At least seven people have been killed in a fire that swept through a garment factory in the Bangladeshi capital, police said Thursday. “Seven people have died of suffocation,” local police chief Khalilur Rahman told AFP, adding that firefighters extinguished the blaze in the early…
Philly kitten that was horrifically burned makes remarkable recovery
Kitten burned in Philly recovering at Hunterdon County vet (via NJ.com) Courtesy of Animal Alliance LEBANON — The one-pound kitten was found, burning, at a Philadelphia intersection last Thursday. A quick-thinking Samaritan took off a coat, and smothered the flames, saving the burning 5-week-old…
Maddow to O’Reilly: ‘How do you handle the rest of humanity when you are so great?’
Thursday night on Bravo TV’s “Watch What Happens Live,” host Andy Cohen welcomed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Cohen showed Maddow several photos of celebrities and asked her to say the first question that she would ask each of them if…
Colbert: Summer blockbuster movies are ‘destroying America’
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert warned that certain summer blockbuster movies could be harboring secret anti-American themes. The new “Superman” film stars an Englishman and parts of “Iron Man 3″ were edited for a special Chinese-only…
Bombing suspects originally plotted July 4 attack
BOSTON — The brothers suspected in the bombing of the Boston Marathon initially envisioned themselves as suicide bombers who would strike on the Fourth of July, according to a new report.Two law enforcement officials told The New York Times that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who survives, admitted the plans two days after he was captured in a suburban Boston backyard on April 19.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also confessed that he and his older brother had watched online sermons of radical American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki before carrying out the attacks, according to the Times sources.The Tsarnaev brothers moved up the date of the attack to April 15, Patriot Day in Boston, when they finished making their pressure-cooker bombs ahead of schedule, according to the officials. The paper said the bombs were assembled in the Cambridge, Mass., apartment of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police.Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body had lain unclaimed, but Boston Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said a funeral home retained by the 26-year-old’s family picked up the remains Thursday afternoon.He said he had no more information about plans for the remains.Continue Reading… … Read More
Five shot in Newark as mourner opened fire at vigil after argument
A vigil in the city’s South Ward for the victim of a fatal car accident turned bloody Thursday night when one of the mourners opened fire, leaving five people, including a young girl, injured, two law enforcement… ;
Jon Stewart: Veterans Affairs is the Guantanamo Bay of benefit claims
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart again ripped the Veterans Affairs on Thursday night over its massive benefits backlog. He joked the federal agency had declared paper to be an “enemy combatant” and therefore had detained it indefinitely. Stewart called Veterans Affairs “a kind of…
