CHEEKY TRICK BACKFIRES

Man hospitalized after lighting fireworks in butt

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A 23-year-old man in New Zealand suffered serious injuries on Saturday after he set off a firework between his buttocks.

THE DAILY BALLER

Hacker replaces The Daily Caller’s ads with hardcore porn

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Unidentified hackers on Monday replaced The Daily Caller’s advertisements with hardcore pornography.

THE POOREST VOTE

Limbaugh: Don’t tell ‘people on welfare when the election is’

Rush Limbaugh (screen capture via ABC News)

Rush Limbaugh is calling on his listeners to keep the election date a secret from the poorest Americans. “Ninety-nine days, folks,” the conservative radio host announced on Monday.

OVERSEAS TOUR

White House wants Romney to explain Israel remarks

Romney in Israel via AFP

The White House called Monday on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to explain recent remarks including his apparent endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a position that counters U.S. policy.

A CRIME OF (DRUG) POSSESSION

Georgia man pistol whips woman and forces 7-year-old to smoke pot

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Twenty-six-year old Justin Blake Mitchell of McDonough, Georgia has been arrested and charged with hitting a woman with a gun and forcing a 7-year-old boy to smoke marijuana at gunpoint.

WAR ON WOMEN

Court defies Roe v. Wade by upholding AZ 20-week abortion ban

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The U.S. District Court of Arizona rejected a Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenge to the state’s 20-week abortion ban.

Science

Canadian intelligence report sees threat from ‘radicalized environmentalist faction’

An intelligence assessment from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that describes environmental activsts as posing…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus holds promise of alien life

Enceladus is little bigger than a lump of rock and has appeared, until recently, as…

Koch-funded climate scientist: I was wrong, humans are to blame

Controversial Down’s syndrome testing gets Swiss go-ahead

Tech News

Taiwan university sues Apple over iPhone patents

Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has filed a suit against U.S. tech giant Apple, claiming…

Police using ‘predictive analytics’ to prevent crimes before they happen

Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology…

Media

Twitter suspends journalist’s account for revealing NBC executive’s email

Twitter suspended the account of one of the heavier critics of NBC’s Olympics Games coverage…

Van Susteren: Covering Romney trip like being in a ‘petting zoo’

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren criticized Mitt Romney’s campaign Monday on her personal blog…

World

U.S. and Europe block ‘treaty for blind people’ due to copyright concerns

The US and the EU are blocking a treaty that would give the world’s blind and visually impaired people –…

Chinese party newspaper says leaders must listen after riots

China’s most influential newspaper on Monday urged authorities to listen to people’s worries about pollution, after fears over a new…

Russian PM: Syria must decide its own future

Russia’s differences with the West on Syria are not as great as they appear, as both agree on the need…

Israel prepares to vote on sweeping austerity measures

Ministers in Israel’s cabinet were on Monday preparing to vote on a package of sweeping economic austerity measures in a…

U.S. News

Former President Clinton to give prime-time Democratic convention speech

How Bill Clinton's prime-time convention speech could hurt Obama (via The Christian Science Monitor) Let’s…

Holmes charged with 24 counts of murder in Colorado shootings

Prosecutors charged James Eagan Holmes with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted…

Romney: I paid ‘substantial’ taxes ‘so far as I can recall’

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday said he wasn’t sure if he had…

Warner Bros films new ending to ‘Gangster Squad’ after Aurora shooting

Warner Bros, the studio behind The Dark Knight Rises, has been forced to shoot an…

With $32 billion in subsidies, over half of for-profit students drop out

A two-year investigation found that for-profit colleges, while receiving $32 billion in federal student aid…