Black Voting Rate Surpassed White Voting Rate In 2012
According to Census Bureau data, 66.2 percent of eligible African-American voters turned out to cast a ballot in the 2012 election, compared to 64 ...
Opinion
78,000 Apply For One-Way Trip To Mars
The Dutch nonprofit Mars One, which hopes to send a small group of humans on a one-way mission to establish a colony on the surface ...
Billions Of Cicadas Begin Swarming East Coast
After 17 years underground, as many as one trillion so-called Brood II cicadas are beginning to emerge along the East Coast for their brief two- ...
Homegrown Terrorism
The headline of Tuesday's article about homegrown terrorism was not as alarmist as it could have been.
SC Voters Forgive Sanford For ‘Appalachian Trail’ Affair
Four years after famously lying to his staff and constituents that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, when in actuality he was visiting his secret ...
Parents Urged To Suck Infants' Pacifiers To Prevent Allergies
A study found that parents could help prevent allergies in their infants by sucking on their children’s pacifiers before returning them to the kids ...
Man Creates Functional Gun On 3D Printer
Cody Wilson, founder of the libertarian nonprofit Defense Distributed, has created a functional plastic gun on a 3D printer that uses standard handgun rounds, demonstrating ...
PETA Attacks Chris Christie For Killing Spider
After New Jersey governor Chris Christie posted a video online of him squishing a spider with his hand while meeting with a group of children ...
Suicide Rate Up Sharply Among Middle-Aged
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate among Americans between the ages of 35 and 64 increased by 28 percent ...
Good Chuck
Dear The Onion,
Thanks for listing the price of ground chuck every day. When it goes above $3.45/lb., I don’t have ground ...
First Woman Added To FBI’s 'Most Wanted Terrorists' List
Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army who killed a New Jersey state trooper 40 years ago and has since fled to Cuba ...
First American Colonists Engaged In Cannibalism
Citing knife and saw marks on the bones of a 14-year-old girl who is believed to have died of starvation, researchers concluded that the colonists ...
New Zealand Bans Naming Babies ‘Christ,’ ‘Lucifer’
New Zealand, which requires government approval of all baby names before they become official, released a list of the names it has rejected, including “4Real ...
Woman Placed Poisoned Orange Juice In Starbucks
A California woman has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly placing two bottles of orange juice containing lethal amounts of rubbing alcohol into a ...
