Moammar Gadhafi’s government has swept up bloggers, journalists, suspected rebel fighters, and even teenage protesters in an organized effort to quash rebellion in Libya, Amnesty International said in a report today. The group said its workers in Libya have documented 30 cases of people who have disappeared in the east,…
Continue reading …Barry Bonds’ ex-mistress took the stand in his perjury trial today, testifying that the ex-slugger blamed steroids for a 1999 elbow injury, and that his head got bigger—literally—and testicles got smaller over the course of their nine-year relationship. Kimberly Bell, who maintained the relationship even after he told…
Continue reading …For a guy who’s been making a few birther-esque noises about President Obama lately, Donald Trump today revealed that he was born in Jamaica… New York. The Donald exclusively released his birth certificate to Newsmax , and took another shot at Obama: “It took me one hour to get my birth…
Continue reading …A little piece of Hogwarts may someday be reality: firefighters could eventually replace their hoses with flame-snuffing wands, the Daily Mail reports. Scientists attached a 600-watt electrical amplifier to a wand that blasted a foot-high fire with electricity, and the flames were extinguished almost immediately, they announced at a conference…
Continue reading …There’s been a lot of news around the world in 2011—too much, in fact, for some news organizations’ to handle. Japan, Libya, and Egypt have stretched already tight cable and broadcast news budgets to the breaking point, The Wrap reports. “We’ve already had a year’s worth of breaking news…
Continue reading …Score another one for Jose Canseco’s relentless quest to make the entire planet mad at him: This time it’s Celebrity Boxing, which discovered on Saturday that the Canseco it paid $10,000 to show up at a match was really Jose’s twin brother, Ozzie. The boxing group made the discovery…
Continue reading …Alain Robert, known as “Spider-man” for his penchant for illegally scaling the world’s tallest skyscrapers, is on his way up the world’s tallest: Dubai’s dizzying half-mile-tall Burj Khalifa. The 48-year-old Frenchman set off just before 6pm local time, and the trip up was expected to take him six or seven…
Continue reading …Congressional Republicans have made it clear that they don’t want to fund Planned Parenthood , but at least one thinks the federal government should be funding anti-abortion activists, Mother Jones reports. Florida Rep. Cliff Stearns introduced a measure that would provide federal funds to crisis pregnancy centers, clinics—often run by…
Continue reading …The seizure of a munitions factory yesterday by Yemen militants turned tragic today when looters set off an accidental explosion, killing at least 78. With President Ali Abdullah Saleh clinging to power and battling protesters, Islamist militants are getting increasingly aggressive, reports the AP, and today’s explosion only served to…
Continue reading …Ever notice a distinct similarity between the conspiracy-laden rants of Glenn Beck and Alex Jones? Well Jones has, too, and naturally, he thinks it’s a conspiracy. In an interview with New York magazine , spotted by the Atlantic , Jones says Beck ripped him off—and is up to no good. “Glenn…
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