information about WikiLeaks figures, the company did what is so unfortunately rare these days, writes Ryan Singel at Wired . It “beta-tested a spine” and stood up for the First Amendment. The easiest course of action would have been to quietly…
Continue reading …The working girls of Amsterdam’s red light district are about to get a really unwelcome gentleman caller: the taxman. Prostitution has been legal in the Netherlands for a decade, but authorities are just now getting around to taxing it, as part of the austerity push sweeping across Europe, the AP…
Continue reading …Microsoft is trying to stop Apple from trademarking the term “App Store,” reports PC World . Apple executives have had a pending trademark since 2008, in a bid to make theirs the only online software retail vendor that can legally use the name. In a motion to kill Apple’s trademark request,…
Continue reading …Tunisia’s army rolled through the streets of Tunis today, hoping to quell a string of sometimes violent protests over the country’s rampant poverty and unemployment. So far 21 people have been killed in the riots, which began three weeks ago when a young unemployed man set himself on fire. Today…
Continue reading …Amy Chua—and her method of parenting—is creating quite a stir. The Wall Street Journal published an except from the Yale law professor’s new memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , over the weekend, and the 3,494 comments (and counting) include reactions like: “I am in disbelief after…
Continue reading …Don’t look now, but the Westboro Baptist Church is displaying one tiny, itty-bitty modicum of decency! The church has announced that, in a saintly show of restraint, it will abandon plans to picket the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed in Saturday’s Tuscon massacre. Of course, they’re…
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