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President Barack Obama appeared forceful and emotional yesterday as he spoke about gun control amid falling support for the measures. The president directly connected the push for new laws with the shooting last December in …
For Tori Locklear, her how-to video quickly turned into a how-don’t. The Florida middle-school student recently catapulted to online infamy when she posted an instructional video on YouTube with the very telling title: “Burning My …
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and wife Melinda are continuing their quest to save the world one not-so-glamorous problem at a time. Recently, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $100,000 prize for anyone who …
Senators who once opposed gay marriage are falling like dominoes this week, following the stunning reversal of Ohio’s Rob Portman. The latest are Mark Warner of Virginia and Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
Warner claimed his views …
Reality divas Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian are used to causing controversy. But, when it came to avoiding this latest controversy, the girls’ hands were tied…literally.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians stars were featured bound-and-gagged …
Are you familiar with the “swatting” phenomenon? If not, it goes a little something like this: Someone with too much time on their hands and no concept of the amount of time, work, and money …
After already passing the strictest abortion limit in the country, North Dakota lawmakers yesterday approved a measure that will see voters decide whether embryos are entitled to all the rights of citizens.
The so-called “personhood amendment” …
Elizabeth Warren is a liberal crusader on just about every issue. She excoriates Wall Street bankers and impotent federal regulators; she demands a tripling of the minimum wage; and she toes the party line on …
Just weeks after scientists announced that a baby born with HIV was effectively rid of the disease, a new study claims that 14 adults have been “functionally cured.” The news offers hope that, while the …
CNN itself became the story on Sunday while reporting the “guilty” verdict for two teens in the Steubenville rape case. The cable news network is accused of sympathizing with the convicted rapists and ignoring the …
Recently, a woman by the name of Jessica Rocha from Colorado was having trouble controlling her children. Specifically, she couldn’t get her 8-year-old stepdaughter Aurora to stop stealing things from stores. And, she couldn’t get …
Jessie J wasn’t joking when she sang she “could do it like a brother, do it like a dude.”
The 24-year-old British singer and songwriter shaved off her signature jet-black bob live on television for the …
I usually try to ignore whatever the latest political “shock” video is- hearing Ann Coulter or Donald Trump say something offensive really isn’t surprising or necessarily newsworthy. But this video of a random attendee at …
The photographer behind the infamous “47 percent” video of Mitt Romney has finally stepped forward. His name is Scott Prouty, and he was a bartender at a Florida fundraiser where Romney was speaking.
Prouty says he …
The gun violence in Chicago has truly gotten out of hand.
On Monday, 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins was shot along with her father Jonathan Watkins, 25, while Watkins was changing the baby’s diaper in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. …
The NYPD has another controversial shooting death on their hands. On Saturday night, two undercover officers shot and killed 16-year-0ld Kimani Gray, claiming that he pointed a gun at them. But witnesses say the boy …
Global warming is a real thing. Although some people out there have tried to disprove the existence of global warming, the findings of a new study that were just released in the Science journal indicates …
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is committed to a cause that, in his eyes, is very important right now. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Hurricane Sandy relief, although that is one of …
A plagiarism scandal involving two of the web’s most popular sites has opened up a debate about the world of online writing. Hugely popular viral content creator BuzzFeed was caught yet again copying a thread from influential …
James O’Keefe, the boyish conservative activist who rose to prominence for secretly filming employees at ACORN, has settled a court case by agreeing to pay $100,000 and apologize to a fired employee. The settlement marks …
