Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has revamped a long-ago abandoned project to connect Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea by constructing a bridge, shortly after Russian military occupied the territory. According to Reuters, a bridge from the Russian region
For the first time in 39 years, Venezuelans were banned from watching the Academy Awards, thanks to “far-right extremists lobbying Hollywood.” That according to President Nicolás Maduro’s press secretary, Delcy Rodríguez, who spoke while Maduro issued more arrests against nonviolent
On February 28th Obama delivered a “hastily arranged” statement warning Russia against military intervention in Ukraine. According to Yahoo News, Obama said, “We are deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian federation inside of the Ukraine.”
Gotta give a quick shout out to “everywoman” Michelle Obama, who yesterday was kind enough to introduce the administration’s new, improved nutrition labels for food packages. The new labels are designed to make shopping less difficult for easily confused moms who
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Jimmermania began in Sacramento with hundreds of fans gathered at the airport to cheer the arrival of a player most had only watched on television or read about during the NCAA tournament. It’s headed for a
The White House may have been lucky that so few of the Obamacare exchanges worked last October. Newly revealed documents show that CMS staffers were aware of security flaws which made connecting them to federal databases a “high risk” proposition
It’s no secret that liberal Hollywood producers are under extra scrutiny these days. Last year saw huge box office disappointments in the form of White House Down, After Earth, The Fifth Estate and Elysium. It got so bad in 2013 that
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian TV star and former model Charlotte Dawson, who became an anti-bullying activist after she was targeted online, has been found dead at age 47. Famed for TV shows such as “Australia’s Next Top Model,” the New
Earlier this month, state water authorities revealed that many California farmers would receive none of their annual water allocation from the State Water Project. Now, federal water authorities have announced that the farmers will receive no water from the Central Valley Project.
The White House told Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich to withdraw security in Kiev as protests worsen and the death toll rises. “We are outraged by images of Ukrainian security forces firing automatic weapons on their own people,” White House spokesman
Ukraine protesters seized a Kiev post office and captured over 67 policemen. The violence is getting worse on both sides as the opposition to Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich grows more frustrated. On Wednesday, Yanukovich announced via his website that he
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf fired back Wednesday morning at criticism from the White House over his most recent economic report. The White House and CBO disagree over the effect raising the minimum wage would have on employment. The
An NFL hopeful has quit his job, exhausted his life savings, and is living in a minivan–even while the northeast was hit with bone-chilling temperatures and snowstorms–to pursue his dream of potentially making an NFL roster. Rashid Williams, who last
A friend pointed out an obvious contradiction in the Obama administration’s policy towards terrorism. In a series of “goodwill” gestures aimed at enticing the Palestinians to keep negotiating, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have forced Israel
An NFL report released on Friday about the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin bullying scandal also revealed that Incognito, Mike Pouncey, and John Jerry repeatedly slurred and harassed the Dolphin’s assistant trainer who was born in Japan. Incognito, who has a history
President Barack Obama has seen a tax he does not like. The President believes Olympic athletes should not be taxed for succeeding at the Games. “The president believes we should support efforts to ensure that we’re doing everything we can
Wendy Davis has become a ticking time bomb for the Democratic Party. Raising a third of the funds her Republican opponent has and cornered into supporting stances unpopular to the left, Davis abandoned her pet issue–support for abortion–on the day The
Russian superstar Evegeni Plushenko retired from competitive skating after he withdrew from the men’s short program at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “I think it’s God saying, ‘Evgeni, enough, enough with skating,’” said Plushenko, who originally was hurt
In response to Obama Is Everything ‘Alex’ Warned About: Another fun moment from Obama’s press conference with French President Francois Hollande, yesterday, occurred when a french reporter asked the president (Hollande – not Obama) about his ruinous Socialist policies. It should be
American snowboarder Shaun White did not even medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics, but he wants to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “I think so,” the American snowboarder told Matt Lauer on Wednesday. He will
On February 11, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas told students at Palm Beach Atlantic University that “northern liberal elites” did and said worse things to him than did citizens of Savannah, Georgia during the heyday of segregation. According to Yahoo, Thomas observed
The Olympics have become a real family event in my house. Two years ago I remember my daughter jumping off the couches and chairs as she imitated the gymnasts. Now my daughter and son are leaping off the furniture as they
Yulia Lipnitskaia may be the 15-year-old star at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, but it may come to a shock that she almost quit ice skating five years ago when she had to choose to move from her small town
After Russian snowboarder Alexey Sobolev put his cellphone number on his helmet during the slopestyle event on Saturday, he got so many naked photos from women around the world that his iPhone crashed. “Yeaaaaah,” he reportedly said said while pointing
Members of a polygamous marriage in Utah say they are no longer fearful of arrest now that a judge has struck down a major portion of the state’s anti-polygamy law, declaring it unconstitutional. As AFP reports, Joe Darger and his
Olympic snowboarders called the Sochi halfpipe “garbage” and “unsalvagable” in a Yahoo! Sports article Monday. The International Olympic Committee has responded to criticisms by postponing Monday’s competition in an eleventh-hour attempt to fix problems. “It’s the Olympics. It should be
Russian figure skater Yevgeny Plushenko is one of the country’s biggest stars and was also expected to be one of the biggest draws of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. That hasn’t been the case so far as he failed to
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) thinks January’s jobs report is a sign of progress, though economic analysts believe it represents, at best, an economy stuck in place. Even though the report showed that the economy did not add the 150,000
The national boycott of Girl Scout cookies is inundating the group leading it. John Pisciotta, the boycott leader and director of Pro-Life Waco, tells Breitbart News his phone is “ringing off the hook.” What started at Breitbart News has now
In addition to the nearly 500 snowmaking machines that will be in Sochi, Sochi organizers have been literally preparing for the Winter Games in Russia’s sub-tropical resort town by saving snow from previous Russian winters in case the machines cannot
On Monday, the nation’s largest tech companies began releasing data on the NSA’s requests for customer information. The data shows that the government requested information on thousands of Americans. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tumbler were allowed to reveal
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31 (UPI) — Attackers now own an undisclosed number of Yahoo! Mail usernames and passwords, stolen from a third-party site, the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant said. As a result, Yahoo! will now require affected users to change
In light of the recent terrorist attack in Sochi and the continued threats against the Winter Olympic Games, could it be that Russia is our best ally against radical Muslims in any form? Is Russia with a different Constitution and
Atlanta Braves legend Chipper Jones, who retired after the 2012 season, saved former teammate and current Atlanta Braves slugger Freddie Freeman on Tuesday on a four-wheeler while Freeman was stranded on the roads because of the freakish snowstorm that paralyzed
Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov told the media gays are not accepted in Sochi and claimed that the entire town is straight. “We do not have them in our city,” Pakhomov flatly told the BBC. Pressed further, the mayor backtracked a
The television landscape looks far different than when Bill Cosby ruled as NBC’s Must See TV patriarch. The comedian’s landmark sitcom The Cosby Show existed before binge viewing, DVRs and streaming competition. One other new element worth mentioning as Cosby
Catherine Samba-Panza, a French-educated businesswoman and lawyer, has been elected President of the Central African Republic. Samba-Panza was formerly mayor of the CAR’s capital Bangui, a city with a population of roughly 750,000. The UN has warned of “seeds of
Chris Christie is not about to say he sees himself capable of winning the presidency of the United States, especially not on the heels of a cluster of scandals that have threatened to engulf his administration. He did tell Yahoo
The new book Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack by Kevin Freeman is a stunning collection of factual research which lays out how a systematic international plan to bring down the U.S. dollar as the
The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication has grudgingly acknowledged that a November 2013 poll found that the number of Americans who think global warming is a myth has climbed to 23%, up seven percentage points since April 2013. The
