February 2012
50 posts
2 million to 1 odds: Mom, child born on leap day →
How are you celebrating Leap Day?
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James Murdoch out as News International chairman →
NBC: Michigan too close to call, Romney projected... →
Updated 9:00 pm ET: NOVI, Mich. – The Republican primary in Michigan remained too close to call as polls closed; NBC News projects Mitt Romney will win the Arizona GOP primary, according to early exit polls.
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Current Oscar count: "Hugo" leads all nominees... →
Tumblr bans blogs promoting anorexia, bulimia and... →
An announcement on the official Tumblr staff blog explains that the decision to revise the service’s content policy is not being taken lightly as its staff is “deeply committed to supporting and defending [its] users’ freedom of speech.” But as a company, those folks have decided that certain and specific types of content — including spam and identity theft — ”aren’t...
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BREAKING NEWS: 7 Marines die when helicopters... →
The Marines, from the 3rd Marine Airwing based at Miramar in Southern California, were conducting a training exercise at approximately 8 p.m. local time when their Cobra and Huey helicopters collided in midair. There were no survivors.
Why Samuel Jackson can't get a job →
Samuel M. Jackson, that is.
From NBCChicago.com:
Samuel M. Jackson, the job-seeker, is white and was 26 years old when the background report was performed. The three Samuel Jacksons whose reports were attached to his name were all decades older, African-American convicted sex offenders, two of whom were currently in prison. One of them is incarcerated for a rape that occurred when the...
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Dow Jones industrial average crosses 13,000 for... →
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Two shot at Federal building in Long Beach, Calif.... →
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Interracial marriage in US hits new high: 1 in 12 →
Chicago cops who took bag of cash caught in FBI... →
Two Chicago police officers, allegedly thinking they were stealing more than $5,000 in cash from a drug courier, were arrested earlier this week after it turned out they were being tracked in an undercover sting.
Study: 1 in 8 voter registrations have errors →
Some 24 million voter registrations in the United States contain significant errors, including about 1.8 million dead people still on the rolls and many more approved to vote in multiple states, according to a report released Tuesday.
WatchJustin Bieber made this 6-year-old with a rare form of cancer very happy. Can’t hate Bieber for that.
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'Crisis': Supplies of life-saving drug used to... →
NYT:
A crucial medicine to treat childhood leukemia is in such short supply that hospitals across the country may exhaust their stores within the next two weeks, leaving hundreds and perhaps thousands of children at risk of dying from a largely curable disease, federal officials and cancer doctors say.
Burglar breaks in, folds clothes, cooks dinner →
“He drunk up my orange juice, but it’s cool because he swept up my floor and folded my clothes,” the victim said.
Man tries to burn wife, scorches himself instead →
MIAMI - Authorities say a man is in critical condition Tuesday after he tried to set his wife on fire, but burned himself instead.
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Court: Calif. ban on gay marriage is... →
Study: Meetings can make you stupid →
All it takes is a colleague who seems smarter than us when he/she does a presentation, says the study’s lead author Kenneth T. Kishida, a research scientist. That can make us feel stupid — and that can get in the way of how our brains process information.
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For mentally ill inmates, health care behind bars... →
The Supreme Court says as long as a qualified professional has given inmates mental health examinations, they’re receiving the care they need. What constitutes qualified? Criminal justice experts spoke with msnbc.com about the difficulties jails and prisons face dealing with thisj- challenging population.
Woman claims big breasts impede sobriety test →
Guess which state this story is from?
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Feds' secret no-fly list more than doubles in a... →
The no-fly list jumped from about 10,000 known or suspected terrorists one year ago to about 21,000, according to government figures provided to the AP.
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1 million birth control pill packets recalled, may... →
Good. God.