It won’t feature Levi Johnston, but Bristol Palin has finally landed her long-rumored reality show. In at least 10 half-hour episodes airing on BIO, the 20-year-old single mom will chronicle her move to Los Angeles to work in a small charity and room with friends Chris and Kyle Massey (a…
Continue reading …Alicia Silverstone gave birth to her first child, a son, on Thursday. And what moniker did she give her bundle of joy? Here’s a hint: Goldilocks might try to eat his porridge. And then he might feel sad. The actress’s babe with hubby Christopher Jarecki is named Bear Blu Jarecki,…
Continue reading …The Hasidic newspaper that Photoshopped Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason out of the iconic Situation Room photo is backpedaling quickly, reports the Washington Post . Because of “laws of modesty” and religious beliefs, Der Tzitung says in a statement that “we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we…
Continue reading …After three years of relative harmony, cracks are emerging in Russia’s dual leadership ahead of this year’s presidential elections—and the country’s elite has “spent the whole last month on the verge of a nervous breakdown,” unsure who to support, wrote a Russian economist. Divisions became clear between PM Vladimir…
Continue reading …Sheila Bair is stepping down as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. this summer, ending a five-year term in which she helped craft the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis. The FDIC says Bair will leave her post as one of the government’s top bank regulators on July…
Continue reading …Somebody inside Osama bin Laden’s compound was using a drug known as “herbal Viagra.” “The caution is, we don’t know who used what,” a pharmacist tells MSNBC, but Avena syrup—which is marketed as a natural aphrodisiac—is on the list of medications pulled from the compound. “There is a…
Continue reading …Pakistan is just furious about the US’ unilateral raid that took out Osama bin Laden—even though Pakistan agreed 10 years ago to let the US carry out just such a strike on its territory. As the Guardian reports, Pervez Musharraf and George W Bush struck the secret deal in…
Continue reading …A ship carrying 600 refugees fleeing from war-ravaged Libya has sank outside Tripoli, the BBC reports, and several hundred are feared to have drowned. The overcrowded boat, one of thousands of questionable vessels currently evacuating refugees, broke apart Friday, and the UN’s refugee agency said today that 16 bodies had…
Continue reading …Chinese officials arrived in Washington today for a round of high-level talks, and were greeted with a light scolding from Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for their government’s recent crackdown on dissent. “We have a vigorous disagreement in the area of human rights,” Biden said in his opening remarks, while…
Continue reading …Just when you thought it didn’t get any cooler than an iPhone, here comes the PaperPhone. Researchers from the E-Ink Corporation teamed with two universities to create the flexible phone made from electronic paper, the Daily Telegraph reports. Users control the phone by bending it, writing on it, or using…
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