Rep. Gabrielle Giffords spoke several times about her fears of being shot in the overheated Arizona political climate, reveals her husband, who believed for several agonizing minutes that he had lost her. In his first TV interview about the attack, astronaut Mark Kelly reveals the pain of hearing the erroneous…
Continue reading …Critics won’t have Ricky Gervais to kick around anymore. The caustic comedian says he’s had it with the Golden Globes in the wake of days of bashing for his harsh celebrity zingers at the awards presentation. “Twice is enough,” Gervais told TMZ . Even if he’s invited back next year to…
Continue reading …A commander of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been accused by a victim and local officials of leading a mass rape of some 50 women. It’s the largest single rape attack linked to the Congo army, reports the BBC. “Those who raped me were members of the military,” said…
Continue reading …A backpack bomb capable of causing multiple casualties was found along the route of Monday’s Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, the FBI says. City workers discovered the bomb before the parade and it was neutralized by the city’s explosives disposal unit. Authorities say the bomb was placed on…
Continue reading …Bag checkers at the Athens airport turned a Cypriot monk over to authorities when they discovered a nun’s skeleton in his luggage. The monk admitted digging up the nun’s 4-year-old grave at an Athens cemetery so he could bring her remains back to his monastery in Cyprus, reports Huffington Post…
Continue reading …The quirky story out of Rome about police stumbling onto the lost tomb of Caligula grabbed headlines, but Cambridge professor Mary Beard isn’t buying it. The key evidence is that cops caught a guy with a looted statue near Lake Nemi, and the statue was, gasp, wearing the same “caligae”…
Continue reading …This one has to sting: The Society of Professional Journalists is killing its Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award because of the controversy over her infamous advice that Jews in Palestine should “go home,” followed up by her accusation that “Zionists” own Congress and the White House. It follows a similar…
Continue reading …A classy young man at a high school in suburban Chicago faces expulsion after publicly ranking the looks and sexual promiscuity of the girls in his school in great detail and, of course, posting it on Facebook. After that, he printed out the list and distributed it in fliers around…
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