By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
Rock stars, Hollywood actors, comedians and writers Wednesday released a video lauding confessed Wikileaks leaker Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, who is being court-martialed for passing out hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Author Noam Chomsky blasted the Obama administration in an interview on Tuesday, charging that President Obama “is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history.” Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
Miss Utah Marissa Powell didn’t win the Miss USA pageant over the weekend. But she is the only contestant everyone was talking about after after bumbling through her interview session — a cringe-worthy comment period that quickly went viral on the Internet. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Terry Spencer - Associated Press
Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy “Mars Attacks!,” died Wednesday at a Florida hospital. He was 90. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Associated Press
A Milan court has convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion. Published June 19, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times
The future of long-standing government bans on obscenity and nudity on the airwaves soon could become much clearer as President Obama’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission faces a Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday — one day before the public comment period on the policy ends. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Lil Wayne’s latest music video shows the best-selling rapper stomping an American flag that’s stretched on the ground — and Twitter followers aren’t happy. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
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By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Police charged a 13-year-old New Orleans boy with second-degree murder after he killed his 5-year-old sister using wrestling moves imitated from TV. Published June 18, 2013
By William Murchison - Special to The Washington Times
Robert Peter George has to be one of the most civilized people laboring around these parts to make sense of the muddle we call modern life. The word "civilized" I use in its, shall we say, civilized sense — as marking ownership of, or attachment to, qualities formerly associated with the good life: judgment, propriety, dignity, reasonableness, not to mention old-fashioned common sense. Published June 18, 2013
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
House Republicans powered through a bill Tuesday to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying the recent conviction of a Philadelphia abortion provider for killing newborn babies has revived the contentious debate. Published June 18, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Boston Children's Hospital transplant surgeons are actively seeking children who need new hands. The facility has a new pediatric hand transplant unit, which opened Monday — the first of its kind in the world. Published June 17, 2013
By John Rogers - Associated Press
Kris Jenner says her daughter Kim Kardashian is thrilled to have a new baby. Published June 17, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
A new video starring top Hollywood celebrities urges President Obama to set forth a plan for disarming the world of nuclear weapons at this week's G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland. Published June 17, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
China's latest supercomputer is the world's fastest, nearly twice as fast as what earned a United States computer that title last year, according to a report released Monday. Published June 17, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
Apple, Inc. has become the latest technology firm to come clean about U.S. government requests to snoop on its customers' communications, after a self-proclaimed whistleblower revealed that the National Security Agency had agreements with the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker and eight other major Internet companies to access their data. Published June 17, 2013
By Associated Press
Entertainer Barbra Streisand is attacking Jewish religious practices in Israel that treat women differently from men. Published June 17, 2013
By Kyle Peterson - Special to The Washington Times
On one point, Kevin Williamson is almost certainly right: We are headed over the cliff. But halfway through the National Review correspondent's new book, "The End Is Near and It's Going to be Awesome," I began to wonder what the final word of his title is supposed to mean. Published June 17, 2013
By Jill Lawless - Associated Press
British police are investigating newspaper photos that show art collector Charles Saatchi with his hands around the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson. Published June 17, 2013
