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Thieves Paid Entrance Fee Before Allegedly Stealing $3 Million Worth Of Art...

Thieves entered a South African art gallery as paying visitors before holding staff up at gunpoint and producing a "shopping list" of paintings they wanted totalling R27m (£2 million) in value.The...

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Why Veterans Like Anthony Smalls End Up In Prison

Anthony Smalls never knew life after the Navy could be harder than life in it.Smalls served in the United States Submarine Service from 1981 through 1996.But by the next year, after months of...

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REPORT: John McAfee, The Antivirus Software Inventor, Is Wanted For Murder...

Gizmodo reports that John McAfee is wanted for murder.McAfee got rich developing antivirus software back in the eighties.The company named after him, McAfee, Inc, sold to Intel for $7 billion in...

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Heartbreaking Story Of A Teenager's Murder Shows Just How Corrupt Honduras Is

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a capital so dangerous that only the "walking dead" are said to venture out after dark, nothing could draw an obedient son from the safety of his parents' suburban home...

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Major Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Says Citizens United Doesn't Go Far Enough

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United that corporations can spend freely on political campaigns through independent groups such as "super PACS."But it's still illegal for corporations to...

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Microsoft's Patent Fight With Motorola Could Help Others Avoid Patent Warfare

Microsoft will square off against Motorola Tuesday in a case that could determine how much companies can charge others for licensing industry standard technology, The Wall Street Journal...

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Google Will Have To Make A Deal If It Doesn't Want To Get Sued By The US

Google Inc. is being pressed by U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to make an offer to settle the agency’s antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a formal...

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UK Teen Arrested For Posting A Picture Of A Burning Poppy On Facebook

Police in Kent will question a man on Monday after an image of a burning poppy was posted on Facebook alongside an offensive comment.The 19-year-old from Aylesham, near Canterbury, was detained on...

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Illegal Immigrants Are Lobbying To Win The Right To Practice Law In 50 States

A nonprofit group called the DREAM Bar Association is lobbying every state in the union to grant law licenses to undocumented immigrants.The group wants all 50 states to enact laws allowing graduates...

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The Other Woman In The Petraeus Scandal Has Hired Some 'Very Expensive'...

Jill Kelley, the "other woman" in the scandal that cost CIA director David Petraeus his job, has lawyered up, reports Donna Leinwand Leger at USA Today.Kelley, an "unpaid social liaison" at MacDill Air...

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Huge Crime Spree In Brazil's Largest City Leaves 140 Dead In Two Weeks

It was a more than typically murderous Saturday night in São Paulo: at 10pm, in the São Bernardo do Campo neighborhood, a motorcyclist rode up to a private home, killed two of the residents, then sped...

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Twitter Just Lured One Of Google's Top Legal Eagles Out Of Retirement

Twitter, whose ranks are already stuffed with former Googlers, has hired another one: Nicole Wong, who left the search engine last year after nearly eight years as Google's chief fighter against...

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The Most Compelling Reason For Keeping The Electoral College

Every presidential election seems to prompt the question: what good is the Electoral College?Well, there is at least one practical reason why the system should stay as it is, according to Judge Richard...

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FBI Agent In Petraeus Case Removed After Allegedly Sending Shirtless Photos...

The federal agent who launched the investigation that eventually led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus was taken off the case during the summer over concerns that he "might have grown...

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The FBI Just Raided Paula Broadwell's House!

FBI spokeswoman Shelley Lynch tells CNN that FBI agents were at the North Carolina home of Paula Broadwell, the biographer and reported mistress of former CIA director David Petraeus. The scandal...

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There's No Way To Stop Children From Viewing Porn In Starbucks

Last week's debate in the Lords on the proposal to stop opt-out pornography filters was a perfect parable about the dangers of putting technically unsophisticated legislators in charge of technology...

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Sonia Sotomayor Goes On Sesame Street And Ruins Every Little Girl's Dream

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stopped by Sesame Street last week to essentially dash Abby Cadabby's hopes of having a career as a princess. "Abby pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is...

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Whistleblower Claims The Energy Market Is Rigged

Power companies are "regularly" manipulating Britain's wholesale gas prices, a whistleblower has claimed.Last night City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and energy regulator Ofgem both...

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Eric Holder Is Reportedly Staying On As Attorney General

As little as four days ago, the country's attorney general said he was unsure whether he stick with the president for another four years.But today the New York Post has learned Eric Holder will be...

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One Law Professor Essentially Wants To Do Away With Law School

A Northwestern law professor has come up with a revolutionary proposal about how to fix the legal education crisis.Basically, he wants to do away with law school.In a January op-ed for The Wall Street...

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