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DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A concussion kept Jamie Kuntz from suiting up for his first college football game. A kiss from his much-older boyfriend at that game led the freshman linebacker to be kicked off the team, he said. North Dakota State College of Sciences in Wahpeton acknowledges Kuntz was disciplined by the team, but […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned attacks on a U.S. consulate in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three American members of his staff. He ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts around the world. In a White House statement, Obama said he had ordered "all necessary resources to support […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday. They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday the United States would "work with the Libyan government to bring to justice" those who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi. "Make no mistake. Justice will be done," he said in a Rose Garden appearance at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here's something most politicians can "like": Facebook friends played a big role in getting hundreds of thousands of people to vote in 2010, a new scientific study claims. Facebook researchers and scientists at the University of California, San Diego conducted a massive online experiment in the mid-term congressional election to test and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks Tuesday in familiar but subdued ceremonies that put grieving families ahead of politicians and suggested it's time to move on after a decade of remembrance. As in past years, thousands gathered at the World Trade Center site in New […]
Fox News will air a correction for a misleading graphic that ran on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends.” Liberal watchdog group Media Matters discovered the errors in the graphic displaying the unemployment rates during President Barack Obama’s term. The graphic tried to compare the official unemployment figure in 2009 to the “real” 2012 unemployment figure. However, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — For decades, Southerners put a firm imprint on national politics from both sides of the aisle, holding the White House for 25 of the past 50 years and producing a legion of Capitol Hill giants during the 20th century. But that kind of obvious power has waned as Democrats and Republicans in […]
A woman claims she was banned from boarding her flight after a Transportation Security Administration agent said she had a bad attitude. The woman said she was confronted by the agent after being cleared by TSA security at a Houston airport. She posted a 22-second video of the confrontation on YouTube entitled “AirportVideoofTSA." The woman […]
A Canadian dance studio is now offering pole dancing; not for mommy, but for kids. Duncan's Twisted Grip Dance and Fitness Studio in Vancouver welcomes children as young as five-years-old to enroll in their new pole dancing course. Kristy Craig, the studio’s owner finds no problem with getting the kids to take a spin. "There […]
The U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) reportedly decided not to fund 16-year-old tennis-playing phenom Taylor Townsend’s U.S. Open Juniors trip because they reportedly think she is too heavy, according to Diets In Review. Apparently, the awe-inspiring talents of the young teen — who is the No. 1 ranked girls junior and won the Australian Open juniors tournament — […]
WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A former auto executive suspected of gunning down an officer who responded to a trouble call in an affluent Detroit suburb was found dead inside his house Monday evening, police said. Police had been surrounding the home of Rickey Coley since Sunday night, when an officer was shot to […]
