Is Scott Walker qualified to be president?
Of course, Republicans have made bad choices before. A recent Des Moines Register survey found Walker to be the first pick of 15% of the GOP faithful likely to attend…
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Hey, Pope Francis, where are all the married saints?
That conjunction of events has sparked a question: I wonder if my wife and I could ever be named saints, as a couple? I’m not being egotistical: I am far…
Verbal slip recalls stutter Biden overcame
But “buh buddy” is what came out. For a moment it appeared that the Vice President had said something strange about Smith. Smith represented Iowa in the House from 1959…
Federal judge: Alabama judges must issue gay marriage licenses
READ: Chief Alabama judge pledges to defy Supreme Court ruling – “This order should make clear to all of the probate judges across Alabama that they need to follow the…
Nerdmance… it’ll fog up your specs
Say farewell to holding hands and frolicking into a picturesque sunset because nothing quite says, “I love you” like killing a zombie and braving the Temple of the Forbidden Eye….
Oregon governor facing mounting calls to resign
READ: Oregon paper’s editorial board calls for gov’s resignation But sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Kitzhaber changed his mind, and his office released a statement around 2:40 p.m. on…
Republicans struggle to avoid Homeland Security shutdown
House Speaker John Boehner, pressed Thursday if he’d guarantee DHS wouldn’t be shut down, sidestepped the question, and instead repeated his mantra: The House had done its job. READ: Boehner…
Bush to make first New Hampshire trip
READ: Bush-linked company blocked government contract for blind, disabled – A week before he heads to New Hampshire, Bush makes his first stop in Iowa, the state that traditionally goes…
Amanda Knox engaged, source says
Knox, along with ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, was first convicted in Italy in Meredith Kercher’s death in 2009. After spending four years in an Italian prison, she was released and had…
Chapel Hill shooting attack on diversity
Let’s be real. People don’t die over parking spots. Craig Stephen Hicks was arrested on Tuesday over the deaths of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad, 21, and Razan Mohammad…
15 New Orleans must-do’s
Flexibility, a strong sense of adventure and a costume on Fat Tuesday will help Mardi Gras visitors make the most of it. While the Crescent City is never entirely predictable…
Israeli Supreme Court rejects appeal in Rachel Corrie case
Her parents filed suit against Israel’s Ministry of Defense in a quest for accountability and sought just $1 in damages. Previously, a judge ruled that the family has no right…
House honors Selma marchers, stalled on Voting Rights Act
READ: Down with ‘Notorious R.B.G.’ “As we look toward the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, it is certainly fitting to honor the brave individuals who against brutality and oppression, took…
True romance? Why this couple is getting divorced on Valentine’s Day
That’s the day a couple from Long Island, New York, with help from a company called DivorceHotel, will come together for the last time as husband and wife to finalize…
Washington police shooting of alleged rock thrower sparks protests
Police say the manwho was later identified as Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35had allegedly been throwing rocks at cars and trucks when he was confronted by officers. Officers attempted “voice commands and…
Federal court to hear Alabama school ‘rape bait’ case
The girl’s life was changed forever, she said, when the accused predator, a fellow student, allegedly sodomized her in a school bathroom. “I just felt like I was set up…
ISIS: Suspected terror cell leader in Syria
The manhunt for the suspected ringleader of a terror cell in Belgium has gone cold, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian-Moroccan ISIS fighter, is believed…
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Triple killing may not be a hate crime
The victims, two young women and a young man, were Muslim. The women wore distinctive hijabs. Many now wonder, including the families of the slain, if Hicks should also be…
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: What the critics say
Based on the highly successful novel by E.L. James, the film tells the steamy story of young, attractive billionaire Christian Grey (played by “The Fall” star Jamie Dornan) and the…
Female suicide bomber kills 7 at crowded Nigeria market
The bomber, wearing a hijab, detonated her suicide vest in the midst of shoppers at a weekly market in the town of Biu around 3 p.m. at the peak of…
Toni Morrison Fast Facts
Birth place: Lorain, Ohio Birth name: Chloe Anthony Wofford Father: George Wofford Mother: Ella Ramah (Willis) Wofford Marriage: Harold Morrison (1958-1964, divorced) – 2004 – Is awarded the NAACP Image…
Bush-linked company blocked government contract for blind, disabled
The Democratic super PAC American Bridge unearthed the move in a lawsuit from 2010, when Bush sat on the board of Clothesline Holdings, a New York-based holding company. The suit…
Fossils show earliest mammals that lived in trees and below ground
According to the new research, the tree-dwelling creature — Agilodocodon scansorius — had curved horny claws and spade-like front teeth that allowed it to gnaw at barkan adaptation seen in…
How much are we trashing our oceans?
That report released Thursday ranks countries that generate the most plastic debris into the oceans, with Asian nations taking 13 out of the top 20 spots. Using World Bank data…
‘Sniper’ trial: Investigator says handguns of Kyle and slain friend were fully loaded
Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was the subject of “American Sniper,” and his friend Chad Littlefield were wearing fully loaded handguns in their waistbands when they were found…
Senate set to clear Ash Carter to be Defense Secretary
He will take the helm at Department of Defense as the United States is immersed in several complex national security challenges across the globe, including the widening military campaign against…
Huckabee heads to Holy Land
“Israel is more than an American ally, she is a mirror image of America in commitment to religious liberty, women’s rights, free speech, elected government and an economic system based…
President Barack Obama: ‘YOLO man’
The video published on Thursday features Obama and BuzzFeed’s Andrew Ilnyckyj doing “things everybody does but doesn’t talk about.” Obama and Ilnyckyj practice their funny faces in the mirror, pose…
Rather: Bob Simon a scholar correspondent
This came to me in the middle of the night last night as I failed to make sleep come hours after learning that my friend and long-time colleague Bob Simon…