John Oliver screenshot

John Oliver: Republicans resisting immigration reform ‘like a child with vegetables’

Maddow screenshot

Maddow points out ‘fetal masturbation theorist’ is vice chair of House’s health panel

Professor William Ayers via Wikimedia Commons

Bill Ayers: Obama should be put on trial for war crimes

Samantha Bee on LGBT bullying of Christians

Daily Show’s Samantha Bee explores the right’s ‘giant temper tantrum’ about LGBTs

Science

Winds on Venus have accelerated to 250 mph over the past six years

Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over…

Read More

World’s first baby born using ‘natural’ IVF technique

A team of doctors at the Imperial College in London, England announced this week that…

Read More

Australian researchers map 280 hidden craters on the Moon

Australian scientists Tuesday said they had identified a possible 280 additional craters on the Moon,…

Read More

Increased air pollution doubles risk of pregnant women having autistic children

Pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of air pollution were twice as likely…

Read More
Tech News

Google asks court for permission to publish government data requests

WASHINGTON — Google said Tuesday it asked a special US court handling national security investigations…

Read More

Photographer sues BuzzFeed for copyright violations and ‘subsequent infringements’

Website removed picture after initial complaint, but lawsuit alleges ‘direct and contributory infringement’.  A photographer…

Read More
Media

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson’s husband cautioned by police

British art collector Charles Saatchi has accepted a police caution for assault following an incident…

Read More

Netflix partners with Dreamworks to offer original animated shows

Netflix inks a deal with Dreamworks for exclusive animated TV programming (via The Inquirer) VIDEO…

Read More
World

Fearing the U.S., Wikileak’s Assange will stay in Eucador’s London embassy

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean…

Read More

North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un urges top officials to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf

North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to his top officials, urging them…

Read More

Young American pianist resurrects lost works of Nazi concentration camp inmates

Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the…

Read More

Court rules Pirate Bay co-founder can be extradited from Sweden to Denmark

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is accused of involvement in one of Denmark’s biggest hacking attacks The Swedish co-founder of the Pirate…

Read More

Russian lawmakers back bill to ban foreign adoptions by same sex couples

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday backed a bill which would place tough restrictions on adoption to countries where same-sex marriages are…

Read More
U.S. News

Chrysler agrees to recall of 2.7 million Jeeps

Chrysler announced Tuesday that it would bow to the US safety regulator’s pressure to recall…

Read More

Beck: Immigrants ‘learned from the Klan… they are just changing their hood’

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck told Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Tuesday…

Read More

Houston man arrested for threatening to kidnap and murder Ted Cruz

A Houston man is charged with threatening Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), leaving messages at his…

Read More

Seattle woman quits ‘live on light’ diet because ‘message from universe’ told her to stop

Shine went for 47 days without food but says financial difficulties she’s enduring are ‘message…

Read More

Idaho Republicans: Void anti-discrimination laws in case ‘gay guy’ works ‘in a tutu’

Cornel Rasor, who chairs the Idaho Republican Party’s resolutions committee, says that he pushed for…

Read More

Rep. Mike Rogers on Snowden: ‘Anything that he talks about is dangerous’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican head of a congressional panel on Tuesday said officials are…

Read More

Judge considers giving alleged Ft. Hood shooter more time for self-defense

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people…

Read More