Jesse Ventura Slams Chris Kyle, Says He Won’t See ‘American Sniper’
“American Sniper” is tops at the box office but don’t expect to see former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura lining up at a theater for it. Ventura, a former Navy SEAL,…
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Colleen McCullough, Author Of ‘The Thorn Birds,’ Dead At 77
SYDNEY, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose 1977 best-selling novel The Thorn Birds became a smash hit television miniseries, has died at the age of 77. McCullough…
Surf, sand … and surgery? Inside the world of medical tourism
Or maybe you need to take a few sick days for a routine medical procedure, say getting a pacemaker replaced or doing a bit of cosmetic surgery ? Why not…
Dem Donors Plot Campaign Battle Against $889 Million Koch Behemoth
WASHINGTON — Reactions from Democrats to news that the billionaire Koch brothers are planning an $889 million blitz for the 2016 election has run the gambit from outright alarm to…
Snowden Files Reveal Canada Spy Agency CSE Tracks Millions Of Downloads A Day
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Canada’s electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analyzing data on up to 15 million file downloads a day as part of…
A better way for the Kochs to spend their millions
Here comes spendageddon! To influence the 2016 elections, oil barons Charles and David Koch have pledged that their political network will spend $889 million, media reports say. Basically — wrap…
Sly Stone Wins $5M In Lawsuit Against Ex-Manager After Period Of Homelessness
Legendary funk artist Sly Stone, who sued his former manager and an entertainment attorney, saying they diverted and misappropriated royalties owed him for more than 20 years, was awarded $5…
Dubai Claims Title Of World’s Busiest International Airport
The city with the world’s tallest building can now boast that it’s home to the world’s busiest airport for international passengers too. Dubai’s airport operator released figures Tuesday showing that…
The new world’s busiest international airport is …
In comparison, Heathrow reported around 68.1 million international passengers in 2014. “This historic milestone is the culmination of over five decades of double-digit average growth that were inspired by the…
Facebook profit soars 34% on the back of mobile ads
By 2020, Facebook wants to become a viable search business and connect hundreds of millions more people through Messenger and WhatsApp. Those services already have 500 million and 700 million…
Millions to owe Obamacare tax penalty
Some three-quarters of the nation’s 150 million taxpayers have health insurance through their jobs or government programs and will simply have to check a box on the Form 1040. Another…
The air pollution that’s choking Asia
Haze episodes have occurred in southeast Asia nearly every year since. Back in 1998, and for years afterwards, Tan didn’t think too deeply about them. Yet at some point in…
It’s Washington Beer vs. Massachusetts Beer In The Super Bowl Of Taste Tests
Beer and the Super Bowl go together better than Bill Belichick and controversy. Americans reportedly drink 50 million cases of beer the day of the big game — which translates…
HUFFPOST HILL – GOP Proudly Driving Department It Created Into The Ground
The guy who flew a drone onto the White House grounds was sloshed, making it the third most dangerous thing ever visited upon the White House by a drunk (the…
The iPhone Just Obliterated Sales Records
The iPhone 6 is Apple’s biggest phone ever in terms of screen size — and likely in terms of sales, too. Apple sold 74.5 million iPhones during the last three…
Obamacare Nears Major Goal With One Month To Go
More than 9.5 million people have signed up for private health insurance coverage this year using the Obamacare exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed Tuesday, putting the…
Intimate Portraits Pay Tribute To Auschwitz Survivors
On Jan. 27, 1945, soldiers of the Soviet army entered the gates of Auschwitz in southern Poland, liberating the largest and most notorious network of Nazi concentration camps. Just 7,000…
7 Reasons You’re Waking Up All Wrong
By Anna Medaris Miller for U.S. News Did you hit the snooze this morning? Reach for the coffee? Skip breakfast? If this were “How to Wake Up 101,” you’d fail….
Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fast Facts
It provides a back-up supply of crude oil if the commercial oil supply is disrupted. The crude oil is stored in underground salt caverns in a government complex along the…
Angelina Jolie: We’re ‘Failing’ Millions Of Refugees In Iraq, Syria
Angelina Jolie is demanding the world pay closer attention to the dire needs of displaced Iraqi and Syrian families. The actress visited a refugee camp near Dohuk, Iraq, on Sunday,…
This Is What New York City Of The Past Looked Like Blanketed In Snow
Yes, there’s a blizzard settling over 7 states and 29 million people. It’s expected to drop up to three feet of snow over parts of the Northeast, and residents are…
Police Urge Google To Turn Off Waze App’s Cop-Tracking Feature
Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby. They say one of the technology…
Use The Whole Vegetable: Waste Less, Discover Recipes You Never Knew Existed
Food waste is a huge problem, and that’s an understatement. According to World Bank estimates, up to one third of the food produced worldwide is thrown away. The proportions get…
Debbie Reynolds gets SAG life award, daughter Carrie Fisher gets best lines
“Four-and-a-half million (dollars) is allocated just for me,” Fisher joked. – “Thank you, George,” Reynolds said in an acknowledgment of “Star Wars” creator George Lucas.
John Boehner Reveals How He Survives The State Of The Union
How to behave when 30 million Americans give your political nemesis their undivided attention in a televised speech and your job is to sit quietly behind him? House Speaker John…
‘American Sniper’ Dominates The Weekend Box Office Again
“American Sniper” hit the mark with moviegoers again. The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a…
ISIS demanding release of convicted terrorist to save Japanese hostage
A video file posted online Saturday by a known ISIS supporter shows an image of one hostage, Kenji Goto, holding a photo of what appears to be the corpse of…
What hostage crisis means for Japan
The scene is like something from a horror movie. Saturday, a known supporter of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria posted a video online of one of two Japanese…
Image on Video Purports to Show Decapitated Body of Japanese Hostage of ISIS
TOKYO — The Japanese government expressed outrage at an image released Saturday that purported to show the decapitated body of one of two Japanese hostages captured by Islamic State militants…
Northeast gets a sloshy taste of winter
For large swaths of the Northeast, Saturday arrived with a messy mix of sleet, snow and rainwith parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey receiving up to 8 inches of snow…