Police Shoot Gunman During Movie Screening In San Diego
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Moviegoers at a San Diego theater ducked for cover as officers stormed in during a film screening and shot and critically wounded a gunman hiding in their midst.No one else was hurt in...
View ArticleMIT Is Investigating Its Role In Aaron Swartz's Suicide
MIT president Rafael Reif has published an open letter to the academic community offering condolences to the family and friends of Aaron Swartz.He also promised an investigation into MIT's role in a...
View ArticleNewtown Police Chief: Criminals Shouldn't Have Stronger Guns Than Cops
Speaking out for the first time since a massacre left 27 dead, Newtown, Conn. Police Chief Michael Kehoe says it's time for a big change.In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Kehoe urges lawmakers...
View ArticleMost Americans In 12 Years Want Stricter Gun Laws
The percentage of Americans saying they want "stricter gun laws" has spiked in the last year to its highest point in 12 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Monday.In the poll, 38 percent of...
View ArticleProfessor Sues Law School That Called Him A Safety Risk For Students
A law professor is suing the school that suspended him after he was accused of sexually harassing a student and a staff member.In his lawsuit, tenured professor Vernon Traster claims Ohio Northern...
View ArticleNow America's 32nd President Is Being Tossed Into The Law School Debate
A prominent law school professor is now arguing that if America's 32nd president only needed two years of law school, there is absolutely no reason to have a third year now.As top legal scholars and...
View ArticleSonia Sotomayor's New Book Could End Up Being An Elegy For Affirmative Action
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's memoir, My Beloved World, will be released in just a few days, which means it will be available to the world just a few weeks before her...
View ArticleParents Refuse To Split Up Students In Newtown After School Massacre
As parents debate what to do with the building where one of the country's worst massacres happened, they have agreed the surviving students need to stick together.Parents gathered in Newtown, Conn.,...
View ArticleHow New York City Keeps Subway Deaths From Slowing Down The Transit System
New York's subway stations see more than five million passengers every weekday alone, so when a death happens within a station, the body needs to be removed immediately — even if that means stashing it...
View ArticleHow One Stupid Mistake And $35,000 From Kickstarter Made An Average Guy Bankrupt
Seth Quest had never founded a company. He was just a designer with a good idea for an elegant iPad stand called Hanfree.He and his business partner, Juan Cespedes, created a Kickstarter page and...
View ArticleAaron Swartz's Lawyer Explains Why He Would Have Won The Data Theft Case
Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Reddit cofounder, committed suicide this weekend, months before he was scheduled to go to trial for the alleged theft of scholarly articles at the MIT campus.Copyright...
View ArticlePorn Star Sues Over New Condom Rule
It was passed about two months ago, but Los Angeles' porn community is still fighting a new rule requiring actors to wear condoms when shooting explicit scenes.Vivid Entertainment, Califa Productions...
View ArticleIs There Really A Difference Between Publishing Gun Owners' Addresses And...
Gun rights advocates are so angry at a Westchester County, N.Y. newspaper for what they see as a major privacy invasion that they're sending reporters envelopes full of suspicious white powder.But is...
View ArticleUnranked New England Law School's Dean Has An Outrageous Salary
The Boston Globe reports that New England Law School's longtime dean, John F. O'Brien, may be among the highest paid law school deans in America at more than $867,000 a year in salary and...
View ArticleObama Says He Refuses To Negotiate With Those Holding 'A Gun At The Head Of...
In the final press conference of his first term, President Barack Obama warned he would not negotiate with Republicans who he said were holding "a gun at the head of the American people" over raising...
View ArticleNew Natalie Wood Death Report Questions 'Every Major Finding' In Original...
The Los Angeles Coroner's Office released a new report today suggesting the actress Natalie Wood may have been assaulted before she drowned in 1981, NBC reports.Wood drowned in 1981 off Santa Catalina...
View ArticleClarence Thomas FINALLY Speaks
It's been more than six years since one of the high court's most conservative justices uttered a word during oral arguments.But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly ended his silent streak...
View ArticleA City Where All Teens Would Be Required To Carry Loaded AR-15s
Gun enthusiasts want to build it in the mountains of Idaho. They've already drawn up plans and are taking applications. Imagine that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg built a private city of his own...
View ArticleViolent Crimes In The US Jumped At The Beginning Of 2012
While some types of violent crime dropped early last year, as a whole, violent crimes were up across the country, according to a new FBI report.The number of violent crimes increased from January...
View ArticleTwo Deaf Twins In Belgium Allowed To Die In Unique Euthanasia Case
Identical twins were killed by Belgian doctors last month in a unique mercy killing under Belgium's euthanasia laws.The two men, 45, from the Antwerp region were both born deaf and sought euthanasia...
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