Saudi comedian Adel Radwan could riff on the many cultural differences between his country and western nations during his stand-up act. Instead, Radwan pokes fun at more traditional topics, the kind that don’t press a single hot button. So when Radwan
Writing at Slate, Forrest Wickman examines the etymology and origins of the holiday’s name. Today is Good Friday, the day on which Christians commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. The name may seem counterintuitive to many Christians and nonbelievers,
A 31-year-old woman will spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole in the murder of her boyfriend in their Jackson apartment. MyFoxDetroit.com reports that Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain told Camia Gamet at
The Washington Post‘s Robert Costa and Philip Rucker report: One rainy morning this month, the man who thought he would be president boarded a train near his beach house in San Diego. He stepped off in Burbank, Calif., and caught
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving three missing in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak. The Sherpa guides had gone
Writing at the American Thinker, Raymond Ibrahim examines the phenomenon of the radicalization of Muslims in the Western world. A new Danish statistical study finds that “Muslims [are] 218 percent more criminal in second generation than first.” While some of these crimes
In the second of a ten-part series called The Ten Today, Emmilie Buchanan-Whitlock at Deseret News writes about the third of the Ten Commandments and its meaning for modern America: Melissa Thurm started a religious blog in October to share her
The US city of Portland, Oregon, is ditching 38 million gallons of drinking water from a reservoir after a teenager was caught on camera urinating into it, officials said Thursday. The water — enough to fill nearly 60 Olympic-size swimming
(Reuters) – At least one member of the Biden family will be seeking higher office in 2016.
Former Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler is becoming one of Hollywood’s more vocal Democratic supporters. Poehler lent her voice to the battle to promote the flailing, failing ObamaCare reform, and she uses her Parks and Recreation gig to worship at
The team behind the upcoming TV movie about convicted killer Kermit Gosnell counted on the public to help them fund their project. They said that the mainstream media and Hollywood didn’t give Gosnell’s horrific crimes the attention they deserved. The
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the literary prince of the magical realism movement, has died at the age of 87. A prolific writer who started out as a newspaper reporter, Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece was “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a dream-like, dynastic
In the first of a ten-part series called The Ten Today, Mark A. Kellner at Deseret News writes about the third of the Ten Commandments and its meaning for modern America: When she’s in a courtroom, Wendy Patrick, a deputy district
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the year of the baby: Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child later this year. The 34-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
WASHINGTON (AP) — A report released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says President Barack Obama’s budget request would mean significantly larger budget deficits than the White House claims. CBO says the budget plan proposed last month by Obama
Photographers can nip and tuck plenty when it’s time to capture a celebrity subject. Just ask Lena Dunham, the uber-feminist who didn’t seem to mind when Vogue did just that to her in a highly publicized photo spread. Now, we’re
CONAKRY (Reuters) – The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Guinea has risen to 122, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure of 108.
From the Daily Mail: As Rome prepares to celebrate its official 2,767th birthday, archeologists believe they have unearthed fresh secrets about the ancient city. They claim the discovery of a boundary wall of the river port of ancient Rome suggests
From Amanda Hess in Slate: In 2009, Cameron Anderson, a psychologist at the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business, decided to run an experiment on his students. He gave them a “list of historical names and events, and asked
Actor Antonio Banderas may call Los Angeles home these days, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots or his faith. The Desperado star returned to his native Spain this week to celebrate Holy Week. He also joined the Catholic processions in
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican salsa legend Cheo Feliciano died in a car accident early Thursday, prompting the governor of the U.S. territory to declare three days of mourning. Feliciano was alone in his Jaguar when he
HONOLULU (AP) — A former child model and aspiring actor is accusing “X-Men” franchise director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing him as a teenager in a federal lawsuit filed in Hawaii. The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the prominent director of
A Nigerian school principal on Thursday denied reports from the military that most of the students kidnapped from her school by Islamists were now safe, saying that only 14 of the 129 taken had escaped. “The report from the military
Ukrainian troops repelled an overnight attack on their base in the southeast city of Mariupol, killing three of the assailants and wounding 13, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Thursday. Around 300 people mounted the attack using guns and petrol bombs
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is keeping to himself his favorite to succeed him in the White House. But Obama does say that Joe Biden “will go down as one of the finest vice presidents in history.” He didn’t
