A Mexican journalist who says he fled across the border with his teenage son in 2008 after receiving daily death threats while covering his nation’s bloody drug war is scheduled to plead his case for asylum before a US federal judge today. Emilio Gutierrez Soto and his son, then 15,…
Continue reading …Beyonce will take the lead role in another remake of the 1937 classic A Star Is Born to be directed by Clint Eastwood, reports Deadline . No male lead has been cast yet in the story of a love affair between an alcoholic star on the way down and a young…
Continue reading …A defiant Ricky Gervais said he’s not sorry “for anything” on his celebrity-dig-packed night as host of the Golden Globes. “If they didn’t want me, they shouldn’t have hired me,” he told Piers Morgan last night . “I don’t think I did anything wrong. Those were, like, jibes at these people,…
Continue reading …Gabrielle Giffords was taken outside yesterday for her first fresh air and sunshine since she was shot in the head almost two weeks ago. Giffords— who can now stand, with assistance , and has attempted to speak—was taken on a brief stroll in a wheelchair to the Tucson University Medical…
Continue reading …The huge eyes Lady Gaga sported in her Bad Romance video have sparked a dangerous trend, eye doctors warn. Gaga’s big eyes were computer-generated, but “circle lenses” that offer the same look are now widely available online, with no exam or prescription required, the Chicago Tribune reports. Doctors warn that…
Continue reading …Here’s something to roar about. A Tucson taco restaurant is about to serve up up a lion meat version. State law allows wild meat to be served in restaurants as long as it’s not from an endangered species. “Curious” customers are already lining up for reservations to chow down the…
Continue reading …The Vatican may have finally had enough of Silvio Berlusconi’s antics. Accusations that the Italian leader paid a 17-year-old girl for sex are “troubling,” Vatican second-in-command Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone told reporters, adding that Italian politicians should show “robust morality.” The Vatican, hurling stones from a glass house, has long held…
Continue reading …The end of the World is looming in Dubai. The project—an artificial archipelago of 300 small islands arranged in the shape of a world map—is sinking back into the sea, according to evidence presented to a property tribunal in the emirate, the Telegraph reports. Only one of the…
Continue reading …The head of the Smithsonian said he’s now sorry he so quickly yanked a video from a museum exhibit featuring gay and lesbian artists because of warnings by Republican Party leaders that it could trigger “budgetary consequences.” It’s “the most painful thing I’ve ever done,” G. Wayne Clough told the…
Continue reading …The latest way to cheat in pro sports? Eating crushed-up deer antlers, apparently. As Yahoo Sports explains, the velvet covering the antlers is harvested in New Zealand, ground into a powder, and sold in the US, most commonly as a $68-a-bottle spray. The problem is that it naturally contains IGF-1,…
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