(AP) 100K protesters flood Brazilian streets in protestBy BRADLEY BROOKSAssociated PressSAO PAULOSome of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil’s 1964-85 dictatorship have broken out across this continent-sized country, uniting tens of thousands frustrated by poor transportation, health services,
According to local news reports on Friday, several people have been wounded including a gunman at Santa Monica College, just a few miles from President Obama’s fundraiser in the city. Secret Service was notified, but the incident did not disturb
Former Miss Pennsylvania turned news anchor Nicole Brewer and meteorologist Carol Erickson share veiled insults quite often during the morning news broadcast on local news channel CBS 3 in Philadelphia. The two claim on Twitter they’re actually friends and their
Muslim leaders in South Africa have protested against President Barack Obama’s visit to that country in late June and early July, calling him “as morally bankrupt as any of his predecessors,” local news sources report. While South Africa’s Muslim community
The Commentator: Islamists yesterday attacked a group of kissing couples in a Turkish metro station, according to reports from the Daily Star Lebanon and local media outlets. The couples, who were taking part in a ‘kissing protest’ against a ‘morality
Photo gallery: scenes of destruction caused by a series of tornadoes which hit Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, May 19-20. Officials have estimated the body count from Monday’s storms, which primarily struck Moore, OK, at 51 people, and they expect
A Grand Prairie, TX public school counselor has been fired for allegedly posting a racist rant in celebration of the deaths and injuries suffered by residents of West, TX from a fertilizer plant explosion. The comment suggested the “whites” deserved
(AFP) A gunman shot and wounded a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in an eruption of shots at the prestigious university late Thursday, Boston television stations reported. The university warned students in an emergency alert to stay indoors and
In an interview Dr. Gosnell gave three years ago he claimed he would be vindicated and that the fact that he was a “good person” would prevail. When the DEA and FBI raided Dr. Gosnell’s abortion clinic in early 2010,
James Schiliro, mayor of Marcus Hook, PA, faces criminal charges for a late-March arrest where he was accused of firing a gun in proximity to a young man who would not have sex with him. Local news station FOX 29
(AP) Earthquake shakes Mexico CityMEXICO CITYEarthquakes shook a broad swath of southern Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital and sending thousands fleeing into the streets as an earthquake alarm sounded. But there were no immediate reports
A new study shows how the brain is able to hone in on the speaker it wants to hear in a noisy environment, like a cocktail party. From NBC News (via Instapundit): Studying the infamous “cocktail party problem,” researchers found that
Two women were saved from mortal danger through quick thinking and the use of firearms this past week. A Myrtle Beach woman was accosted in The Bagel Factory’s parking lot Friday morning. A man opened her car door, demanded her
A new report reveals that there were 3 million political ads related to the congressional and presidential campaigns for a total cost of almost $2 billion dollars in 2012. The study also found that although both President Barack Obama andRepublican presidential
Flight records obtained by Breitbart News show Democratic Party donor Dr. Salomon Melgen’s private jet was in New Jersey near Sen. Bob Menendez’s home on April 8, 2012–Easter Sunday last year. From there, it flew straight to the Dominican Republic.
Chris Kyle, former Navy SEAL and author of the New York Times bestseller American Sniper, was one of two victims killed in a shooting at a Texas gun range Saturday. According to a local news station, police have arrested a
(AP) Police up death toll to 245 in Brazil club fireBRASILIA, Brazil A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said. Police
The touted security at the Presidential Inaugural didn’t keep 80-100 masked Black Bloc anarchists from marching on the streets of nation’s capital and smashing windows without a single arrest Sunday night. Police showed up at the “Black Bloc Inaugural” and
Newly elected Senator Elizabeth Warren told local news that the middle class cannot be defined by a dollar amount. Senator Warren kept giving hypotheticals to the local reporter and the reporter politely responded, “It sounds like a dodge, Senator Warren.”
(AP) – He was an honors student who lived in a prosperous neighborhood with his mother, a grade-school teacher who liked to host dice games and decorate the house for the holidays. Now Adam Lanza is suspected of killing his
With Michigan teachers unions outraged over the state’s new right-to-work law that allows teachers to work without joining the union, the state’s current teachers are preparing to close down schools in protest. To recap: unions are bankrupting Michigan schools and
A new iPhone app released Thursday by fiscal conservative group Public Notice aims to put wasteful spending in the spotlight, just as debate surrounding the fiscal cliff heats up. According to a release, the app “geographically targets users’ newsfeeds to
Rhode Island boasts the second-highest cigarette tax in the nation, but following a recent increase in the rate, it seems that the high levy may be creating more problems than it solves. Already a target for smugglers illicitly selling untaxed
Oh, the Activist Old Media finds many ways to blast people over the head with bias, but this common trick is much more subtle. The networks send stories from the Mother Ship to their affiliates and you watch them on
According to local news, Denver gun shops are reporting an escalating number of gun buys and safety courses after this weekend’s Wisconsin shooting at the Sikh temple and the Colorado theater massacre a few weeks ago. Applications for conceal and
For months the Chicago Tribune has been suffering the slings and arrows of local critics for having hired a web-based company called Journatic (pronounced Jer-naa-tik) to write many of its small, “hyper local” stories for its Trib Local newspapers. Critics
A new report out of Pivotal Research Group investment analysts indicates that broadcasting giant CBS could be set to make $1 billion per year in retransmission fees, aided by a pro-broadcaster Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and a highly regulated TV marketplace regime that
A local news station investigates how a Baltimore teen, Majid Khan, turned into a cold-blooded terrorist. Related: WJZ Baltimore
CARSON CITY, Nev. – Is teacher tenure a “human right”? That’s what the head of the Nevada State Education Association seemed to suggest in a television interview last weekend. Appearing on a local news show, NSEA President Lynn Warne said the Silver State’s new education reforms
Daria Novak, a Tea Party candidate for the 2nd congressional district inConnecticut, had her blogging privileges at Patch rescinded Wednesday: The AOL-owned local news site, Patch, announced late Wednesdaythat it had suspended Novak from blogging in its “Local Voices” sectionafter
A local news agency found a man who claimed to have signed at least 80 petitions in an effort to recall Scott Walker. The Democrat party spokesman said that any of those who have signed multiple petitions are probably “mentally
It might have been just some local government scandal: A shuttered public school sold in a no-bid contract to a private buyer after officials told other interested buyers the building was not up for sale; residents up in arms and
Stop us if you’ve heard this movie synopsis before. A crooked L.A. cop is his own worst enemy, treating suspects like convicted criminals and drinking himself into a near-daily stupor. Oh, and he stumbles from one woman’s bed to the
MSNBC: Justin Timberlake kept his promise — and so did his “Friends with Benefits” co-star, Mila Kunis. Kunis accompanied Sgt. Scott Moore to the Marine Corps Ball on Friday night in Greenville, N.C., according to several local news reports in
As news of the congressional insider trading scandal filters back to congressional districts, local news outlets are beginning their own investigations. Here in a report from Tyler, TX, a law professor contends that there are enough existing laws on the
A city commissioner says she wouldn’t feel safe at the protest site. A local news reporter says the same. Yet, the mayor missed today’s city meeting because he wasn’t feeling well. All the while, people in Portland are asking: “When
For the past few weeks, a small group of rag-tag occupiers have set up a shanty town in Keiner Plaza, the site of many St. Louis Tea Party rallies. They have done so without a permit and without insurance —
Hmm. Right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart and his associates have helped lead the charge against Occupy Oakland, highlighting unflattering local news reports to cast the occupation as a “rat-infested squalor with complaints of vandalism, public urination, sexual harassment, and sex in
A woman who attended Occupy Cleveland last Saturday is now saying she was raped by a man she shared a tent with. Police are investigating the allegation, but in the meantime the local NBC station has produced this outrageous report
Junk science has exploded thanks to the Internet. It’s easier than ever to strike fear in the hearts of consumers by using words like “toxic” or worse, “cancer” in association with a given product. Some of you may remember the