In what may be early signs that Facebook’s popularity has peaked, the social media giant lost 6 million users in the US last month. Coupled with an 8% drop in Canadian users (more than 1.5 million profiles), and 100,000 each in the UK, Norway, and Russia, Facebook is…
Continue reading …A former Oakland transit cop convicted of shooting and killing an unarmed man on a subway platform last year was freed today after a year in prison, reports CNN . Johannes Mehserle was sentenced to two years for involuntary manslaughter, but he received one day of good conduct credit for each…
Continue reading …President Obama is the latest top Dem to weigh in on Weinergate, stopping short of calling for the New York rep to step down, but telling an NBC interviewer that, “I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign. Because public service is exactly that, it’s a…
Continue reading …A heart-shaped sticker might have been affixed to the duct tape placed over Caylee Anthony’s mouth, according to the testimony of a forensic examiner in the murder trial of mom Casey Anthony. Residue in the dime-sized shape of a heart was observed on the duct tape, reports People, and the…
Continue reading …Wolverine’s not so different from you and me: Scientists have found that each person has as many as 60 mutations in our genomes—portions of our DNA that aren’t matched in either of our parents. Mutations happen in both eggs and sperm cells, and neither cell’s mutations are consistently dominant…
Continue reading …A Syrian Army deserter says he fled after his unit was ordered to shoot at unarmed anti-regime protestors, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Darwish Mohammed Fidou also says he saw soldiers shooting each other as the army further split over orders to kill civilians. “My heart is broken to watch…
Continue reading …At least Miami Heat fans have one positive newspaper clipping for the scrapbook. The morning after the Heat lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks, the Miami Herald mistakenly ran a nearly full-page Macy’s ad congratulating the Heat on its “win” and offering championship T-shirts and hats. And a…
Continue reading …A secret federal grand jury is now hearing witnesses in the decade-old case of the “Iceman,” an Abu Ghraib prisoner who died on the CIA’s watch. It’s just one of several cases in the jury’s “investigation of possible violations of federal criminal laws involving War Crimes, Torture, and related federal…
Continue reading …Sarah Palin writes like an eighth grader, and that’s actually a compliment. Following Friday’s massive release of hundreds of emails she wrote as governor, two writing analysts evaluated 60 randomly chosen messages that were at least one paragraph, and determined that Palin wrote them at a grade level between 8….
Continue reading …Apparently, cops aren’t above the law when it comes to crimes of fashion. Officers assigned to the Capitol are upset with a top brass decision to ban them from wearing shorts. Union reps say the decision was made because cops carrying automatic rifles don’t look imposing in shorts, reports Roll…
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