The “most typical” person on Earth has been revealed: he’s a 28-year-old, right-handed, Han Chinese man, notes the Huffington Post . In a National Geographic report, researchers compiled some 190,000 photos to piece together the average person’s face. But this guy has only a few more years of typicality—in…
Continue reading …The father of the dead Marine whose lawsuit was at the center of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Westboro Baptist Church’s right to protest funerals remains understandably ticked off at the “nut-job church,” reports the York Dispatch . “We can no longer bury our dead in this country with dignity,” said…
Continue reading …Security forces loyal to the man clinging to power in Ivory Coast fatally shot six women protesting Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to leave office. The demonstrators were cut down by machine gunfire in Abobo, the suburb that has been the scene of the bloodiest clashes in the 3-month-old crisis. An assistant…
Continue reading …President Obama kept up the pressure on Moammar Gadhafi during his press conference with visiting Mexican President Felipe Calderon, reports CBS and the New York Times . Highlights: “The US and the entire world continues to be outraged by the appalling violence against the Libyan people. Moammar Gadhafi has lost the…
Continue reading …A federal judge who declared President Obama’s health care overhaul unconstitutional ruled today that states must continue implementing it while the case makes its way through the courts. US District Judge Roger Vinson was responding to a request from Obama administration attorneys who sought to ensure Florida and 25 other…
Continue reading …The GOP’s decision to bring back Styrofoam cups to a Capitol cafeteria has been a real boon for an old pal of the seemingly ever-present Koch brothers. The owner of WinCup, the company supplying the Styrofoam cups, is a former Koch Industries exec, the Huffington Post reports. But everybody swears…
Continue reading …Yemen’s president has agreed to a deal with opposition leaders that will usher him out of office by the end of the year—instead of by his previous 2013 deadline. A government official said, without elaborating, that the sides had reached “common ground” on a deal. Opposition leaders say Ali…
Continue reading …Fareed Zakaria is seriously worried about his adopted homeland of the United States. In a Time essay titled “Are America’s Best Days Behind Us?” he makes the case that if they’re not, they will be soon unless we wake up. The US may have been No. 1 for decades, but…
Continue reading …David von Drehle begs to differ with fellow Time writer Fareed Zakaria’s gloomy view of America’s future . These doomsayers have been around since the country was in diapers, and the modern ones love to “cherry-pick dismal statistics from here and there to create an overall image of decline,” von Drehle…
Continue reading …More and more young bottlenose dolphins are turning up dead in the Gulf, and scientists aren’t entirely sure why. The number of dead dolphins has swelled to 80, according to National Geographic , with about half of them being calves. Speculation is running rampant that the deaths are connected to the…
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