AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was Thursday accused of attempting to hire a hitman as part of a murder plot after police raided his New Zealand home. Police swooped on a house at Tauranga in the North Island early Thursday and charged a 60-year-old man...

Young Turks host Cenk Uygur had a dire forecast on Wednesday for climate change efforts in the Senate following Republicans’ midterm election romp, with Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), a strident denier of climate change, likely to gain more...

Mississippi’s long-serving prisons chief resigned abruptly on Wednesday amid a federal case in which prosecutors have moved to seize his assets. Federal prosecutors earlier this year acted to seize Christopher Epps’ home, a vacation...

Authorities in Pennsylvania are searching for a man allegedly breaking into Amish and Mennonite womens’ rural homes and assaulting them, WGAL-TV reported on Wednesday. State Trooper Ryan Lawrence said the latest victim, a 21-year-old...

Thousands of protesters marched in Mexico City on Wednesday to demand the safe return of 43 students missing since last month after authorities arrested the main suspects in the disappearance. Demonstrators chanted “they took them alive,...

The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden during his career is a 38-year-old Montana native currently working as a motivational speaker, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. The Mail identified the man as Rob O’Neill, a...

Missouri’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a St. Louis circuit judge ruled on Wednesday. The decision comes a day after a federal judge ruled that neighboring Kansas also was violating the constitution by refusing to allow...

ESPN ripped comedian Artie Lange on Wednesday for a series of tweets containing graphic sexual and violent comments about First Take host Cari Champion, Sports Illustrated reported. “His comments were reprehensible and no one should be...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson found out the hard way this week that not all conservatives were happy that he was using his Daily Caller website to objectify women. During a live Tuesday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a caller...

The Republican wave that hit the U.S. Congress in Tuesday’s midterm election also boosted the party in state races, where it gained control of 10 chambers and could be on track to holding the largest number of legislative seats since...

Protesters will gather outside the White House and in a dozen US cities on Thursday to demonstrate against a “hybrid” solution now being considered to end a stalemate over regulating the internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is...

There are few customers in the New Makati pub, one of a string of bars along Hong Kong’s Lockhart Road. It was here that Seneng Mujiasih – a 29-year-old Indonesian – officially employed as a domestic worker – was last seen alive. On Friday, she...

Voters in one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. elected a neo-Confederate Republican to serve on their council. Michael Peroutka won election Tuesday to the Anne Arundel County Council in Maryland, reported Right Wing Watch, despite...

A software firm is developing a program to detect whether a person’s medical device was externally hacked in order to kill them, according to New Scientist. As far-fetched as it might sound, wireless hacking of medical devices is a real...

A long-shot Nevada candidate who dared the president to put him on his “kill list” claims his gubernatorial bid was denied by election fraud. David Lory VanDerBeek, an Independent American Party candidate, said Wednesday that he was official...