
cnn.com Jacksonville, Florida (CNN) — Front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich got the most attention and Romney appeared to get the better of his opponent on a couple of occasions during the final debate before Tuesday’s critical Florida primary. While his attacks Thursday night on his rival weren’t sharp, Romney was forceful and had Gingrich [...]
cnn.com Giglio, Italy (CNN) — In his answers to prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge, the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship Costa Concordia admitted he made a “mistake” in colliding with rocks off the Italian island of Giglio. However, in statements made during a phone conversation with a friend earlier this month, Capt. Francesco [...]
bloomberg.com Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama called for the nation’s wealthy to pay more in taxes as part of a bargain to restore fairness to the U.S. economy and rein in the deficit, in a State of the Union address that hit the populist themes he’ll be repeating in his campaign for a [...]
cnn.com Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama launches a three-day swing through key election states Wednesday after declaring in what could be his final State of the Union address that the nation was strengthening but must confront the defining issue of preserving the American dream. In the speech Tuesday night to a joint sitting of [...]
reuters.com (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he will pay $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $45.2 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011. Bowing to increasing political pressure to provide more detail about his vast wealth, the former private equity executive released tax [...]
Posted on 26 January 2012
www.bankrate.com Would you give a thief direct access to your checking account? No? Unfortunately, you may be doing just that by regularly using your debit card. Debit cards may look identical to credit cards, but there’s one key difference. With credit cards, users who spot fraudulent charges on their bill can simply decline the charges [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 January 2012
cnn.com Rave-goers and visitors to Amsterdam before December 2008 may be intimately familiar with magic mushrooms, but there’s little scientific knowledge on what happens to the brain while tripping. Now it appears that more research is warranted. A growing number of studies suggested that perhaps the mushrooms’ key ingredient could work magic for certain mental [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 24 January 2012
www.ryanseacrest.com Your new guilty pleasure has arrived as Bravo has released the first look at video from “Shahs of Sunset” in a cold open for the highly-anticipated show. The two minute clip sets the scene for the show which follows a group of young Persian-American friends who live and work in the area between Beverly [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 January 2012
latimes.com First, they could grow a mustache, just like Walt Disney. Now, they can grow a little more facial hair but not quite enough to be like one of the Seven Dwarfs. Disneyland announced that it’s loosened up its dress code — known as the “Disney Look” — to now allow employees to grow more [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 23 January 2012
yahoo.com It may be a buyer’s market when it comes to real estate, but there are still many things you’re often better off renting. Of course, there’s no substitute for ownership if you truly need an item for repeated use, but if you’re only going to use something once in a while, why pay full [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 22 January 2012
www.mademan.com George Clooney has had many ladies during his career, and most of his girlfriends are hotter than any woman you will ever touch. It’s okay, don’t be sad. After all, the man played Danny Ocean! No woman could resist a man who’s that smooth. Whether he was working soap operas, rescuing people in the [...] Continue Reading