Y-Net: Iranian Defense Minister General Ahmad Vahidi said Israel would be attacked with 150,000 missiles if it launches any military action against the Islamic Republic, the Iran Independent News Service reported Sunday. Speaking before 50,000 army volunteers in Bushehr, the minister said “Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan, if the Americans make the mistake and [...]
The Blaze: The Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who was accidentally tackled by a 265-pound tight end during a Thanksgiving Day game has reportedly been forced off Twitter after taking to the micro-blogging site to write about the encounter. According to CNBC’s Darren Rovell, 22-year-old Melissa Kellerman was forced to delete her account Friday after posting two [...]
Politico: Eliot Spitzer’s career appears to be entering its third act. After a meteoric rise and fall — first in politics and then as a CNN host — the former New York governor has dusted himself off again and emerged as one of the earliest, loudest and clearest voices supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement. [...]
LATimes: In the still of a cold November evening, a small gathering of pagans, led by two witches, begins preparations for the coming winter solstice. But these are not just any pagans, and this is not just any setting. They are future officers of the United States Air Force practicing their faith in the basement [...]
@AP: BREAKING: Syracuse University fires assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine -CC WYSR: A third alleged victim has come forward, accusing Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of sexual molestation. Zach Tomaselli contacted NewsChannel 9. The 23-year-old currently lives in Maine and told us by e-mail that he was molested by Fine in 2002 and that [...]
Fox: The Orlando police department’s swat team raided a home Saturday night in the search for missing mother Michelle Parker, MyFoxOrlando.com reports. Property records show that the Orlando home is owned by Dale Smith Sr., who sources confirm is the father of Parker’s ex-fiancé, Dale Smith Jr. Police Search Home in Michelle Parker’s Disappearance: MyFoxORLANDO.com [...]
Washington Post: Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 [...]
(Daily Mail) — Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed. The emails — part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have [...]
AP: An American student arrested with two others during protests in Cairo said they were threatened with guns, hit and forced to lay for hours in a near fetal position in the dark with their hands behind their backs. “They said if we moved at all, even an inch, they would shoot us. They were [...]
Dallas Observer: A few minutes ago, Occupy Dallas posted to its Facebook page a note that two of its former members — which is to say, the group of protesters who split the camp before Dallas Police broke it up last week — were arrested for decorating the downtown Neiman Marcus with a little fake [...]
(Reuters) – Fury spread in Pakistan Sunday over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the U.S. effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan. Sunday night in Pakistan, more than 40 hours after the incident, many questions remained. NATO described the killings as a “tragic unintended incident” and [...]
French reporter Caroline Sinz told French news agency Agence France-Presse Thursday she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted while reporting on the massive street protests in Tahrir Square:
