A female TV presenter, Nawras al-Nuaimi, was murdered by gunmen near her home in Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday, according to her station, Al-Mosuliyah TV. She was the fifth journalist murdered in Mosul since October. Mosul has the reputation of being
Former CBS Evening News host Katie Couric will be moving from ABC to Yahoo! That will require a pay cut to $6 million per year, but that’s reportedly for mere part-time work – she was paid $15 million per year
Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira, 22, fell to his death while working on a stadium in the Amazon jungle for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Ferreira fell from the roof of the stadium when his cable broke and he crashed almost
American youth seem to perpetually be giving the world new words. One such word is “pwn.” Wikipedia defines pwn as a “slang term derived from the verb own, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term
Describing him as both a “Teddy Roosevelt” and a “rock star,” Time has chosen Pope Francis as its Person of the Year. The Pope, now in his ninth month of papacy, has made waves for everything from his attitude toward enforcing
America’s tech giants have joined forces to ask the Obama administration to reign in the scope of government surveillance. In a letter published today, the tech companies write they “believe that it is time for the world’s governments to address the
(AP) Tech giants call for controls on gov’t snoopingBy DANICA KIRKAAssociated PressLONDONMajor technology companies, stung by poor publicity for having helped the U.S. government access personal data, on Monday issued an open letter to President Barack Obama asking for tighter
The State of Israel may not send a senior political figure–either President Shimon Peres or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu–to South Africa for the memorial or funeral of former President Nelson Mandela this week, citing costs and security concerns. Similarly, the
Reports are showing The U.S. unemployment rate is at a five year low. According to Reuters “U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in November and the jobless rate hit a five-year low of 7.0 percent…” Reuters says the new number could
Having nationalized a large number of domestic and international businesses, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has moved on to nationalizing Christmas. The socialist government of Venezuela released an official Youtube Christmas carol this week urging businesses to lower the prices of
President Obama stood in the Rose Garden and promised a “tech surge” to fix healthcare.gov. In reality, the surge was a tiny influx of “about a half-dozen people.” In a multi-page story on the effort to rebuild the troubled website,
Argentine-born Pope Francis wrote the newly released Evangelii Gadium (“The Joy of the Gospel”) in his native Spanish, which may help to answer some thorny questions being raised about the English translation of the pontiff’s first solo official document (the recent
The Hollywood Reporter reports that left-wing journalist and talk show host Katie Couric’s career flop is now complete. Her association with ABC News is ending a year early and her ABC daytime talk show is almost certain to be canceled
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – 13-Year-old Payton Moody spent hours constructing her candy-covered volcano for her eighth grade science class. Kara Moody, Payton’s mother, told GoodMorningAmerica.com that her daughter “had chocolate as the mountain and used Twizzlers for lava coming out, with blue
Hugo Chavez’s successor has essentially abolished his nation’s legislative process. Nicolás Maduro, a former bus driver turned senior official appointed to succeed the late Chavez, has called for expansive governing powers to combat the countries impending economic breakdown, finally collecting enough
Last week, I wrote about a gay N.J. waitress, Dayna Morales, who, instead of a tip, received an insulting note on a receipt, reading: ‘I’m sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle and how you
In my last post, “Washington & Wall Street: So Why Can’t We Prosecute the Banksters?,” we started to get into some of the historical antecedents of financial regulation. In this post let’s take the analysis a bit further and start
(AP) Rodriguez walks out of own grievance hearingBy RONALD BLUMAP Sports WriterNEW YORKAlex Rodriguez walked out of his grievance hearing Wednesday after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz refused to order baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to testify. Horowitz was in the midst of
A 100-yd flag was ripped during the singing of the National Anthem at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo during windy conditions before the Buffalo Bills game on Sunday against the New York Jets. Photo Credit: Deadspin
All it took was a political train wreck of gargantuan proportions for liberal comedians to turn on President Barack Obama. For five years most comedians treated Obama with care, avoiding punitive comedy memes, focusing on the GOP whenever possible and,
Another day, another news story about a waitress being left an angry, bigoted note instead of a tip. Back in September, an African-American waitress at a Red Lobster in Tennessee claimed she received a receipt with the word “none” scribbled
On Wednesday, CNBC’s Laurence Delevigne argued that the business community would put the final nail in the coffin of the tea party. “The recent elections underlined a growing tension in political money circles,” Delevigne wrote. “Business people are increasingly fed
“Nearly everyone who gets a lucrative offer will leave. The era of the lifelong Timesman — or lifelong Timeswoman — is over.” That’s what an anonymous former New York Times journalist told HuffPo’s Michael Calderone when asked about the alarming
Walmart’s President and CEO Bill Simon wrote in an op-ed for Yahoo Finance that U.S. military veterans are having trouble finding work when they return home, and that his company would be happy to help them find jobs at Walmart. “As more than
Last week, the artist currently known as Lady Gaga hinted at plans to perform in space. Over the weekend, she unveiled a contraption that signals more than just a waning interest in aviation: the world’s first flying dress. Sunday, the
