Ferguson judge behind aggressive fines policy owes $170,000 in unpaid taxes.
The judge in Ferguson, Missouri, who is accused of fixing traffic tickets for himself and colleagues while inflicting a punishing regime of fines and fees on the city’s residents, also owes more than...
View ArticlePolice lineups cause false accusations up to 60% of the time. But now...
We’ve all heard of eyewitness and even earwitness accounts. But the future of forensics may revolve around nosewitness identification, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS. Imagine a...
View ArticleHealth focus shifts to gut microbiome and nurturing 'good' bacteria
Our guts are at the height of their glory. Most health-conscious humans accept, somewhat blindly, that our gut bacteria — or the gut microbiome — are key to our overall health and ability to fight...
View Article10 Reasons You Can’t Lose Your Gut
Packing a spare tire doesn’t just make it hard to button your jeans. Unlike fat on other body areas, stomach flab is largely composed of what’s called visceral fat, which surrounds your vital organs...
View Article"Black Lives Matter" assembly excludes other races. Parents upset.
A Black History Month event at Oak Park and River Forest High School may have kick-started a schoolwide discussion on race — but not in the way school officials intended.Several white parents, none of...
View ArticleU.S. Companies Are Stashing $2.1 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxes
Eight of the biggest U.S. technology companies added a combined $69 billion to their stockpiled offshore profits over the past year, even as some corporations in other industries felt pressure to bring...
View ArticleTech support scammer threatened to kill man when scam call backfired. "We...
Tech support scammers should probably just hang up the phone when a scam call goes wrong. But one scammer took things to a new level by threatening to kill a man who pointed out that the scammer was...
View ArticleObama Wants To Rename Thanksgiving To Immigrants Day
Reports are circulating that Obama administration officials want to change the name of Thanksgiving to “Immigrants Day.”Right Wing News reports:Obama is so keen on destroying American culture and...
View Article'Free Range' Parents Found Responsible for Child Neglect After Allowing Kids...
A Maryland couple who was being investigated for allowing their two children to walk home alone from a neighborhood park have been "found responsible for unsubstantiated child neglect" by the state's...
View ArticlePetraeus won't serve a day in jail for his leaks. Edward Snowden shouldn't...
The sweetheart deal the Justice Department gave to former CIA directorDavid Petraeus for leaking top secret information compared to the stiff jail sentences other low-level leakers have received under...
View ArticleA New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low
We still don’t know how many people the police kill in the U.S. annually. But we’re getting closer.In the past two months, the president and his attorney general have said they need better data on the...
View ArticleNASA’s chief confirms it: Without Russia, the $140 billion space station...
NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden acknowledged Wednesday there is no back-up plan to fly the International Space Station if Russia cuts off U.S. access to space."We would make an orderly evacuation,"...
View Article10 Evidence-Based Fat-Burning Foods and Beverages
When it comes to losing weight, not all foods are the same. Some foods can increase the amount of calories you burn, kill your appetite, or both. This can be caused by protein, fiber, as well as many...
View Article12 Health Benefits of Rosemary
Rosemary is a Mediterranean herb with needle-like leaves and pink, blue, or purple flowers. The word "rosemary" comes from the Latin words ros (meaning "dew") and marinus (meaning "sea").It is used in...
View ArticleHere’s What Happens to Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar
Sugar: natural reward, unnatural fixIn neuroscience, food is something we call a “natural reward.” In order for us to survive as a species, things like eating, having sex and nurturing others must be...
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8 Inspiring Women From History
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating by honoring some of the most inspiring, revolutionary and unconventional women of all time. There are plenty of well-known and celebrated women on...
View ArticleLittle Girl’s Response to a Boy Calling Her Ugly in School is Perfect
When a little boy called a four-year-old girl ugly, she gave him a hilarious verbal smackdown that included some valuable lessons wise beyond her years.In the video posted online Siahj 'Cici' Chase's...
View ArticleU.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is currently on the Subcommittee on Privacy,...
Discussing the controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using her personal email account for government business, a top Senate Republican revealed that he has never sent an email in...
View ArticleTwo California Tourists Arrested For Engraving Their Names In Rome's...
Tourists are once again getting into trouble in Italy, with two American women caught carving their names into Rome’s Colosseum.The Californians, aged 21 and 25, snuck away from their tour group on...
View ArticleThe Shocking Truth About Daylight Saving Time
Pop quiz time! True or false?1. Daylight Saving Time helps us conserve energy.2. Daylight Saving Time was developed to help farmers.3. Daylight Saving Time unequivocally reduces traffic deaths.The...
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