20-Year-Old Turkish Man Becomes First Confirmed Death In Istanbul Protests
Following a week that saw demonstrations in Istanbul spread to other cities and an increasingly brutal police response, the first death in Turkey's anti-government protests has been confirmed.According...
View ArticleEveryone In The UK Is Going Nuts Over A Report On A Secret Love Affair With...
On Saturday night, British newspaper the Daily Mail dropped a bombshell report that said Prime Minister David Cameron was dealing with the fallout of a secret love affair between two members of...
View ArticleJustice Scalia Writes A Scathing Dissent Opposing Forced DNA Collection
Justice Antonin Scalia often makes off-color and downright offensive comments, but today he wrote a dissent that makes a persuasive argument against forced DNA collection of people who've been...
View ArticleNew Syria Documentary Contains The Most Intense Moment We've Ever Seen In A...
One key thing has been lost amidst reports of foreign fighters and al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels fighting in the Syrian civil war: the revolution began with an Arab Spring "Day of Rage" on March 15, 2011,...
View Article104 Guys Arrested As Part Of Massive 'Backpage' Prostitution Police Sting
Long Island police have arrested 104 men— including bankers, lawyers, and doctors — who allegedly answered ads for prostitutes on the adult website Backpage.The ads were placed by undercover cops who...
View ArticlePictures From Raid On Alabama Bunker Show Just How Tough A Job The FBI Had
When armed Vietnam veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes stormed onto an Alabama bus in January and demanded that two young boys leave with him, bus driver Charles Poland refused to surrender.And he paid the...
View ArticleThe Brutal Police Crackdown On Istanbul's Protests Has Clearly Backfired
Protests in Turkey continued for the fourth straight day on Monday.And for the fourth straight day, Turkish police were on the offensive.The violence prompted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to...
View ArticleLAW PROFESSOR: Here's What Clarence Thomas Got Wrong About Affirmative Action...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and law professor Kevin Brown are both black graduates of Yale Law School during the affirmative action era.Yet while Thomas's experienced at Yale turned him...
View ArticleIRS SCANDAL: New Evidence Undermines Tea Party Groups' Bias Claims
Nearly three-quarters of the political groups subjected to extra tax inspection during a recent IRS scandal were not identifiably opponents of the White House, officials have revealed.Republicans have...
View ArticleSocialite Entangled In Petraeus Sex Scandal Says FBI Violated Her Privacy
Jill Kelley — the Tampa, Fla. socialite involved in the sex scandal between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell last year — has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and Department of Defense for violating...
View ArticleCat Detained At Russian Prison After Illegal Smuggling Mission
MOSCOW (AP) — Inmates at Russia's prisons have been known to bribe guards to obtain cellphones. But using cats as couriers?Guards patrolling a prison colony in Russia's north saw a feline on the fence...
View ArticleOscar Pistorius Gets His Murder Trial Delayed Until August
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African judge on Tuesday postponed until August 19 the murder trial of global athletics star Oscar Pistorius, who has been charged with shooting dead his girlfriend on...
View ArticleUS Tourist Allegedly Gang-Raped In India
An American tourist has been gang-raped by a truck driver and two of his accomplices after hitching a ride in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, police said Tuesday."The 30-year-old was...
View ArticleThe Absolute Worst Places In America For Law School Graduates
By now, even law schools themselves acknowledge that they've been churning out too many graduates for too few available jobs. Less widely appreciated, however, is that the lawyer glut appears to be...
View ArticleColorado Theater Shooter Gets To Plead Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday accepted James' Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, setting the stage for a lengthy mental evaluation of the Colorado theater shooting...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Suspect's Mother Releases Recording Of Son's Prison Phone Call
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger suspect in April's Boston marathon bombings, is allowed to call his family in Dagestan once a month.Nick Sturdee, a reporter for the U.K.'s Channel 4, was recently...
View ArticleUpper East Side Parents Sue Over A 'Discriminatory' Gifted Program
NEW YORK CITY — Offers of coveted gifted and talented spots have been put on hold after a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education's methodology was filed.It's the latest glitch in this year's...
View ArticleA Michigan Couple Is Fighting To Keep Their Beloved Pet Deer
A Michigan couple is fighting to keep their pet deer.According to local news station WNEM's Erik Horn, whose story is now going viral, the family adopted the deer five years ago after her mother was...
View ArticleThis Cold-Blooded Murderer Could Help Prove There's A 'Killer Gene'
Why do people kill? This isn't an easy question to answer, but criminologist Adrian Raine believes some people are pre-programmed to be violent.He has written a new book on the subject — "The Anatomy...
View ArticleHouse GOP Passes Anti-Abortion Law Certain To Be Challenged In Court
House Republicans have voted to extend a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks in the District of Columbia to apply in every state in the nation.The bill would limit a woman's access to...
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