The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reiterated its threat to sue the Obama
administration over its rule that all employers must offer contraception
without a copay in their insurance plans. Churches and other organizations that
mainly employ and serve people of one religion are exempt from the rule, but
the bishops say religiously affiliated hospitals, [...]
If there's one thing we can say about European car makers, it's that most of
them seem to have a great sense of humor. Nowhere is this more apparent than on
a trip past Volkswagen's Swedish headquarters in Google Street View,
where …
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Bill Wisth is 6-foot-6 and weighs 350 pounds. His version of an all-you-can-eat
buffet might be slightly different from yours or mine. And now Wisth is
protesting a Theinsville, Wisconsin, restaurant that finally cut him off after
eating 12 fish during its all-you-can-eat fish fry. "It's false advertising,"
Wisth said, who has been picketing the [...]
The defense in the John Edwards corruption trial rested on
Wednesday morning in Greensboro, N.C., without calling the former presidential
candidate, his daughter Cate or Rielle Hunter, his former mistress, mother of
his 4-year-old love child and the woman at the center of the scandal that
spawned the federal case against him. According to MSNBC, [...]
Fish that are used in trendy spa treatments to clean feet may not be so clean
themselves, a new study suggests.
Summer is a little over a month away—and that means shark story season is just
around the corner. California got a jump on the perennial wave over the weekend
when a kayaker says a 14-foot great white shark flipped and knocked him out of
his kayak near the Central California town of Cambria. "I got [...]
An Iranian rapper who lives in Germany says he has received death threats for a
song that criticizes Iranian society and, some say, an Islamic Shiite imam.
Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi, has faced a backlash since posting online
the song, "Naghi," earlier this month. One website is offering a $100,000
reward for his [...]


