When a rockslide closed a major Colorado highway, officials created an alternate route -- on which a woman was killed by a falling rock today. Moral of the story: Don't leave your house! Ever again!
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India's upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.
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Facing razor-thin margins in the House, Democratic leaders are hoping to convert the sole liberal who opposes their health care bill, but it seems they have their work cut out because he isn't budging.
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When Sarah Palin wrote a few notes on her hand during her speech to a tea party convention last month, she was widely ridiculed by bloggers, comedians and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. This weekend, she defended the notes at an Ohio pro-life fund-raiser, saying she was in good company.
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Unemployed? If you're looking for something to get you out of the house, the Census Bureau will be adding 700,000 people during the spring and summer.
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Kevin Wray needs to brush up on his conflict management skills. Pissed that parents use his yard as a turnabout when dropping their kids off at a bus stop in front of his house, Wray decided the appropriate response was to pull out his 12-gauge on a father and his son.
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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says that Sen. Jim Bunning was "brave" for blocking an extension in unemployment benefits. DeLay subscribes to the notion that people only try to find jobs when their benefits run out. "There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits, keep people from going and finding jobs...
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You could spend this Sunday night debating the potential ramifications of House Foreign Affairs Committee's movement to call the murder of ethnic Armenians in 1915 Turkey "genocide" on American-Turkish relations. You could. Or you could buy some champagne, flip on the Oscars, and get crunk.
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Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has unsurprisingly gone full Tea Partier on us. "My parents think I've gone crazy / Only Glenn Beck really understands me / And of course Sean Hannity and Huckabee ... there's no one else who can see the Communist living in the the White House."
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Hoppa the dog was born four years ago without his two front two legs. He was lucky enough to be adopted by Avi Kozi, chairman of Israel's Society for the Protection of Animals. "From the moment I took him to my house, I knew I had to build something that would help him to move." Kozi said.
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Awww...the White House releases new photos of the First Dog, who has been living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for nearly a year.
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In a razor thing vote of 23-22, the US House House Foreign Affairs Committee formally recognized the genocide of ethnic Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago. Turkey recalled it's ambassador for consultation. The measure may be brought before the full House floor in a matter of weeks.
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Miami native and Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson has unsurprisingly gone full Tea Partier on us. "My parents think I've gone crazy / Only Glenn Beck really understands me / And of course Sean Hannity and Huckabee ... there's no one else who can see the Communist living in the the White House."
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a measure Thursday recommending that the United States recognize the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
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