Russian Lawmaker Wants To Investigate Lady Gaga For Supporting Gays
Lady Gaga is the latest artist to offend the sensibilities of Russian conservatives after the pop star spoke out for gay rights at a weekend concert in St Petersburg.Vitaly Milonov, a conservative MP...
View ArticleHere's Proof That FedEx May Have Been Overcharging Its Customers For Years
Delivery specialist FedEx has been accused of "systematically" overcharging its business and government clients for nearly a decade, and an internal company message may be the smoking gun to prove...
View ArticleNew York's Attorney General Is Going After The City's Iconic Tour Buses
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is fighting back against "hop on, hop off" tour bus companies he says formed an illegal joint venture.The lawsuit, brought jointly with the U.S....
View ArticleThis Cup Changes Color To Detect Date-Rape Drugs
Every year, an estimated 1 million people are date raped, and many of them are victims of date-rape drugs, potent mixtures that disrupt the central nervous system. These drugs, often slipped into...
View ArticleThe Nation's Courts Are Going To Be In Big Trouble If We Go Over The Fiscal...
If Congress and the White House can't make a deal on automatic budget cuts, 2,000 federal court employees could soon be out of a job.In a letter to federal chief judges across the country, the Judicial...
View ArticleAfter Spending $150K On Law School, Recent Grads May Become Bloggers
The legal job market is pretty bleak right now.Demand for legal services dropped .8 percent across the board last quarter, and some law firms have been taking drastic measures just to keep their heads...
View ArticleNYPD Picture Shows Shooting Victim Being Stalked Before Execution
A 31-year-old man was shot and killed in broad daylight Monday in Midtown Manhattan near Columbus Circle.And based on pictures from the NYPD, it looks like the gunman stalked Brandon Lincoln Woodard...
View ArticleFacebook Helped The FBI Bust One Of History's Largest Cybercrime Rings
Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than...
View ArticleA Bitter Fight Over Concealed Weapons Could Reach The Nation's Highest Court
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal court ruling tossing out Illinois' ban on concealed weapons might end the last such gun prohibition in the country, but not without an expected fight.The question is whether...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Co-CEO And CFO Under Investigation In Tax Probe
This just in from the Associated Press's Twitter account: Bloomberg News reported earlier that Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters were raided today by authorities as part of a two-year-old tax...
View ArticleENDING SOON: Subscribe To A Newsletter For A Chance To Win An iPad Mini
Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleThe SEC Is Suing A Man Who Allegedly Specialized In Slipping Chinese...
In yet another sign that the SEC is pursuing fraudulent Chinese companies with a vengeance, the agency has filed a lawsuit against Huakang "David" Zhou, a man who allegedly specialized in bypassing...
View Article'Storage Wars' Star Claims Show Is Fake After He's Fired
"Storage Wars" fans, get ready for a dose of reality.According to star David Hester, A&E's top-rated program is a fake. If you've never seen an episode of the series, the show follows a group of...
View ArticleA Blind Man Is In Jail For Hitting His Girlfriend With A Car While Drunk
A drunk blind man who ran down his girlfriend when he drove after drinking five bottles of wine has been jailed.Scott Law, 33, who is registered blind, got behind the wheel of the family car after a...
View ArticleListing A Sketchy Chinese Company In The US Sounds Pretty Easy
Yesterday, the SEC filed a complaint against "David" Zhou for allegedly being a "gatekeeper" for Chinese companies that wanted to bypass disclosure regulations and enter the U.S. market.This is yet...
View ArticleExperts Explain Why The FBI's Hate Crime Statistics Are Pretty Useless
Take the FBI's report on hate crimes with a grain of salt.The data, which suggested that Mississippi had America's fewest hate crimes in 2011, is highly dependent on reports from local police, some of...
View ArticleIt Took This Investor 40 Years To Plan His Retirement And Two Years To Lose It
Ron McCabe did everything right.By the time he hit his early 60s, the San Francisco native and his wife had sold off the successful janitorial company they ran together for 35 years and were on their...
View ArticleThere's A Disturbing Trend Involving Anti-Gay Hate Crime In The US
While the number of hate crimes in America is going down, hate crimes against gays are not, according to the FBI's Hate Crime Report.In fact, the number of anti-gay crimes rose to 1,256 in 2011 from...
View ArticleREPORT: Feds Arrest Senate Intern Who Was Illegal Immigrant And Registered...
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez employed an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender whom immigration authorities arrested earlier this month, according to a report by The Associated Press. Luis...
View ArticleA Supreme Court Justice's Husband Tried To Get Her To Pop 'Disco' Drugs
Sonia Sotomayor, one of Barack Obama 's appointees to the high court, describes in a new memoir how her husband presented her with a bag of Quaaludes, a popular 1970s drug sometimes known as "disco...
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