Wisconsin prosecutors are pushing on with an already invalidated investigation into Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, this time going so far as to say that Walker engaged in a “criminal scheme” by illegally coordinating his campaign efforts with outside groups.
Gold-medal Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken has released the shocking x-ray images of the recent spinal cord injury she suffered that left her paralyzed from the waist down. The images also show the effects of a risky surgery meant to pin
A family who bought a dog through an ad on Craigslist just gave the animal back to a recently returned soldier after finding out that the soldier’s girlfriend sold the dog without his permission while he was deployed overseas. When
When the members of the Dallas County Commissioners Court approved a resolution to celebrate Juneteenth this month, they got a surprise. It turns out the group also accidentally approved a call for reparations for the pre-and-post-Civil War enslavement of African-Americans.
Two new studies of the U.S. job market claim that applicants who include religious affiliations on their resumes are less likely to be called back by prospective employers. A series of experiments conducted in the south and the New England
Earlier this week, Aaron Hernandez’ attorneys complained that his former team, the New England Patriots, was dragging its feet on releasing the ex-player’s employee records. Now Hernandez’ lawyers are asking a judge to issue a subpoena to force the team
After a month-long operation across six Midwestern states, the Department of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that a crackdown on criminal aliens and other immigration violators netted 297 criminals. Fifty-nine were arrested in Chicago alone. “Operation Cross Check,”
Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, the doctor made a TV star by Oprah Winfrey, wasn’t a big hit on Capitol Hill when Senators questioned his claims about certain weight loss products that could produce “miracle” results. On June 17, Dr. Oz
The Phoenix Veterans Administration is back in the spotlight — this time for handing out $10 million in bonuses to doctors and administrators as hundreds of veterans waited to see doctors, some dying before receiving healthcare. The Arizona Republic of Phoenix recently
Donald Trump was given permission to put his name in giant, one-story-tall letters on his downtown Chicago building, but as soon as the sign went up he began to get complaints from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others. When real estate
Defense attorneys for jailed former football star Aaron Hernandez are blasting the New England Patriots for their “silence” on his personnel records, a move they say hampers their defense. It might seem unsurprising that the Patriots have been reticent to
President Obama’s State Department is holding a conference about the ecological threats facing the world’s oceans, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be a featured speaker. Upon the announcement of the actor’s participation in the Our Ocean conference, Secretary of State
As Ukraine meets increased violence from pro-Russian forces and Iraq suffers near collapse with hundreds murdered by Islamic radicals, The Huffington Post thought it was most important to feature the news that President Obama is “at last” taking on the
Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, already facing three charges of murder in two separate cases, pled not guilty to an alleged assault on another inmate and asked the court to dismiss one of the murder charges today. The former
A pregnant mother who found out she had a malignant tumor in her eye has elected to save the life of her baby by having her cancerous eye removed instead of having radiation therapy to save her sight – a procedure that
It was another bloody weekend in Obama’s hometown of Chicago as the city celebrated Fathers day. By the time the weekend drew to a close, two were dead and 25 wounded in violence across the city. As the weekend began
The controversy over the firing of Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich over his views on traditional marriage is still reverberating, with a long article at CNET.com claiming Eich’s ideas on gay marriage were already well known before he became CEO and that
Which Major League Baseball team boasts the best fans? The most fair-weather fans? Which tickets run the cheapest? A wide-ranging new survey of the fans in cities that host a major-league baseball teams seeks to answer these questions and the
A Chicago man who was cleared of murder by DNA testing after spending 32 years in jail for the crime has been charged with a new murder, Chicago police reported Last week. A little over a year ago Andres Davis
The Republican controlled legislature in South Carolina recently infuriated liberal groups by insisting that state universities teach students about the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents. The SC House of Representatives had recently cut funding for two state universities that
Even as Iraq is falling to renewed attacks by radical Islamists, pro-Russian forces escalate the killing of Ukrainian soldiers, and as thousands of illegal immigrants are surging across our borders causing misery and a national health crisis, President Obama has
In a move sure to depress values, the U.S. Marshals Service plans to auction off nearly 30,000 bitcoins confiscated during its investigation into drug dealers on the Internet’s “Silk Road.” The federal government confiscated just over 29,000 bitcoins last fall
Disgraced New York Democrat Anthony Weiner is claiming that he “accidentally” favorited a tweet from an Internet hookup app. Weiner made a stir on Friday, June 13, when Twitter users noticed that he favorited a tweet from the Internet hookup
For the past two years, a union that represents professional musicians and the video game industry has been at loggerheads over a contract dispute, but one award-winning composer has dared to cross that picket line. Now, he is being criticized
Once again former President George Herbert Walker Bush, often called Bush I, has indulged his hobby of skydiving, this time to celebrate his 90th birthday. “I got one more left in me,” the former president said on NBC’s Today. “It’ll
