Reuters: In an interview with GQ magazine, the Republican National Committee chairman described abortion as an “individual choice†and said individual states should decide its legality.
I agree with Crowder: When the headlines are more over-the-top than any joke one can form from them, it certainly makes comedy challenging. “Try making the idea of released detainees going back to terrorism funny”? Hey, according to the Pentagon,
Reuters reports: Obama’s Safety Net: the TelePrompter No other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small…Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on
A 23.3 rating this year, compared to last year’s record low of 21.9. The headlines read, “Oscar Ratings on the Rise.” If George W. Bush ran the Academy they would read, “Oscar Viewership Barely Keeps Up With Annual Increase in
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Reuters: The FBI said on Thursday its agents found Texas billionaire Allen Stanford in the area of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and served him with court papers accusing him of
Reuters: The Department of Homeland Security told the New York Times “that a program of this kind could negatively impact law enforcement’s ability to investigate and bring cases against the perpetrators of these horrible crimes.”
Go to YouTube and type in, “I Pledge” for the latest insufferably, self-important pat on its own back courtesy of Hollywood. The video montage is Tinsletown’s way of pledging fidelity to Barack Obama and letting him know that…”You’re Not Alone!”
Reuters: The Islamist militants said on Saturday they had executed the Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, who they kidnapped in September, because the government had refused to free 60 captured militants before Friday’s deadline.
Reuters: Preliminary evidence indicated the blaze began in the smoking room.
Reuters: Patrick Swayze was hospitalized January 9, hours before he was scheduled to appear at a gathering of television critics to promote his new TV crime drama, “The Beast.”
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Reuters: Actor Ricardo Montalban, best known as the debonair and mysterious Mr. Roarke on the popular television series “Fantasy Island,” died on Wednesday at the age of 88.
Reuters: The U.S. Congress officially declared Barack Obama as the next president of the United States in a ceremonial, yet constitutionally required state by state tally of the electoral college votes.
AP: A woman hiding among Iranian pilgrims with a bomb strapped under her black robe killed more than three dozen people on Sunday outside a Baghdad mosque during ceremonies commemorating the death of one of Shiite Islam’s most revered saints.
AP: Under the new security agreement between Washington and Baghdad to replace a U.N. mandate for foreign troops in Iraq, the Iraqi government also now has control of American troops’ actions and of the country’s airspace.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Reuters: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was without electricity for 12 hours at his vacation home on Oahu following a major blackout across Hawaii’s most populous island.
Reuters: Speaking at a banking congress German President and former IMF President Horst Koehler said profits caused banks to turn a blind eye or knowingly ignore risks.
Reuters: Flights were grounded, banks and schools were shut and hospitals ran on emergency services as a general strike shut down Greece. The industrial action piled more pressure on a conservative government hit by the worst riots in decades. Workers
Reuters: Since launching two weeks ago on Rakuten, a major Japanese web shopping mall, the Wishroom shop has sold over 300 men’s bras for 2,800 yen ($30) each.
Reuters: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he’s confident that Russia will weather the global economic crisis with “minimal losses” and he pledged to maintain rises in social spending. The Russian Prime Minister faced a barrage of questions about rising
Reuters: As a United Nations climate change conference opens in Poland on Monday, activists illustrate their desire to ‘crack the climate nut’. Activists from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) distribute walnuts and nut-crackers to curious passers-by.
Reuters: It will be released in the spring, and its image will be revealed on Monday at New York’s Ellis Island, a former entry point for immigrants that Hope passed through when he came to the United States from England
Embedded video from CNN Video Reuters: Michael Jackson and a son of the king of Bahrain signed an out-of-court settlement on Monday ending a legal dispute under which the prince sued the pop star saying he reneged on a recording
Reuters: The 4,600-year-old grave in Germany containing the remains of two adults and their children provides the earliest evidence of a nuclear family.
Reuters: Japan’s first recession in seven years combined with Europe’s downturn, painting a grim picture for global recovery.
Reuters: Iraq and the United States signed a pact on Monday that will let U.S. troops stay in the country until 2011.
