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When Is Whitney Thore's Due Date? Pregnant TLC Star Posts Instagram Picture With Ex-Boyfriend Lennie Alehat
IBTimes - 1 Feb 2017 20:28
"My Big Fat Fabulous Life" star Whitney Thore continues to tease fans after she announced she was pregnant on the Season 4 premiere of the TLC reality show. Last week, Thore updated fans after the episode aired. But foll...
Democrats delay Jeff Sessions' AG confirmation with this trick
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 00:21
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats delayed a vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General using a procedural trick during a Judiciary Committee hearing. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer initiated the slowdown from the ...
Green Card Holder Dies a Day After Being Prevented From Returning Home by Trump's Order, Report Says
Time - 1 Feb 2017 06:45
Mike Hager says his mother died the day after she was stopped at the airport
Teacher fired because she used to work in porn
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 17:37
A sixth-grade teacher at an all-girls school in Texas is out of a job and fighting to get her position back after district officials learned she worked in porn more than a decade ago. Resa Woodward, 38, was removed from ...
Senate Finance Committee to reconvene to consider Trump nominees
Reuters - 1 Feb 2017 16:56
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Will Democrats Stop President Trump's Supreme Court Nominee?
Time - 1 Feb 2017 05:50
Like a master of ceremonies at a beauty pageant, President Trump unveiled his Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch to a crowd of applauding Washington lawmakers at the White House, no members of the Democratic Congre...
War Against ISIS: UK Fighter Ryan Lock Kills Himself Before Islamic State Capture In Syria
IBTimes - 1 Feb 2017 17:20
A British man fighting in Syria killed himself before being captured by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, as he fought alongside Kurdish forces.
Inside the bloodstained mosque where 6 people were shot dead
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 16:21
The first footage from inside the Quebec mosque where a Canadian student allegedly killed six Muslim worshipers emerged Wednesday. The images show the aftermath of Alexandre Bissonnette’s alleged rampage, with blood sp...
Over 1,100 admitted to US since Trump ordered travel ban
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 06:24
Homeland Security officials revealed Tuesday that 1,134 people covered by President Trump's anti-terror travel ban have been vetted and let into the country since the order went into effect -- while two were denied ent...
Don't freak out, but our nation's bacon reserve is dwindling fast
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 16:53
American meat lovers are so hog wild for bacon that they’ve brought the stockpile down to its lowest level in half a century. Pork belly, the fatty cut of the pig that is typically turned into bacon, was down to 17.8 m...
Biden to launch a nonprofit organization to ensure everyone gets 'a fair shot' at the American Dream
The Week - 1 Feb 2017 16:52
Former Vice President Joe Biden may have ended his chapter in politics, but he's not done fighting for the causes he believes in. On Wednesday, Biden and his wife Jill Biden will launch a nonprofit organization to contin...
EU, Mexico to speed up trade talks amid Trump fallout
Miami Herald - 1 Feb 2017 16:48
The European Union said Wednesday that it will speed up talks with Mexico on a new trade agreement amid signals from U.S. President Donald Trump that he intends to renegotiate …
Trump's Pick to Head VA Rejects Radical Change to Fix Agency
ABC News - 1 Feb 2017 16:46
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs is promising to meet veterans' health care needs and says dismantling the beleaguered agency or making wide-scale firings isn't the answer
Teen fatally strangles mom during fight over meds: cops
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 16:33
NORCROSS, Ga. — Police in Georgia have arrested a 16-year-old who they say strangled his mother after the two argued about his taking his medication. Gwinnett County Cpl. Deon Washington says the teenager killed his mo...
Trump maintains travel ban keeps 'bad people' out
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 16:27
President Trump on Wednesday shrugged off critics of his controversial executive order suspending immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. “Everybody is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want,...
Iran insists missile test did not violate nuclear deal
New York Post - 1 Feb 2017 16:24
Iran’s defense minister said on Wednesday the Islamic Republic had tested a new missile, but added the test did not breach Tehran’s nuclear accord with world powers or a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the...
Pope Francis Is the Anti-Trump
The New Yorker - 1 Feb 2017 16:15
For readers consumed with the Trumpian chaos of the past ten days, images of a white-robed Pope Francis standing beside a man dressed like a nutcracker--the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, epaulett...
This Black History Month, We Declare: 'We, Too, Are America'
The Huffington Post - 1 Feb 2017 15:56
February marks the launch of Black History Month, a time to recognize the central role and revolutionary work of black people in America. Historian Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week in 1926 and it officially e...
German church OKs case-by-case Communion for remarried
Miami Herald - 1 Feb 2017 16:54
Germany's bishops have declared that Pope Francis' outreach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics opens the door to letting them receive Communion. In a statement Wednesday, the German bishops' conference …
Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging
Time - 1 Feb 2017 15:50
"Everyday I am still astonished by how widespread the technology is"
Commotion as Israeli security forces clear West Bank settlement
Fox News - 1 Feb 2017 15:45
Israeli security forces on Wednesday began evacuating the controversial Jewish settlement of Amona, which is slated for destruction -- but some protesters refused to leave without a fight.
Furor as Egypt officials use state funds for flashy cars
Fox News - 1 Feb 2017 15:35
Social media, TV stations and newspapers in Egypt are abuzz after reports that the parliament speaker and his two deputies are using state funds to get flashy cars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.