Boston bombing suspect still in serious condition
After his arrest on Friday night, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains in serious condition at a Boston hospital, the same hospital as some of the victims of the bombings at the Boston...
View ArticleWatertown police chief gives play-by-play account of Friday manhunt
In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Saturday, Watertown Police Chief Ed Deveau provided a detailed account of the manhunt that resulted in the death of one of the Boston Marathon bombing...
View ArticleUS to give $123 million military aid package to Syrian rebels
The US$123 million defense aid package, announced by Kerry at the meeting in the Turkish capital on Sunday, includes body armor, armored vehicles, advanced communication equipment and night vision...
View ArticleNew York lawmaker: I would torture an American citizen
New York state Sen. Greg Ball (R) on Monday night reiterated his belief that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tortured even though he is a U.S. citizen. During a tense interview,...
View ArticleJon Stewart mocks CNN’s new ‘responsible’ reporting on Boston bombing
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart beat up one of his favorite punching bags on Monday night, the 24-hour news network CNN. Last week, CNN humiliated itself after falsely claiming the FBI was arresting a...
View ArticleMaddow details Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s bedside court hearing
At the top of Monday night’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow described the remarkable scene that unfolded on Monday in the hospital room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston bombing...
View ArticleJon Stewart castigates Congress for loosening insider trading law
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Shot host Jon Stewart ripped Congress for weakening a recently approved law that subjected lawmakers to the same insider trading laws as every other American....
View ArticleNorth Carolina Democratic strategist dies after knife attack in her home
A 29-year-old Democratic strategist died early Wednesday morning from injuries suffered in a brutal stabbing in her Raleigh, North Carolina home. According to the Raleigh News-Observer, Jamie Kirk Hahn...
View ArticleWhat really happened to Sunil Tripathi?
Of all the ways in which last week's horror in Boston showed the resilience and cooperation of a community in the wake of disaster, the tragedy will also inevitably go down as a shining example of the...
View ArticleTwo massive explosions rock Mobile, Alabama
Fire and emergency crews rushed to the scene Wednesday night and no injuries have yet been reported.DETAILS TO FOLLOW … Read More
View ArticleJon Stewart destroys Fox News for jettisoning the Bill of Rights after Boston...
On his show Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart illustrated how Fox News personalities feigned love of the U.S. Constitution, but quickly abandoned it when it conflicted with their...
View ArticleDaily Report: Yahoo Buys Rights to ‘Saturday Night Live’ Archive
Yahoo announced that it had acquired the exclusive rights to classic clips of "Saturday Night Live" from 1975 through 2012, Brian Stelter reports in The New York Times. … Read More
View ArticleSwedish cops find drugs on Justin Bieber tour bus
Swedish police raided Justin Bieber's tour bus after officers reported a "suspicious" odor when the pop star boarded the vehicle ahead of his concert in Stockholm on Wednesday night. … Read More
View ArticleMaddow slams right-wing mainstreaming of crackpots like Alex Jones
Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow chided the right for giving credence to the crackpot conspiracy theories of Alex Jones and bringing the most extreme fringe...
View ArticleNew LED streetlamp design could virtually eliminate light pollution
Researchers from Mexico and Taiwan have co-developed a new design for streetlamps that will greatly reduce the amount of light pollution they emit. Existing solutions waste as much as 20 percent of...
View ArticleBody pulled from Providence River positively identified as missing Brown...
The Rhode Island Health Department confirmed this morning that the body pulled out of the Providence River at India Point Park on Tuesday night is that of missing Brown University student Sunil...
View ArticleFacebook helps solve 45-year-old murder
Some wounds never heal – even after 45 years.That's what the family of Carolee Sadie Ashby is finding out after her 1968 hit-and-run death was solved with the help of a Facebook post. Now, the family...
View ArticleFox guest Michelle Malkin links Grover Norquist to Boston Marathon bombing
During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin alleged that influential anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was indirectly linked to the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleChris Hayes explains how Dick Cheney’s son-in-law deregulated chemical plants
MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Thursday night explained the key role Dick Cheney’s son-in-law played in keeping chemical plants free of regulations. Concerns were raised in 2002 that chemical plants in...
View ArticleJon Stewart: Bush Library the Hard Rock Cafe of catastrophic policy decisions
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart gleefully mocked former President George W. Bush’s new library. Noting the facility contained more than 43,000 artifacts from Bush’s...
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