A member of Britain’s House of Lords could be facing time in the jailhouse for fiddling his expenses to swindle taxpayers out of $18,000. A jury found Lord Taylor of Warwick—who lied about having a residence outside of London in order to claim travel expenses—guilty of false…
Continue reading …Black women can have larger waistlines and be larger in general than white women and still be relatively healthy, according to new research.The study of 6,400 volunteers examined abdominal obesity and body-mass index and found that black women had higher thresholds than white women for both measures before…
Continue reading …President Obama’s second State of the Union address probably won’t win over many critics from the left or right but he did an impressive—at times even Reaganesque—job of pitching to the center, pundits say. “The point wasn’t soaring rhetoric or soothing the nation,” notes Joshua Green at Atlantic…
Continue reading …Now here’s a Google search that should make President Obama happy: “jobs.” Google says it will hire more than 6,200 workers this year—25% of its work force—in the online giant’s biggest hiring spree yet. Some Wall Street analysts complain that Google is quickly becoming too bloated, but…
Continue reading …Banners have appeared in the heartland of Mexico’s La Familia drug cartel claiming that the criminal organization has been dissolved but authorities are understandably skeptical. The cartel, one of Mexico’s most brutal, declared a month-long truce earlier this month and authorities believe that it is weakened and in disarray but…
Continue reading …Toyota is recalling nearly 1.7 million vehicles around the world for various defects that may cause fuel leakage—the latest in quality control woes for the Japanese automaker. The company says it is recalling a wide range of models, including the IS and GS Lexus luxury models in North…
Continue reading …Gabrielle Giffords’ condition has been upgraded from serious to good at the Houston hospital where she is being treated. Doctors say Giffords, who was shot in the forehead January 8, has made “strong progress” since arriving at the hospital Friday and she could be transferred to a rehabilitation center as…
Continue reading …The century-old tradition of partisan seating at the State of the Union address crumbled Tuesday night as Republicans and Democrats paired off. After days of matchmaking that resembled a pre-prom frenzy , Republican-Democrat pairings included Jim DeMint and Tom Udall, Charles Schumer and Tom Coburn, and John Thune and Kirsten Gillibrand,…
Continue reading …Mark Zuckerberg may need to fiddle with his privacy settings: the Facebook founder’s ID appears to have been hacked. An impostor posting under what seems to have been Zuckerberg’s identity made a post on Zuckerberg’s own fan page, urging Facebook to transform itself into a “social business,” TechCrunch reports.
Continue reading …When President Obama addressed the economy in general and the deficit and debt in particular tonight, “some of his words were reassuring,” said the GOP’s Paul Ryan in his party’s official response. (Full text here from CBS.) But that was about all the praise he could muster: “We face…
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