Much has been made over the years about some of the shady characters Hillary Clinton associates herself with. And now, Clinton’s campaign manager and longtime confidante Huma Abedin is getting fresh scrutiny that is raising plenty of eyebrows. Abedin is Clinton’s right-hand pal, first working as a White House intern… Read More
Feds want to ban swimming with dolphins
Federal regulators are proposing to ban swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, a move that could imperil one of the Aloha State’s most popular tourist activities and the industry that has sprung up around it. The National Marine Fisheries Service says spinner dolphins — the playful nocturnal species that humans in… Read More
Couple stage their own funeral … while still alive
A childless Bosnian couple have staged and attended their own funeral saying they wanted it to be an opportunity to celebrate life with friends and family. Dragan Maric, 61, and his 65-year-old wife Dragica had sent invites to their pretend funeral and some 200 people turned up. During the ceremony… Read More
Dunces? Tests reveal high schoolers unready for college
Nearly two-thirds of this year’s high school graduates took the ACT college entrance exam, and their scores suggest that many remain unprepared for the rigors of college-level coursework. The testing company said Wednesday that only 38 percent of graduating seniors who took the exam hit the college-prepared benchmark in at… Read More
Trump softening immigration stance?
Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to “softening” laws dealing with immigrants in the country illegally, the latest sign that the Republican presidential nominee is considering easing the hardline stance he has taken since the beginning of his campaign. Trump, taping a town hall in Austin, Texas, for… Read More
Baseball player smashes own windshield with homerun blast
A minor league baseball player in southern Illinois hit a grand slam homerun only to find the ball smashed the windshield of his own truck. The Gateway Grizzlies of Sauget (SAW-zhay), Illinois, say Brandon Thomas hit the homer during Sunday’s game against the Joliet Slammers. The 25-year-old outfielder sent the ball… Read More
NATO member makes bold move in Syria conflict
After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help clear a border town of Islamic State militants, marking the NATO member’s most significant military involvement so far in the Syria conflict. Hundreds of Syrian opposition fighters were also… Read More
This town has gone to the dogs – literally!
The four-legged mayor of a northwestern Minnesota village greets voters like a true politician. Duke, a 9-year-old Great Pyrenees, won a third one-year term as honorary mayor of Cormorant Township on Saturday. The big, shaggy white dog was overwhelmingly re-elected at the sixth annual Cormorant Daze Festival. Anyone could pay… Read More
Again!? FBI investigates new Russian hacking attack
The FBI is investigating attempted cyber intrusions targeting reporters of The New York Times and is looking into whether Russian intelligence agencies are responsible for the acts, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The Times reported Tuesday evening that the attempted cyberattack targeted the newspaper’s Moscow bureau, and that there was… Read More
Recordings reveal horror of Florida face-eating murders
Florida sheriff’s deputies confronted chaos as they tried to subdue an attacker biting a victim’s face after stabbing and beating a couple to death in a random assault outside their home, recordings of radio transmissions released Tuesday show. When a dispatcher asks the first Martin County deputy on the scene… Read More