Congratulations are in order for Courtney Stodden and her husband Doug Hutchison – they are expecting their first child together. The 21-year-old reality star was the center of controversy when she married Doug at just 16. He is 34 years her senior. “It’s a bittersweet time for me right now. I’m dealing with a lot [...]
The United States and other allied nations say they will work to provide Libya’s internationally recognized government with weapons officials there say are needed to battle ISIS and other militant groups gaining strength. The Libyan Government of National Accord said it would submit requests to be exempted from UN arms embargoes currently in place to […]
A top Senate Republican said Monday that Donald Trump should release his tax returns, despite the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s resistance to do so while under audit. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Senate’s No. 4 Republican, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room” that it would be a “good idea” for Trump to do […]
BuzzFeed scored a coveted interview on Monday: A sit-down with President Obama at the White House. It was billed as the president’s “first interview on Facebook Live,” the relatively new live video service that Facebook is promoting. There was only one problem: Facebook Live didn’t cooperate. Some sort of technical glitch stopped BuzzFeed from live-streaming […]
Poisoning is among the leading causes of death worldwide, defined as someone being exposed to a substance — such as drugs or alcohol — that can damage or endanger their health. In the United States, poisoning is recognized as the leading cause of death from injury by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the […]
South Korean author Han Kang won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize on Monday for “The Vegetarian,” a novel about a women who gives up eating meat. The Man Booker International Prize celebrates non-English language books translated and published in the United Kingdom. According to the Man Booker website, the work can be “written in […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday narrowly confirmed one of President Barack Obama's nominees to be a federal judge in Maryland, overcoming opposition from some conservatives who felt nominee Paula Xinis was too tough on law enforcement in her career as a lawyer and assistant federal public defender. Backed by her state's two Democratic senators, Xinis won support from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Forty-four... Читать дальше...
Wilmette police spokesman Eric Peterson said O’Connor was located, though he wouldn’t say where she was found or release details about her condition. A spokesman for the parishioners’ group says they plan to start an independent Catholic church not affiliated with the archdiocese. Sarah Iler and the baby’s father, Matt Rider, were headed Wednesday from Cape Girardeau, where they lived, to a hospital in Poplar Bluff, a city about 60 miles southwest where she grew up, when his SUV was struck by a tractor trailer. Читать дальше...
In disgust over Republican criticism and the West Virginia Legislature's delay in implementing a budget, Democratic nominee for governor Jim Justice has asked lawmakers to remove a $1.75 million state sponsorship of the PGA Tour's Greenbrier Classic. … Click to Continue »
As part of a gruesome campaign called "Behind the Leather," PETA Asia teamed up with global advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather to create a fake pop-up leather goods store in one of Bangkok's trendiest malls. But inside the leather was shockingly realistic animal carnage to protest cruelty in the leather industry.
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Supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders during the Nevada Democratic Party’s convention at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel on Saturday.
Julius La Rosa, the celebrated 1950s singer who reinvented himself as a television, stage and nightclub performer after his young career was thrown into turmoil by a bizarre and humiliating on-the-air firing by Arthur Godfrey before a national audience, died Thursday at his home in Crivitz, Wis. Like many fresh talents discovered by the powerful Godfrey, Mr. La Rosa had been plucked from obscurity, taken into the “Little Godfrey” family, paid a salary beyond his wildest dreams and exposed to colossal television and radio audiences. Читать дальше...
After struggling for years to build its own social network, Google is trying again — this time with a confusingly designed app called Spaces.
Antonio Salieri, relegated by posterity to the shadows as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s journeyman contemporary, will always have Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” to augment his notoriety, if not his fame.
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Minnesota high school coaches find themselves the targets of critical Facebook and Twitter posts from increasingly forceful parents.
The heartbroken mom of a young girl who was killed wants the reckless driver to change his life.
The German international had warm praise for his former coach after spending time under his wing at Bayern, while Dani Carvajal is also reportedly a target at the Etihad Stadium
"I am proud to announce that tomorrow, on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, we will be tabling a bill in the House of Commons to ensure the full protection of transgender people," Trudeau said on Monday in Montreal.
Former President Bill Clinton holds a campaign event on behalf of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
A Kew man is "lucky to be alive" after a tram slid off its tracks and careered into his bedroom where he lay sleeping.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In disgust over Republican criticism and the West Virginia Legislature's delay in implementing a budget, Democratic nominee for governor Jim Justice has asked lawmakers to remove a $1.75 million state sponsorship of the PGA Tour's Greenbrier…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In disgust over Republican criticism and the West Virginia Legislature's delay in implementing a budget, Democratic nominee for governor Jim Justice has asked lawmakers to remove a $1.75 million state sponsorship of the PGA Tour's Greenbrier…
