Google petitions for further transparency with national security requests

With the recent uproar with The National Security Agency and PRISM, many tech companies have come forward to deny any claims that they give the government user information without the users knowing, and to prove that, companies are now wanting to publicly post national security requests for full transparency....

slashgear.com (8 minutes ago)

Amanda Saunders: Steer Clear of Tourist Traps

Summer is here, school is out, and if you're like a lot of families, that means a road trip or a short flight to the beach. But admit it; you've been sucked into those tourist traps before while on those last minute vacations. The ones with the flashy signs and overpriced admission fees, where all you end up walking...

huffingtonpost.com (15 minutes ago)

CPS Teacher: Despite Blogger's Claims, I'm Not A Racist Gay Porn Star

Story by Adeshina Emmanuel, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: UPTOWN - A Chicago Public Schools teacher is considering legal action and pushing back against a local conservative blogger who accused him of being a racist stripper with a porno past. Kevin DuJan, the same conservative blogger who speculated that President...

huffingtonpost.com (30 minutes ago)

Bruce Kushnick: Verizon's Wireless 'Voice Link' as a Replacement of the Wires? The Downgrading...

Imagine waking up after a storm and your wired phone line is dead. You've kept it because the cell phone service isn't reliable or sounds like you are under water. Maybe you really wanted something more reliable in case of an emergency. You check and the burglar alarm isn't working either. You go to your home office...

huffingtonpost.com (31 minutes ago)

Flood insurance claims in R.I. hit $31 million from Sandy

Nearly all of the property damage claims from superstorm Sandy submitted by Rhode Islanders to the National Flood Insurance Program have been processed, resulting in payments totaling $31.1 million. That was the tally in mid-May when the federal program conducted its final monthly survey on the status of Sandy...

providencejournal.com (33 minutes ago)

Michael D'Antonio: Confronting the Vatican on the Rights of Children

This week in Geneva, the United Nation's Committee on the Rights of the Child is hearing closed-door testimony about official Catholicism's compliance with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of almost 200 signatories to the convention, the Holy See (the formal name of the Vatican state) is fifteen...

huffingtonpost.com (36 minutes ago)

Vladimir Putin may allow Assad to go if power vacuum in Syria is avoided

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to see the removal of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, but only if it leads to a balanced government and not a dangerous power vacuum of the kind that followed Saddam Hussein's removal in Iraq, British officials believe after two days of intensive talks at the G8...

guardian.co.uk (38 minutes ago)

Stuntwoman sues News Corp. over alleged phone hack

A woman who worked as a stunt double for Angelina Jolie sued Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in Los Angeles on Tuesday, claiming she's a victim of a phone hacking scheme to obtain information about the actress. Eunice Huthart, of Liverpool, England, is the first person to sue the media company in the U.S. Her New York...

foxnews.com (38 minutes ago)

Prostitution trial against Ribéry and Benzema is adjourned until 2014

The trial of the French footballers Franck Ribéry and Karim Benzema over claims they paid for sex with an underage call girl has been adjourned for procedural reasons until 2014. Benzema, a Real Madrid striker, and Ribéry, a Bayern Munich winger, are to be tried on charges of paying Zahia Dehar, a prostitute, for...

guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)

British woman 'raped in Moscow nightclub run by bikers' group'

Russian police are investigating a British woman's claims that she was raped in a Moscow nightclub founded by the Night Wolves, the bikers' group that has strong ties to President Vladimir Putin.    

telegraph.co.uk (1 hour ago)

Anti-pervert hairy stockings protect women from perverts, viral post claims

Fashion trends come and go, and not every look is either practical or meant for everyone. Take these anti-pervert hairy stockings, for example. As chinaSMACK reported on June 17, they are being posed as a solution for Chinese women...

examiner.com (1 hour ago)

STORM'S A-BREWIN': WABC weatherman Bill Evans, wife in court — separately — after huge fight...

It was a dark and stormy fight - over a set of car keys. WABC-TV weatherman Bill Evans claims he was left with a bruised backside and a clawed crotch after a nasty scuffle with his wife as hard feelings escalated in their ugly divorce.    

nydailynews.com (1 hour ago)

Huawei unveils Ascent P6, claimed to be the world's thinnest phone

Huawei rolled out a smartphone Tuesday that it claims is the thinnest smartphone in the world.    

latimes.com (1 hour ago)

UK politician reportedly claims to have fathered an alien

foxnews.com (1 hour ago)

Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema face jail over underage prostitute claims

The French football stars deny the allegations and former call girl, Zahia Dehar, says neither knew she was under 18 at the time

mirror.co.uk (1 hour ago)

Boston's One Fund nears $55M with more than 250 claims

Compensation will be distributed to victims of Boston Marathon bombings by end of June

cbsnews.com (1 hour ago)

Penny Stock Trader Timothy Sykes Stars Made His Own Parody Of 'Boiler Room'

Thirty-one year-old penny stock trader Timothy Sykes spoofed Ben Affleck's famous speech from "Boiler Room" in a YouTube video promoting his trading education company. Here's Sykes' version: "I'm a millionaire.  It's weird, right? I'll tell ya, it's a weird thing to say. I'm a f------g millionaire!...I made my first...

businessinsider.com (1 hour ago)

Flo Rida's manager claims Gregg Popovich banned him from the Finals

Free Freezy.

usatoday.com (1 hour ago)

Nigel Farage forced to cancel Aberdeen lunch due to protest fears, Ukip claims

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has been forced to scrap half his itinerary on a trip to Scotland less than a month after he had to take refuge in a pub after being heckled and abused by demonstrators in Edinburgh. Farage had endured a torrid half-hour of abuse and heckling from pro-independence and anti-racist...

guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)

NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled

WASHINGTON - The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing on intelligence - a set-piece for supporters of the snooping. The House...

sltrib.com (1 hour ago)

Women take 3 minutes to like a man?

While an international study claims that women take only three minutes to decide whether she likes a man or not, women on the other hand definitely don’t think so    

indiatimes.com (2 hours ago)

New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage

Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new book.

independent.co.uk (2 hours ago)

One glass is OK for pregnant women

Pregnant women can drink up to one glass of wine a day without harming their child’s neurodevelopment, a new British study claims.    

nydailynews.com (2 hours ago)

Super PAC backing Gomez launches new website today

A super PAC backing Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is launching a new website today slamming U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey as a long time Washington insider as the two men prepare to face off in their final debate. The website, called 37years.com, was created by the Americans for Progressive Action PAC,...

bostonherald.com (2 hours ago)

Labour politician admits an affair... with an ALIEN! Father-of-three talks of his belief in...

Married father-of-three Simon Parkes, who represents Stakesby on Whitby Town Council, said his wife had rowed with him after revealing he had a child called Zarka with an alien he refers to as the Cat Queen.

dailymail.co.uk (2 hours ago)

Weatherman Bill Evans, Dana Evans in court after huge fight amidst divorce

It was a dark and stormy fight - over a set of car keys. WABC-TV weatherman Bill Evans claims he was left with a bruised backside and a clawed crotch after a nasty scuffle with his wife as hard feelings escalated in their ugly divorce.    

nydailynews.com (2 hours ago)

Ellinas Claims Cypriot First With Marussia F1 Team

Eftihios 'Tio' Ellinas completed a straight-line test for Marussia on Tuesday and claimed a footnote in motorsport history as the first Cypriot to drive a Formula One car.    

nytimes.com (2 hours ago)

Ex-Gladiators Star Sues Over 'Phone Hacking'

Eunice Huthart claims her messages were hacked to get information while she worked as Angelina Jolie's stunt double.

sky.com (2 hours ago)

Romanian pop star claims manager beat her up

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanian prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a popular singer's claim that she was beaten up by her manager-boyfriend after a dispute over money, prompting a rare debate about domestic violence in this conservative East European nation. Alexandra Stan, whose 2010 hit "Mr. Saxobeat"...

bostonherald.com (2 hours ago)

Romanian singer Alexandra Stan claims manager-boyfriend beat her up

Romanian prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating a popular singer's claim that she was beaten up by her manager-boyfriend after a dispute over money, prompting a rare debate about domestic violence in this conservative East European nation.    

nydailynews.com (2 hours ago)