The current version of the SAT college entrance exam has its final run this weekend, when hundreds of thousands of students nationwide will sit, squirm or stress through the nearly four-hour reading, writing and math test. A new revamped version debuts in March. Sixteen-year-old Alex Cohen, a junior at the… Read More
Wal-Mart to give pay raises to most employees
Most of Wal-Mart’s U.S. employees will get raises as part of the world’s largest retailer’s previously announced commitment to invest in its workforce. Wal-Mart, which announced in October that it would invest $2.7 billion in its workforce over two years, said more than 1.2 million U.S. hourly workers will receive… Read More
World War II veteran to reunite with wartime girlfriend
A World War II veteran will travel to Australia to reunite with his wartime girlfriend after more than 70 years apart. Norwood Thomas, 93, of Virginia Beach will travel to Adelaide, Australia, next month to reunite with 88-year-old Joyce Morris, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Thomas told Morris that he would love to… Read More
Scientists find evidence our solar system has a secret ninth planet – Planet X!
The solar system may have a ninth planet after all. This one is 5,000 times bigger than outcast Pluto and billions of miles farther away, say scientists who presented “good evidence” for a long-hypothesized Planet X on Wednesday. The gas giant is thought to be almost as big as its… Read More
Mr. Obama’s wild ride – Dow plummets, recovers
Another day of carnage on Wall Street. The Dow average lost 565. Then, suddenly, U.S. stocks recovered much of an early plunge as speculators started buying up cheap stocks. The entire market wasn’t so fortunate. The price of oil suffered its worst one-day drop since September. Energy companies were pummeled… Read More
New Hampshire humiliation! Hillary to lose BIG
In 2008, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic presidential caucus in Iowa to then-Senator Barack Obama. But many political observers believe it was the huge loss to Obama in New Hampshire when the wheels really flew off Clinton’s campaign. And if a new poll is to be believed, Clinton… Read More
Muslim thugs destroy Christian holy ground
The war against Christianity has suffered another casualty in the Middle East. Satellite photos have officially confirmed what many Christian leaders and preservationists had feared: One of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, located in Iraq, has been reduced to a field of rubble by ISIS thugs. St. Elijah’s Monastery… Read More
GOP scrambling as Palin endorses Trump
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump picked up what may be his most significant endorsement to date, with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announcing yesterday that was backing his campaign. But while an endorsement from Palin, who served as the vice presidential candidate on Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential run, is… Read More
Demolition begins on Pablo Escobar’s Miami mansion (pics)
A vestige of the drug wars that made Miami notorious for violence and smuggling in the 1980s is being razed, with its new owners anxiously sifting through the wreckage for any last traces of the reign of Pablo Escobar. Demolition began Tuesday on a pink waterfront mansion in Miami Beach… Read More
Stephen Hawking: New technologies a threat to humanity
Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that new technologies will likely bring about “new ways things can go wrong” for human survival. When asked how the world will end — “naturally” or whether man would destroy it first — Hawking said that increasingly, most of the threats humanity faces come from… Read More