Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted today to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers after discovering a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats. The measure now goes to the Assembly, which is expected to approve it tomorrow. The Senate requires a quorum to take up any…
Continue reading …It’s hard not to be fascinated by Eva Braun: As the companion of Hitler, she reminds us that even history’s biggest monsters had a main squeeze. Life magazine has just published a gallery of previously unreleased photographs of Braun from a cache confiscated in 1945. The former model is seen…
Continue reading …Forget the iPhone, iPad, or Wii—the Microsoft Kinect has snagged the record for “fastest-selling consumer electronics device” after moving 10 million units since its launch in November of last year, PC World reports. The motion-sensing add-on essentially turns the Microsoft xBox into a competitor for Nintendo’s Wii, and the…
Continue reading …Doctors and protesters in Yemen think the government is using banned nerve gas, not regular tear gas, to quell protests, reports Global Post . Three doctors treating patients say the symptoms are suspiciously severe. “The material in this gas makes people convulse for hours,” said one field doctor after soldiers fired…
Continue reading …Breast milk ice cream is back on sale in London: Though British authorities seized the “Baby Gaga” ice cream upon its debut a few weeks ago, a government council has approved the product after running health tests, reports NPR , which rounds up British coverage. But the confection shop The Icecreamists,…
Continue reading …Moammar Gadhafi put a price on the head of a Libyan opposition leader today, offering the equivalent of $419,000 for the capture of Mustafa Abdul Jalil, CNN reports. Libyan state television branded the head of the interim government in eastern Libya an “agent spy” and offered an additional $164,…
Continue reading …Authorities in Spokane today arrested a 36-year-old man with ties to a white supremacist group in the attempted bombing of the city’s MLK parade in January, reports the Spokesman-Review . The suspect is Kevin William Harpham, who served in the Army in 1996 and 1997 and now faces life in prison…
Continue reading …Three GOP state senators in Wisconsin fighting to cut wages and collective bargaining rights of public workers in the name of the budget have accepted a total of about $300,000 in federal farm subsidies, reports Sam Stein at the Huffington Post . There’s no direct link between the subsidies and…
Continue reading …Mel Gibson will plead no contest to simple battery against Oksana Grigorieva as part of a plea deal that will keep him out of jail, TMZ reports. The deal averts what would otherwise have been a sensationalistic domestic-abuse trial over the alleged assault on Jan. 6, with the testimony of…
Continue reading …California’s census numbers confirm the rise of the state’s Hispanics: Latinos now make up 37.6% of the population (or 14 million), just a shade below the 40.1% of whites (15 million). And the trend is clear—that’s a 28% increase for Hispanics over the last decade and a…
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