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A majority of Michiganians supports gay marriage and broadening rights for homosexuals, a dramatic reversal from just a few years ago, according to a statewide poll released Tuesday to The Detroit News and WDIV-TV Channel 4. Support for same-sex marriage has increased to 56.8 percent, up 12.5 percentage points from last year —...
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Same-sex marriage will be legal in Rhode Island starting Aug. 1 after the state House of Representatives gave final approval to the legislation Thursday, thrilling supporters who’ve been pushing the issue for 16 years. Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law at a ceremony on the South Steps of the State House...
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Five people were killed in a shooting at an apartment complex near Seattle late on Sunday, including a order levitra online suspect who was shot by officers, police said. Read the complete story.
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Pat Summerall, the football player turned legendary play-by-play announcer, died Tuesday. He was 82. He was best known as a broadcaster for teaming with former NFL coach John Madden for 22 years. Summerall also worked for years alongside former player Tom Brookshier and became the voice of the NFL in the 1970s and 1980s,...
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A Paris court has rejected a bid to stop the auction of masks originating from a native American tribe in Arizona, according to the tribe’s lawyer. The Hopi tribe and its supporters say the sale would amount to sacrilege. The Hopi say the 70 masks are blessed with divine spirits and have been stolen...
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President Obama led a chorus of voices paying tribute to legendary film critic Roger Ebert, who died Thursday at the age of 70 after a prolonged battle with cancer. The fellow Chicagoan and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer “was the movies,” Obama said. “The movies won’t be the same without Roger, and our thoughts and prayers...
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Elwin Wilson, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who famously apologized for his past racism, has died at age 76. Fifty years ago John Lewis, who would later go on to become a representative for Georgia in Congress, was beaten by Wilson and his friends at a South Carolina bus station. In...
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United States President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation. On Tuesday, Pres. Obama inked his name to H.R. 933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill...
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Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the chief prosecutor investigating the massacre said Thursday. The total included 154 fired from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and a final bullet, fired from a Glock 10mm handgun, that...
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People are asking, What is The Red Equal Sign in Red and Pink that is appearing all over the Internet on social networks, and has trended nationally? It is in support of marriage equality under the law as the Court heard arguments today regarding DOMA (The defense of marriage act). Well arguments have concluded...
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Jodi Arias Trial: Domestic violence expert testifies A domestic violence expert testified Tuesday in Jodi Arias’ murder trial that most victims don’t tell anyone about abuse because they feel ashamed and humiliated, though the witness spoke only in generalities and didn’t discuss whether she ever met with Arias. Alyce LaViolette, a psychotherapist who specializes...
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Listening Here The Supreme Court Heard Arguments Today, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in the Proposition 8 case (Hollingsworth v. Perry). The audio recording and unofficial version of the transcript of the oral arguments are available at this link.
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SCOTUS to take up Prop 8, DOMA As public opinion on gay marriage continues to shift, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the federal government can refuse to recognize it, and whether the states can ban it in the first place. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. nbc news
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The U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments For Two Gay Marriage Cases, DOMA & Prop 8, On Tuesday And Wednesday The Supreme Court will take the forefront in the same-sex marriage debate on Tuesday and Wednesday when it hears arguments on the constitutionality of California’s controversial Proposition 8 and the Clinton-era Defense of...
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Processed Meat Linked to Early Death Looking for another excuse to start eating like a Mediterranean? Look no further than this new study from the medical journal BMC Medicine. Researchers followed people from 10 European countries over an average of 13 years and concluded that diets heavy in processed meats—bacon, ham, sausage, and the...
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Jerry Buss, who bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979 and turned them into the N.B.A.’s glamour team, winners of 10 league championships and the cornerstone of his Southern California sports empire, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 80. His death was announced by the Lakers. He had been hospitalized with cancer...
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The so-called morning-after pill has exploded in popularity since it was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration 15 years ago. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5.8 million American women used emergency contraception (EC) between 2006 and 2010. Nearly a quarter of sexually active women...
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As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to two billion tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday. The UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) blames the “staggering” new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one...
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Watch the nominations for the 85th Academy Awards live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Best picture favourites for Oscar nominations include Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Les Miserables. Host Seth MacFarlane will announce the nominations from around 1.30pm GMT, along with Emma Stone. The Oscar ceremonies will be broadcast from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood...
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The 39th annual People’s Choice Awards were handed out Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Kaley Cuoco, of ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ helmed the show which awards fan favorites in music, TV and movies. Jennifer Aniston won the first award of the evening when she was awarded with the People’s Choice Favorite Comedic Actress award....
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