Texas Troopers forcibly arrest 72-year-old woman during Wendy Davis filibuster
A 72-year-old woman who appeared to be doing nothing more than observing Texas Senate proceedings following state Sen. Wendy Davis’ (D) filibuster of an abortion bill was forcibly arrested and charged...
View ArticleArmy reportedly blocking all access to Guardian coverage of NSA leaks
On Thursday afternoon, The Monterey County Herald reported that the US Army was restricting access to the UK version of The Guardian's website. The Heralddiscovered yesterday that the site was blocked...
View ArticleThe Japanese practice of catching & killing some 1,000 whales a yr can't be...
The Japanese practice of catching and killing nearly 1,000 whales a year cannot be justified as science, an expert witness told the World Court on Thursday in a case Australia has brought against...
View ArticleIn India Airline GoAir opts for female crew to save fuel by reducing overall...
The falling rupee has claimed a new victim — the male cabin crew. Low cost carrier GoAir has decided to recruit only airhostesses from now on instead of the 'heavier' male flight pursers. The idea is...
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Top 20 most visited museums in the world
Europe is the leader when it comes to museum culture, with nine of the top 20 visited sites split between London and Paris. Prepared by analysts at Themed Entertainment Association and AECOM, the 2012...
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NASA's Voyager 1 craft enters unfamiliar space in solar system
NASA's Voyager 1 has reached a strange new region at the outer reaches of the solar system, a new research has said, suggesting that it has entered interstellar space. First launched in 1977, the...
View ArticleTeenager jailed for months, faces up to 8 years in prison for a comment made...
A Texas teenager who has been in jail since March faces an eight-year prison sentence because of a threatening joke he made while playing an online video game.In February, Justin Carter was playing...
View Article5 healthy snacks that are under $2
Is finding a cheap, healthy snack taking up more time than it should? In this episode of Savvy Spender, we take a look at smart snacks for under $2 per serving with the help of nutritionist and creator...
View ArticleThe Best Food Choices You're Not Making
You've heard about ridding your diet of anything your grandparents wouldn't recognize, but it goes back farther than that. Turns out, we've made our food less healthy over the past 10,000 years. But...
View Article7 Foods that Fight Aging
1. Avocado The green fruit that could has fat. That's right, it contains monounsaturated fat. This is a good thing. The fat is so tiny it can slip through membranes and protect cells from free radical...
View ArticleAnonymous vows to turn over North Korean military secrets to WikiLeaks
South Korean hackers with reported ties to Anonymous have released details regarding 13 North Korean “cadres,” or high-level operatives, according to Daily NK.The group, according to Daily NK’s Park...
View ArticlePentagon slammed for $1 billion deal with banned arms dealer
A government watchdog criticized the Pentagon on Friday for forging ahead with controversial helicopter purchases from a Russian arms dealer despite warnings the Afghan special forces unit due to...
View ArticlePolice pull guns on and arrest UVA student for...purchasing bottled water
When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in...
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After four years as a hostage, this soldier may at last be released... but...
America’s only prisoner-of-war may finally be coming home. Four years after Private Bowe Bergdahl was seized from a dusty no-man’s-land in Afghanistan, his parents are this weekend negotiating directly...
View ArticleOutrage after Mayor Bloomberg says whites are stopped and frisked more...
Mayor Bloomberg’s off-the-cuff comments have finally come back to bite him.Hizzoner declared yesterday that whites are stopped and frisked at a higher rate than minorities based on city crime...
View Article8 Surprisingly Poisonous Foods We Eat
One of the great perks of being around during this phase of human history is that we seem to have a relatively good understanding of food. Which doesn't mean that we are necessarily heading in a great...
View Article8 Banned Foods You Can Still Find in the U.S.
Last week, Buzzfeed released a list of foods that are banned in several places around the world, but still available in the U.S. Check out the list of banned ingredients and see what foods are being...
View ArticleFoods That Regulate Your Heartbeat
Nowadays heart problems have become the predominate cause of death. Fatty foods, lack of exercise and stress have created a downward spiral in heart health. The first step to eliminate cardiovascular...
View ArticleAt 11 billion miles from Earth Voyager 1 still sending data
Voyager 1 is on its way to becoming humanity’s first-ever interstellar spacecraft. Having spent more than 36 years flying through space and, in that time, traveled more than 11 billion miles from...
View ArticleNSA can store a billion cell phone calls each day
In a new revelation, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald has said that the U.S. government has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day.Greenwald, who earlier this month revealed about the...
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