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Boy Scouts ban water-gun fights
New York Post - 20 May 2015 18:59
Boy Scouts everywhere will no longer be able to partake in the summer childhood pastime of squirt guns and water balloon fights.
'He's good to his family': Wife of biker arrested in gang shootout
New York Post - 20 May 2015 16:10
WACO, Texas -- Bullets ricocheted around the parking lot of Twin Peaks, the Waco restaurant where a motorcycle gang shootout left nine dead, just minutes after Theron Rhoten pulled in...
Beyonce Just Made the Ultimate 1% Statement
Time - 20 May 2015 21:01
And people are pretty upset about it
Panda Poop Suggests They Shouldn't Eat Their Favorite Food of Bamboo
Time - 20 May 2015 08:56
After 14 hours of eating bamboo, only 17% is digested
Joe Biden's son taken to hospital
New York Post - 20 May 2015 06:34
Beau Biden, a son of Vice President Joe Biden, has been hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington. Biden, 46, a former Delaware attorney general, is undergoing treatment...
Speaker of German parliament rescinds Sisi invitation
Al Jazeera English - 20 May 2015 01:55
Norbert Lammert cancels planned Berlin meeting with Egypt's president next month over country's human rights violations.
Secret X37-B Space Plane Launches on Fourth Mission
ABC News - 20 May 2015 18:32
A secretive space plane owned by the United States Air Force launched on its fourth out of this world mission today.
Pakistan Welcomes First International Cricket Tour Since 2009 Lahore Attack
Time - 20 May 2015 09:18
Eight people were killed nearby the same stadium six years ago
UN Official Says Building Laws Need to Be Enforced in Nepal
ABC News - 20 May 2015 08:58
UN official says earthquake-hit Nepal needs to take lessons from Mexico, enforce building laws
Oil pipeline spills about 21K gallons off California coast
New York Post - 20 May 2015 08:22
GOLETA, Calif. -- A broken pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday, creating a slick stretching about 4 miles along the...
Over 430 Migrants Taken to Indonesia After Months at Sea
Time - 20 May 2015 07:47
More than 430 migrants stranded at sea were brought ashore to safety by Indonesian fishermen
Norwegian Cruise Line Ship Dawn Refloated And Anchored In Bermuda After Malfunction
IBTimes - 20 May 2015 07:41
A Norwegian Cruise Line ship named Dawn ran aground on a reef Tuesday after leaving Bermuda's Kings' Wharf port when a "malfunction" in its steering wheel caused it to sail slightly off course. The cruise, with over 3,50...
Texas hunter shoots rhino after controversial auction
CNN - 20 May 2015 07:22
Eighteen months after bidding $350,000 for a permit to shoot a black rhino, Corey Knowlton takes CNN to Namibia to witness the hunt, which he says will help preserve the species.
George W. Bush's CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD Intelligence to Public
Mother Jones - 20 May 2015 01:25
For a dozen years, the Bush-Cheney crowd have been trying to escape—or cover up—an essential fact of the W. years: President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their lieutenants misled the American public a...
Defector: We were told S. Koreans are starving
CNN - 20 May 2015 01:07
North Korean defector Hyeonseo Lee speaks to CNN's Michael Holmes about life after fleeing the hermit kingdom.
Beau Biden, U.S. vice president's son, hospitalized
Reuters - 20 May 2015 01:04
WASHINGTON
California Joins 12-State Climate Change Agreement Ahead Of 2015 UN Conference In Paris
IBTimes - 20 May 2015 00:06
California has joined a pact with 11 other states and countries to slash greenhouse gas emissions and tackle climate change. Gov. Jerry Brown signed an agreement Tuesday as part of a broader effort to pressure global lea...
Disabled Dutch Child, 4, Becomes Islamic State Mascot
IBTimes - 20 May 2015 00:04
A 4-year-old child from the Netherlands was seen in Islamic State propaganda pictures. And it was his mother who shared the pictures with her former classmates. Hasna A., the 24-year-old mother, left her country for Syri...
Why You Might Want to Pay Attention to Your Kid's Nightmares
Time - 20 May 2015 21:45
Children who had nightmares at age 12 had about twice the odds of having psychotic experiences later on
Will HLPF push for accountability in post-2015 development agenda?
OpEdNews - 20 May 2015 17:13
Without robust accountability and monitoring mechanisms, how will people ensure that their governments deliver on the promises they make towards post-2015 sustainable development agenda? Kate Lappin explains what role ca...
Pianist wins right to publish memoir detailing childhood sex abuse
New York Post - 20 May 2015 15:38
LONDON -- Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that a pianist may publish a memoir detailing sexual abuse he suffered as a child, despite his ex-wife's privacy concerns. The court on...
Huckabee: I would ask Clinton about Benghazi
USA Today - 20 May 2015 14:49
GOP presidential hopeful pokes fun at Clinton for avoiding the media.