Ohio to delay 7 executions while searching for new drugs
Ohio said in early January that it will add thiopental sodium, a drug the state used for lethal injections from 1999-2011, the department said. Thiopental sodium and pentobarbital will be…
Month: January 2015
While NFL concussions are down, parents continue to debate football safety
As families across America prepare to watch the Super Bowl, the safety of the game remains hotly debated in households across the country. After mounting concerns about brain injuries plaguing…
Measles cases in California soar
The California Department of Public Health sent out the latest numbers Friday of confirmed cases since December and while the total is still small, the jump was a startling 54…
‘Prime Evil,’ pro-apartheid assassin, granted parole
His nickname: Prime Evil. After apartheid fell, he was put on trial and sentenced in 1996 to two life sentences plus 212 years in prison. – Masutha granted de Kock’s…
Tamir Rice’s Family Files Amended Lawsuit Over Police Shooting
An amended wrongful death lawsuit over a Cleveland policeman’s fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy includes claims related to his parents and sister and references to other use-of-force cases. Tamir…
Canada Seeks to Strengthen Spy Agency After Attacks
OTTAWA — Citing the attacks by radical Islamists that killed two Canadian soldiers in October and the more recent assaults in France, Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced sweeping legislation on…
‘The Scars Of Teen Drug Treatment’ Reveals How Kids Were Once Abused
In the early 1970s, Art Barker, a failed nightclub comic and recovering alcoholic in Florida, seized on an idea that he thought could help win the war on drugs: If…
Ramarley Graham’s Family To Receive $3.9 Million From NYC For Police Shooting
New York City agreed Friday to pay $3.9 million to the family of a black Bronx teenager shot to death by a white police officer in 2012. The deal settled…
The NFL’s Trashtalker Of Truth
The first thing you learn being in town during Super Bowl week is that this time of year makes everyone insane. There hasn’t been a single story—not a single shrug—that…
Sexism: The Original Sin Of The Church (All Together Podcast)
Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER — the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice inform our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is…
Greece’s New Finance Minister: ‘You Have To Be Prepared To Blow The Whole Thing Up’
Greece will neither seek an extension of its controversial bailout nor cooperate with the so-called “troika” of international creditors, the country’s new finance minister declared Friday, following up on a…
California Measles Outbreak Grows
More measles cases have been found in California, health officials said Friday. Figures released by the California Department of Public Health showed there are now 91 confirmed cases in the…
Seahawks Richard Sherman Faces Dilemma With Baby And Super Bowl
Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Friday it will be Richard Sherman’s decision whether to play in Sunday’s Super Bowl if his pregnant girlfriend goes into labor with the couple’s…
‘Person Of Interest’ Identified In San Francisco Suitcase Of Body Parts
SAN FRANCISCO — Police released surveillance images of what they call a “person of interest’ linked to the grisly discovery of human remains stuffed in a suitcase abandoned on a…
Oscar Isaac On His ‘Powerful, Flawed’ Latino Character In ‘A Most Violent Year’
At the height of his struggle to survive in the lucrative but cutthroat heating oil industry during the most violent year in New York City history, Abel Morales exclaims: “I’ve…
Hagel: U.S. Ground Troops Could Be Needed In Iraq
WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview on Friday the United States might eventually need to send non-combat ground troops to Iraq to…
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Sheldon Silver Resigns New York Assembly
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced his resignation as two lawmakers jockeyed for his position Friday following federal charges that the longtime leader took nearly $4 million in kickbacks….
We Promise This Wedding Photo Isn’t As Inappropriate As It Looks
The morning of the wedding can be an emotional roller coaster for the marrying couple — that we know. But here’s one groom who was simply unable contain his, er,…
Balloon Pilots Break World Record With Trip Across Ocean
By Joseph J. Kolb ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan 30 (Reuters) – A pair of balloonists trying to fly to North America from Japan passed a major milestone on Friday that could…
Hagel: Gitmo transfers caused friction with some at White House
Those comments come just one day after reports surfaced that a Guantanamo detainee released as part of the deal that freed American POW Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may have sought to…
15 Questions To Ask Yourself To Help You Start Really Living
so slowly you didn’t even notice that it was happening. Your present and future don’t have to continue in drab shades of grey. – Like Dr. Phil | Follow Dr….
China Nears Peak Coal, But Its Rustbelt Pays the Price
China’s great coal boom is grinding to a halt, and the consequences for both the global climate and hundreds of millions of Chinese factory workers could be dramatic. Three trends…
Official: Gunman recorded terror attack on Parisian kosher grocery
The information backed up a report by Eric Pelletier, a national security reporter at the French magazine L’Express, who wrote that Amedy Coulibaly recorded seven minutes of the attack, including…
UVA Students Say Banning Sorority Members From Frat Parties Is ‘Dangerous’
Many students at the University of Virginia think banning sorority members from attending parties celebrating the end of fraternity recruitment this weekend could backfire on the national sorority organizations that…
Why You’re Probably Lying To Yourself – And How To Stop It
Your internal dialogue may be the loudest voice you hear most of your waking hours. It is the real-time, real-language conversation you have with yourself every moment of every day,…
Banksy Exhibit Inspires Ex-Drug Addict To Change His Own Life Through Art
An artist is crediting Banksy’s works with turning his life around. Jamie Scanlon, who uses the moniker “JPS,” is a graffiti artist in Weston-super-Mare, England, with difficult backstory. Though he…
The Deliciously Healthy Pancakes That Surfers Eat For Breakfast
If you thought surfers lived off of fish tacos and Coronas, think again. Today’s professional surfers are health freaks. – You don’t have to tell us twice to guiltlessly indulge…
Former Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Woman: I Grew Up In Kiryas Joel And I Wasn’t Allowed To Drive
Frimet Goldberger grew up in Kiryas Joel, New York, an ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic community about an hour’s drive northwest of New York City. An overwhelming majority of the village’s 22,000…
Ohio Executions Rescheduled
The state on Friday rescheduled executions for seven death row inmates as it tries to find new lethal drugs, meaning no inmate will be put to death in Ohio in…