New bill proposes women must view ultrasound before undergoing abortion

Women who are in their first trimesters now have to view an ultrasound before they have an abortion.

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International Fugitive Faces Arraignment Today in a Houston Court

Jessica Tata will be arriagned today at 1:30 pm at the 180th court. She is facing charges of child endangerment, abandonment, and fleeing the country to avoid prosecution.

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Obama Calls for an Economic Cure for Illegal Immigration

SAN SALVADOR — President Obama ended his three-nation Latin American tour on Tuesday with a visit to El Salvador, a source of one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States, and agreed with its president that "the best strategy" for curbing illegal immigration was …

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Women Seeking abortion in South Dakota to get Anti-Abortion Advice

The sign out front advertises free pregnancy tests, information about abortion and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.

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Glen Beck Contemplates Starting His Own Channel

The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him?

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Detroit Census Confims a Desertion Like No Other

Laying bare the country's most startling example of modern urban collapse, census data on Tuesday showed that Detroit's population had plunged by 25 percent over the last decade.

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The Right To Sue over Wiretapping

Federal authorities have always made it difficult to bring a legal challenge against the government's warrantless wiretapping enterprise that was set up by the Bush administration in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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First Full Face Transplant in the U.S.

For the first time in the U.S. a man has received a full face transplant. It took a team of thirty doctors, nurses, and anesthesiologists fifteen hours to complete the transformation.

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Google Rumors, Hearsay, Speculation....and maybe Truth?

Well, are they or aren't they?

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Archaeologists Find First Icons of Sts. Peter and Paul

ROME (June 22) - Twenty-first century laser technology has opened a window into the early days of the Catholic Church, guiding researchers through the dank, musty catacombs beneath Rome to a startling find: the first known icons of the apostles Peter and Paul.

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Gay Workers Will Now Get Time to Care for Partner's Sick Child

WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon expand the rights of gay workers by allowing them to take family and medical leave to care for sick or newborn children of same-sex partners, administration officials said Monday.

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What Would You Do if You saw a Woman Being Abused? Would it Matter if She Was a Prostitute?

New York What would you do if you saw a woman being abused by her boyfriend? That was the question posed by a recent episode of ABC's candid camera social experiment show, "What Would You Do?"

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Feministing: 3 Ways Women Hurt Other Women, 3 Ways to Stop!

At 92Y Tribeca the other day, I heard Susan Shapiro Barash, author ofTripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry, talk about the ways in which women hold each other down instead of raising each other up. Following are three:

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Eat Brown Rice to Cut Diabetes Risk

Next time you order takeout wonton soup and a spicy Number 82, you might want to make sure it comes with brown rice.

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$300 Million for Agent Orange Fund

Action plan addresses toxic legacy of Vietnam War

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No Fault Divorce -- Welcome, NY.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is more often the wife than the husband who is ready to leave. Approximately two-thirds of divorces — including those that come late in life — are initiated by wives.

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Russia Bans "BUSH LEGS"

Russian nickname for American chicken products.

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Candidates for Oxford's Poetry Professor Attack Each other with What Else? -- Poetry!

I love this article...reminds me of how poetry has been used for spite, laughs, etc.

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Wordl Cup 2010: Police arrest two women over Ambush Marketing

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Driving while Black, Flying While Arab, Walking While Latino.

"Driving while Black. Flying while Arab. Walking while Latino (in Arizona). Not everyone has to worry about raising "reasonable suspicion" in all these settings.

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Like Glenn Beck, Ayn Rand peddled Garbage as Truth--WHy Did America Buy it?

St. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too.

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The Pain of FauxFeminist Populism

"I feel your pain — how many times are we going to hear that between now and the midterm elections? Republicans and Democrats all know that the economy weighs first on people's minds, and they all pay lip service at least to the idea of doing something for Main Street.

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Don't Buy in Bulk! Busting Down the Myths of Bargain Shopping and Coupon Clipping

It's true--I wait for sales at the Local CVS, Kroger, and Walgreens and get things ridiculously cheap (plus I use online coupons and manufacturerc coupons.) Going to Sam's, on the other hand, is saved for buying milk, egg, and cheese, which is about cheapest there...

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YEARS of Internal BP Probes Warned that Neglect could lead to Accidents

The confidential inquiries, which have not previously been made public, focused on a rash of problems at BP's Alaska oil-drilling unit that undermined the company's publicly proclaimed commitment to safe operations.

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Rihanna Airbrushed? You can't be SERIOUS...

I mean, the girl weighs 110 pounds max?

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