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• Eric Garcetti Wins 2013 LA Mayoral Election, Wendy Greuel Concedes
  Eric Garcetti will be Los Angeles' next mayor.By 3 a.m. Wednesday, with 100 percent of the votes counted, Garcetti had received 54 percent of the vote, making him L.A.'s first elected Jewish mayor. Opponent Wendy Greuel, who received 46 percent of the vote, called Garcetti to concede shortly before 2 a.m., LA Weekly reporter Gene Maddaus and Los An […]
• Payroll Tax Poll Finds Many Americans Feel Tax Hike Effects
  A majority of working Americans are noticing smaller paychecks after the payroll tax cut expired this year, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll -- and a majority of those specifically cited the payroll tax as the culprit.According to the new survey, 56 percent of Americans who said that they work for pay have noticed the taxes withheld from their paychec […]
• Assisted Suicide Legalization Supported By Half Of Americans, Poll Says
  Vermont this week became the fourth U.S. state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, and a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that a measure similar to the Vermont legislation would see more support than opposition from the American public.According to the poll, 50 percent of Americans say they think it should be legal for a doctor to […]
• China Knife Attack: Mentally Ill Man Stabs 6 Students And Adult, Police Say
  BEIJING — A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday.All seven victims were in stable condition and a suspect was apprehended, according to a spokeswoman from the Maoming city government in the southern province of Guangdong who, […]
• Juan Mendez Invokes Carl Sagan While Leading Arizona House Of Representatives Pre-Session Prayer
  Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez (D) turned a Tuesday afternoon prayer into something much more.The Phoenix New Times reports that Mendez, who is an atheist, changed the course of the event held prior to the House of Representatives' afternoon session. He asked lawmakers to refrain from bowing their heads and instead to view their surroundings."Most […]
• '19 Kids & Counting' Finale: Which Duggar Will Be First To Move Away From The Family? (VIDEO)
  The Duggar family is spreading across the country. On the season finale of "19 Kids and Counting," Josh and Anna announced that they were moving to Washington, D.C. Josh will become the first in the massive Duggar family to move away from the family.“Arkansas is home to me. I really have no desire to move away," he said. "But sometimes, w […]
• Oklahoma Tornado 2013: Rescuers Continue Search For Survivors As Cleanup Begins
  MOORE, Okla., May 22 (Reuters) - Rescue efforts in the tornado-ravaged Oklahoma City suburb of Moore continued through the night into Wednesday morning, with officials increasingly confident that everyone caught in the disaster had been accounted for. The massive tornado that tore through the area on Monday wiped out blocks of houses, killed at least 24 peop […]
• George Heymont: Heaping Doses of Tough Love
  Whether one takes the dramatic or comedic approach, truth telling is an acquired skill. Some people just blurt things out, failing to think before they... […]
• 'Don't Be Tardy...': Kim Ready To Have More Kids, Give Husband A Football Team (VIDEO)
  Kim Zolciak may have to think about changing the name of her show from "Don't Be Tardy..." to "Don't Be Tardy To The Birth." After giving birth to two sons in less than two years, Kim says she's ready for more kids.“The thing is, that, we can afford to have more children. There’s really no point in me not doing it, and I lo […]
• Is Abortion About To Doom Republicans Again?
  Recently, I asked Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, one of the most fiercely pro-choice members of Congress, why she thought the House of Representatives had been so muted this year in its introduction of anti-abortion and anti–Planned Parenthood bills. “It pays to fight,” she said.Read More... More on Republicans […]