Apr 12, 2012 – Royal Dutch Shell says a sheen of oil, 10 square miles in size, has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell (RDSA) said late Wednesday that it reported the sheen to the National Response Center. Shell said the sheen is one mile wide and ten miles...

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Apr 11, 2012 – Notorious killer Charles Manson, 77, was denied parole Wednesday after a California parole panel "could find nothing good as far as suitability" for his being paroled, a commissioner said. Manson didn't show up for his parole hearing, which was held at a state prison in Corcoran, California, where he...

Apr 11, 2012 – Defiant North Korea fueled up a rocket Wednesday in preparation for what appeared to be an imminent liftoff while the country's young leader strengthened his power with a new title making him the nation's top political official. Kim Jong Un was named first secretary of the ruling Workers' Party,...

Apr 11, 2012 – The chaplain of Vanderbilt Catholic, one of the largest student religious groups at Vanderbilt University, said their organization has been ordered by university officials to change their name. The order came after the Catholic group announced it was leaving campus rather than comply with the university’s new nondiscrimination policy....

Apr 11, 2012 – Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in on the Trayvon Martin shooting on Wednesday and said the Justice Department faces a “very high barrier” in bringing federal hate crime charges in cases like it. “Many of you are greatly — and rightly — concerned about the recent shooting death of...

Apr 11, 2012 – RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday that he would "double down" on his remarks equating Democrats' suggestion the GOP is waging a "war on women" to a fictional "war on caterpillars." "I'm not going to walk back, I'm going to double down on it. This war on women is...

Apr 11, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against Apple and several publishing companies over a scheme to fix e-book prices. The suit stems from the 2010 release of the iPad, when Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) reached an agreement with five publishers to release books on its...

Apr 11, 2012 – Rick Santorum has vowed to help GOP contender Mitt Romney win the presidential election, according to his press secretary. In an interview on CNN, Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart said Santorum offered Romney assurances when he called the presumptive GOP presidential nominee to tell him he was ending...

Apr 11, 2012 – When a two-member panel holds a California parole hearing for notorious murderer Charles Manson on Wednesday, he will be represented by state-appointed attorney DeJon R. Lewis, who will urge the state to put Manson in a mental hospital, Lewis told CNN. Manson, 77, and Lewis, 45, who was a...

Apr 11, 2012 – Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Wednesday acknowledged GOP criticisms that the Obama administration’s Buffett Rule “isn’t going to balance the budget,” but argued that the proposal was important as a matter of “values” and “fairness.” “This is an issue about fairness,” Coons said on MSNBC. “It isn’t going to...

Apr 11, 2012 – Reebok has reached a settlement with Nike, agreeing to stop producing sports apparel with the name of football star Tim Tebow, according to court documents. Reebok agreed to stop manufacturing, distributing and selling its "unauthorized Tebow products," namely T-shirts and jerseys printed with the name of the New York...

Apr 11, 2012 – Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist who spent three years during World War II living under unspeakable circumstances in several of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. While imprisoned, Frankl realized he had one single freedom left: He had the power to determine his response to the horror unfolding...

Apr 10, 2012 – The attorneys for George Zimmerman, the community watch volunteer who fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, said Tuesday they have lost touch with their client and are withdrawing from the case. Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig said at a news conference outside the Seminole County Courthhouse in Sanford, Fla., that they...

Apr 10, 2012 – Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) visited a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border Tuesday, as they accused the international community of failing the people of Syria and called for military action against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The pair met with leaders of the Syrian National...

Apr 10, 2012 – The Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for two suicide attacks on government facilities in Afghanistan that killed at least 18 people and wounded 27 others. Many of the dead were police officers. The first attack took place outside the police district administrator's office in the Guzara district of western...

Apr 10, 2012 – Special prosecutor Angela Corey has not indicated when she will decide whether to file charges against a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death. Corey, assigned to oversee the investigation, announced Monday that she would not present the controversial shooting case to a grand jury. A...

Apr 10, 2012 – The man at the center of a firestorm over his shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager has launched a website, warning supporters about groups that falsely claim to be raising funds for his defense and soliciting donations for himself. "I am the real George Zimmerman," declares the website, set...

Apr 10, 2012 – The man at the center of a firestorm over his shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager has launched a website, warning supporters about groups that falsely claim to be raising funds for his defense and soliciting donations for himself. "I am the real George Zimmerman," declares the website, set...

Apr 29, 2012 – John Bolton told Townhall earlier this month, "[T]he way I would look at it is this: Osama bin Laden was killed while Obama was president…

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Apr 27, 2012 – The elementary school daughters of a soldier paralyzed in Afghanistan were punished for wearing t-shirts that bore the logo of an organization that provides homes for severely wounded veterans, according to their mother. However, the Texas school district said it has absolutely nothing to do with the logo — and...