The thousand-page document dump released Friday on Chris Christie’s political bridge-closing scandal revealed just which journalists began knocking on the Port Authority’s door the week of the “traffic study.” The first to cover it, John Cichowski, found an angry, perplexed Fort
The New Jersey legislature stunned the media world with an extensive, thousand-page document drop providing more evidence that Gov. Chris Christie’s staff closed down part of the George Washington Bridge for political retribution – and even blamed the Mayor of Fort Lee
Many–if not most–of those following the unfolding drama surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are having a hard time making heads or tails of the reason behind the act. Rachel Maddow is one of them, presenting a convoluted theory involving
Muslims born outside of the Middle East and returning to their native lands radicalized are becoming and increasing problem in Europe and Australia. A new report from the New York Times suggests that Syrian militants are trying to radicalize Americans, as well.
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s despot for the better of a half a century turned secretive retiree, allegedly made his first public appearance in nine months at an art show in Havana this week. The New York Times reports that video has
The New Jersey State Senate passed a bill this week mandating that schools teach middle school children responsible use of social media to avoid disclosure of personal information, bullying, and inappropriate sexual content production. According to NJ.com, the bill’s principle
France is fining Google $204,000 for a 2012 decision to change the privacy policies of about 60 different Google properties and merge them into one, without giving users a way to opt out of the new policy. According to Reuters,
Vladimir Putin is seeking to unite nations formerly attached to Russia through the Soviet Union with an economic partnership that would make them a challenge to the European Union. The AFP reports today that Putin’s plan for a “Eurasian Union”
Anthony Weiner is taking a less-than-political approach to his return to the public eye. The former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate, disgraced by a series of online sexual follies, is set to play himself in the season finale of
A downtrodden Governor Chris Christie apologized to the people of New Jersey today in his first press conference since the revelation of emails proving his staff’s involvement in creating traffic problems on the nation’s most trafficked bridge as political retribution.
The family of American missionary Kenneth Bae, currently serving a labor camp sentence in North Korea, was “appalled” and “outraged” by basketball player Dennis Rodman’s insinuation that Bae deserved to be imprisoned on CNN yesterday. Sister Terri Chung spoke to
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has banned unrelated men and women from talking to each other over the internet or on social media. This latest fatwa came about as an answer in his regular online Q&As with the public. As
The attorney heading the internal investigation into potential unfair targeting of conservative groups by the IRS is a frequent and significant donor to both the Democratic National Committee and President Obama, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed today, in what he calls
U.S. officials told the Washington Post that Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and leader of a paramilitary group with al-Qaeda ties, had a role in the Benghazi embassy attacks on September 11, 2012. Qumu, currently a leader
The urban celebrity website Mediatakeout made waves Tuesday with what it claims is a “world exclusive” on the lavish celebrations of Blue Ivy Carter’s birthday. According to the site, Jay Z and Beyoncé have bought the girl a purebred Arabian horse.
The first attorney in history to receive admission to a state bar association despite being in America illegally says practicing law isn’t the limit for him; he might run for governor of California. Sergio García, who was brought into the
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson is lashing out at his own company for what he calls “terrible mistakes” in covering the UK’s internal immigration debate. The network, he alleges, decided on its own that concerns about large influxes of immigrants
With reports of labor abuse on the rise and the public too busy outraged by the Sochi Olympics to give a World Cup a decade away a proper look, the New York Times has begun to take on the plight
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s memoir has caused quite a bit of stir in the media and the White House, as the former member of the Obama administration candidly disparages the Obama foreign policy and, in particular, Vice President Joe
An elaborate kickback scheme defrauding Social Security out of millions uncovered in Manhattan could lead to as many as 100 or more arrests, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. A former Long Island prosecutor, a pension consultant, and two
In a public display worthy of the strangeness of North Korean propaganda, Dennis Rodman and his team of former NBA all-stars beamed into CNN’s New Day live from Pyongyang. Rodman did not hesitate to explode at host Chris Cuomo for asking
Kim Kyong Hui, the younger sister of Kim Jong-Il and aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, has not been seen in public for months, and media reports are surfacing that she has either died, killed herself, or mysteriously disappeared.
The military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi and subsequent outlawing of the Muslim Brotherhood have left the radical Islamist group in shambles, but not entirely defeated, a report from the New York Times reveals today. Egypt is wrought with pockets
Dennis Rodman is off to North Korea for a fourth time. This time, the former NBA player returns with an all-star basketball crew of his own, set to play an exhibition game for dictator Kim Jong-Un’s birthday. Rodman repeated once
Global warming experts adrift in Antarctica since Christmas have finally been rescued, as the valiant efforts to save the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy were documented throughout the mainstream media. Yet one major detail – what the ship was doing in Antarctica at
