South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he thinks he’ll sign a bill that would implement some of the strongest anti-abortion laws in the United States. The new measure would require women seeking an elective abortion to undergo a 72-hour waiting period—the longest in the nation—and first attend counseling…
Continue reading …A Michigan high school basketball player’s moment of glory turned to tragedy last night. Wes Leonard, 16, made the game-winning shot in overtime—clinching his team’s perfect, 20-0 season—and then collapsed as fans ran onto the court. Just moments before, his teammates had hoisted him into the air in…
Continue reading …The jailed soldier accused of leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks was forced to strip and was held naked for seven hours on Wednesday, his lawyer said on his website. Bradley Manning got his clothes back yesterday morning, after he was made to stand outside his cell during an inspection, the…
Continue reading …Gadhafi loyalists have set up checkpoints in Tripoli ahead of protests planned for today—the opposition has called for protesters to march out of mosques after noon prayers—and many fear more bloodshed. Several hours before prayers, streets were eerily empty, with few residents out. But security forces, who opened…
Continue reading …Chinese authorities, with their heavy-handed crackdown on protests , have made it clear that the times are definitely not a-changing if they can help it. They are, however, letting Bob Dylan play his first-ever shows in the country, the AFP reports. Dylan will play concerts in Beijing and Shanghai next month…
Continue reading …Other Blade Runner movies could be here in time for 2019, the year when the 1982 sci-fi classic takes place. Production company Alcon Entertainment says it’s in the final stages of talks to acquire the rights to make prequels and sequels based on the settings and characters of the original,…
Continue reading …Police are investigating an annual nude bash by a private Yale student club that ended with several students in a local hospital following a suspected sexual assault. Yale police officials alerted the student body in an email that a “possible sexual assault involving Yale undergraduates occurred at an off campus…
Continue reading …A bungled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms sting operation allowed hundreds of guns to fall into the hands of Mexican criminals and more than one ATF agent is now saying “I told you so.” The bureau hoped to trace the guns from American sellers to the top echelon of…
Continue reading …Charlie Sheen’s having some well-publicized troubles in the real world—including the loss of custody of his twins —but on Twitter, things couldn’t be going better for him. The actor joined the microblogging site on Tuesday and by yesterday the Guinness Book of Records hailed him as the fastest person…
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