Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Backing Down From Food Stamp Fight
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) had previously said he wanted to fight the Obama administration over drug tests for food stamp recipients, but it turns out Walker would…
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Holocaust Survivor Salutes Liberator In Emotional Meeting Decades Later
A Holocaust survivor recently reunited with the American soldier who helped to save his life decades ago. Joshua Kaufman, 87, a former prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp in Germany,…
Katie Couric Returns To ‘Today’ To Relive 1994 In New Super Bowl Ad
Katie Couric is back. And suddenly it’s 1994. Fun having @katiecouric back in Studio 1A this morning! pic.twitter.com/WUV0hkVEvg –
‘Z For Zachariah,’ Like ‘Hunger Games’ For Older Siblings, Puts Margot Robbie On The Map
The classic scenario goes something like, If we were the last two people on earth… In “Z for Zachariah,” based on the book by the same name, that’s sort of…
‘My So-Called Life’ Series Finale Gave Us The Best Teenage Love Letter Of All Time
The series finale of “My So-Called Life” aired 20 years ago today, and we do not intend for the above headline to come off as hyperbole. This one episode of…
Adopt A Cockroach In Honor Of Your Worthless Ex
Feeling the sting of rejection? Itching to get even with an ex? The San Francisco Zoo is offering the burned and spurned masses the chance to “adopt” a hissing cockroach…
Naomi Watts Trips Over Emma Stone’s Dress On Stage At The SAG Awards
Watch out for those gowns. Naomi Watts tripped over Emma Stone’s gown while on stage with her “Birdman” co-stars accepting the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a…
John Oliver Auditions For ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey,’ With Handcuffs
“Professional swear word-sayer” John Oliver may not return to lambaste the news until next month, but he took to YouTube on Sunday to admit something really important about “Fifty Shades…
Rising Ocean Temperatures May Trigger Big Change In Sea Turtle Behavior
Warmer oceans will put the chill on sea turtle behavior, causing the endangered animals to stop basking on beaches within the next century. – Sounds like a sea change for…
Chris Berman Didn’t Have A Great Time At The Pro Bowl
Chris Berman really doesn’t want to talk to any damn quarterbacks right now, OK? OK, maybe his irritation during the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday was actually related to technical…
Ending Greece’s Nightmare
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing Syriza coalition, is about to become prime minister of Greece. He will be the first European leader elected on an explicit promise to challenge…
Cops: Drunken Driver Hit Squad Car While Officers Were Dealing With Other Drunken Driver
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — Police in a Dallas suburb say a drunken driver crashed into an empty squad car while officers were busy dealing with another drunken driver they…
Prosecutor Seeks 26 Years For Costa Concordia Captain
Prosecutors asked a court to convict the captain of the Costa Concordia and sentence him to 26 years in prison Monday for the 2012 shipwreck off Tuscany that killed 32…
Toll Of Filipino Commandos Killed In Rebel Clash Rises To At Least 43
At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which they may have killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted…
Survivors Visit Auschwitz A Day Ahead Of 70th Anniversary
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…
Pro-Russian Rebels Advance In Eastern Ukraine, Fighting Intensifies
By Natalia Zinets and Denis Dyomkin KIEV/ST PETERSBURG, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern…
Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out Of Gas Chamber Alive – NBC News.com
www.nbcnews.com: LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.
Charles Blow: At Yale, The Police Detained My Son – NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com: Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been…
Kurdish Officials Say They’ve Nearly Pushed ISIS Out Of Kobani
Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose…
Does Davos Actually Do Anything?
A surge of private jets—roughly 1,700—converged on Switzerland’s airports this week. The Swiss Armed Forces even had to open up a military base to accommodate the air traffic jam. That’s…
Walter Dean Myers: ‘Once I Began To Read, I Began To Exist’
The following is an excerpt from Scholastic’s Open a World of Possible, a book tied to the publisher’s reading initiative aimed to donate books and raise literacy levels. This essay,…
Victims Identified In New York Home Depot Shooting
New York City police have identified the two co-workers killed in a shooting at a Home Depot store in Manhattan. – About 70 employees were in the store. No one…
Here’s How To Be The Best Book Club Member You Know
Like any gathering of people, book clubs can be tough to sustain. They depend on the entire group’s ability to play by the rules and honor the mission of their…
Vaginas, As Drawn By The Women Who Own Them
“I know what it is, I just don’t know where it is.” – Read the whole story at Fusion
Trio Of GOP Presidential Hopefuls Pan Romney 3.0, Talk Income Inequality
WASHINGTON — A trio of Republican presidential hopefuls serving in the U.S. Senate participated in a quasi-debate Sunday night, where they weighed in on Mitt Romney’s renewed ambitions for the…
Here’s Proof The Best Things In Life Are Free
What if we told you that you were one of the wealthiest people in the world? Before you scratch your head and check your wallet, pause for a moment and…
When Doctors Told John Compton He Was Too Heavy For A Life-Saving Procedure, He Lost More Than 300 Pounds
Name: John Compton Age: 46 Height: 5’10” Before Weight: 487 pounds How I Gained It: I ate anything and everything. Nutritional values or portion control were never things I thought…
Why Some Women Are Giving Up Tampons For Good
Maryann Flasch, a 32-year-old office manager from Austin, Colorado, used to suffer from vaginal itching, dryness and infections when she got her period, which she attributed to using tampons and…
If You Upload Your Mind To A Computer — Are You Still You?
One of the most mind-bending far future predictions you’ll hear from some futurists is this: Eventually, the technology will exist to copy your brain (every bit of data that makes…
How To Work Out With A Friend Without Ruining Your Relationship
Many of us have that friend, the one who is always rushing off to the gym, heading out for a run, just getting home from yoga — and always inviting…