Exclusive: 2 million mentally ill people missing from national gun check system
The issue of gun control leapt back into the national discourse in the wake of January’s Tucson massacre. But one of the most shocking gaps in the effort to prevent people prohibited by law from...
View ArticleDC bill would ease access to birth control pills
WASHINGTON – A new bill introduced in the DC council would allow women to buy birth control pills over the counter without a doctor’s prescription, according to the Washington Post. The measure, put...
View ArticleWisconsin Legislature strips state workers of bargaining rights
The Republican-led Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill to bust public workers unions Thursday afternoon, after Republican state senators managed to bypass Senate Democrats who fled the state and pass the...
View ArticleFifteenth passenger dies after horrific NY bus crash
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A fifteenth passenger died on Monday from injuries suffered in a weekend bus crash on a New York highway, authorities said. None of the 32 people on board escaped death or injury...
View ArticleObama, pushing re-election bid, vows relief on gas prices in Oprah appearance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said he was seeking ways to provide “immediate relief” for high U.S. gasoline prices as he courted women voters with an appeal on pocketbook issues...
View ArticleLouisiana House panel votes to ban abortion
A House committee in Louisiana voted Tuesday to ban abortions, a controversial move that sends the bill to the floor for debate. The House Bill 587, sponsored by Republican state Rep. John LaBruzzo,...
View ArticleACLU challenges Georgia ‘show me your papers’ law
The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and other rights groups are challenging in federal court Georgia’s law to crack down on illegal immigrants. The law, allegedly inspired by a controversial...
View ArticleApple takes leap into new iCloud services
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it...
View ArticleNation’s largest nurses’ union urges Obama to oppose cuts to social programs
The National Nurses United (NNU) union said Thursday that it strongly opposed further cuts to social programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and urged the president to join them. Instead...
View ArticleNorth Carolina woman arrested for castrating man with bare hands
A 35-year-old North Carolina woman was arrested last weekend for allegedly castrating a man with her bare hands, according to the Shelby Star. The woman, Joyce Maxine Gregory, is accused of forcibly...
View ArticleNYPD detective suspended after cops trace kidnapping victim to his garage
An NYPD veteran detective has been suspended as police investigate his involvement in a bungled kidnapping in which the victim was discovered in the detective’s own garage. According to the New York...
View ArticleNew Jersey court declares texters can be held responsible for actions of...
On Tuesday, a state appeals court in New Jersey ruled that texters can be held civilly responsible if they “knew or had special reason to know that the recipient would view the text while driving and...
View ArticleDNA from 12,000-year-old skeleton help prove first Americans did not come...
The remains of a small, delicate teenage girl who fell to her death in an underground cave system in Mexico 12,000 years ago have thrown fresh light on the origins of the first Americans. Cave divers...
View ArticleBill O’Reilly threatens New York Times reporter while defending Argentina story
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter covering the questions plaguing his account of reporting in Argentina following the Falklands War. According to the Times, the remark...
View ArticleHere’s why the right-wing is as obsessed with brainwashing your kid as with...
Sure, the war on education helps Republican lawmakers destroy unions and slash government spending, but it’s our history of progressive change that makes Conservatives hate accurate depictions of our...
View ArticleGeraldo Rivera blows his stack when Dan Savage slams Fox: ‘Fxck you jerk off’
Geraldo Rivera issued a tart retort Thursday night to Dan Savage – who claimed Fox News would trash Bristol Palin for becoming pregnant a second time out of wedlock if she were not a conservative. “If...
View Article‘Go Set a Watchman’ buyers get a refund at this Michigan bookstore
A Michigan bookstore is offering a full refund to some customers who purchased Harper Lee’s recently published lost-and-found novel, Go Set a Watchman. Brilliant Books, located in Traverse City, says...
View ArticleIowa man says he needed surgical mask to punch stranger because he’s...
A man was arrested Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa, after allegedly telling police that he attacked an African-American man because he was “allergic to black people.” The victim told told police that the...
View ArticleSlain woman’s suspected killer to decide who gets custody of her son
Enrique Macotela, who was arrested and charged with killing Magdalena Weich, the mother of his child, has been given the power to decide who should be guardian of their five-year old boy, a Broward...
View ArticleMegachurch shares ‘God’s love’ by booting kids from preschool if they’re...
A megachurch that runs its own preschool program is accused of discriminating against children with disabilities or health problems. Calvary Church’s Child Development Center in North Carolina declares...
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