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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House on Tuesday night provisionally approved tough new abortion restrictions, making good on a third attempt to pass the measure this year. Activists on both sides of the issue from across the state and nation descended on the Capitol building, and the demonstrators erupted into screams, cheers and chants […]
Mexicans are all about taking things away from Americans. First they take our low-level jobs, then they make tacos more popular than apple pie and…
ALBION, N.Y. (AP) — A Roman Catholic nun has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing nearly $130,000 from two western New York parishes to support a gambling addiction. Sister Mary Anne Rapp also was ordered at Monday’s sentencing to perform 100 hours of community service and repay $128,000. Rapp pleaded guilty to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — First, Anthony Weiner vaulted back from an embarrassing sexting scandal to become a top mayoral contender. Now, Eliot Spitzer has sprinted onto the comeback campaign trail in New York City, where this fall’s races are turning into a mini-Olympics of political redemption. So Weiner, just two years after a tweeted underwear […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes…
The 777 was fully engulfed in flames, closing all access to the airport and forcing all arriving flights to be diverted to Oakland International Airport.Read…
At least 100 women have been sexually assaulted in some way during protests in Cairo, Egypt’s Tahir Square, Jezebel reports. Human Rights Watch has found…
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
Spanish firefighters were forced to use a buzz saw to remove a 51-year-old man’s genitals from a steel sex toy. In order to cut through the metal ring that was stuck around the man’s testicles and penis, the firefighters used two rotating blades and had to undergo two battery changes in order to complete the […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade issued a YouTube video Monday night in which they thanked the public for the encouragement and financial support that is allowing them to restart their lives. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight broke their public silence in the 3-minute, 30-second […]
Jeff Johnson is telling everyone what they need to know about the voting rights act. Changing the voting rights act isn’t about losing the right…
Good grief. Is this a case of like father, like son? TMZ is reporting the son of NFL legend Lawrence Taylor has been arrested for rape in Georgia. Lawrence Taylor Jr. was arrested on July 7 on 3 counts — statutory rape aggravated child molestation, and statutory aggravated sodomy, according to the Cobb County Sheriff’s […]
