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Walter Shipman, a gentlemanly amateur with a chess pro’s talent

Published March 27, 2017

Walter Shipman, one of the last great amateurs from the great postwar generation of American chess, died last month at the age of 87 following a long illness. His day job as a lawyer may have kept Shipman from reaching the very top, and certainly prevented him from competing in big-money international events over the […]

Charles Barkley: I’d kill Skip Bayless on live TV if I were terminally ill

Published March 27, 2017

Skip Bayless is one of the most polarizing figures in sports media today. The Fox Sports One host is often criticized for his opinions, which he rants about on television every morning. Bayless certainly has his fair share of critics, and one of them is former NBA All-Star and current TNT analyst Charles Barkley. Barkley […]

Most Creative Job Application Ever? Student Raps His Way to Fallon Internship

Published March 27, 2017

In what is being hailed as the most creative job application of all time, Jake Sirianni landed an internship with Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” by rapping all the reasons why he was the man for the job. Jake, who is a communications major at Washington State University, got the idea for the application from an […]

Are You Ready for Trouble?

Published March 27, 2017

by Truth About Guns Danger is all around you. Whether you can see danger and act if necessary that’s the real question. Put aside all your prejudices and ask yourself: are you ready when danger literally comes knocking on your front door? When you realize something is wrong Recently my neighborhood was a victim of violence […]

Biggest anti-Kremlin rally in years rocks Russia; opposition leader arrested

Published March 27, 2017

Russian authorities detained hundreds of anti-corruption protesters and arrested the nation’s leading opposition figure Sunday, as the biggest demonstrations against the Kremlin since 2011 broke out in several cities around the nation. Police detained anti-graft crusader Alexei Navalny in central Moscow, where thousands took to the streets in a rally staged roughly a year before […]

The Army Is Sending An Unknown Number Of Troops In New Deployment To Mosul

Published March 27, 2017

An unknown number of U.S. Army troops are heading to northern Iraq to participate in the fight against the Islamic State, sources told Military Times. The troops are from the 82nd Airborne Division, specifically the 2nd Brigade Combat Team from Fort Bragg in North Carolina. These troops will play an essential role of advising and […]

Best Space Stories of the Week — March 25, 2017

Published March 26, 2017

By SPACE.com Staff | March 25, 2017 08:00am ET Two of the raised treads on the left middle wheel of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars suffered breaks in early 2017. One of the breaks is visible as a partially detached section at the top of the wheel, seen here by Curiosity’s arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens […]

Earth’s original crust found in Canada

Published March 26, 2017

By Gina Carey at Fox News Tech Part of the planet’s original crust has been unearthed in Quebec, researchers Jonathan O’Neil and Richard Carlson announce in a study published in Science. Formed 4.3 billion years ago, the chunks of ancient crust were found embedded in granite that dates back 2.7 billion years near Hudson Bay. […]

Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness: An Inventory of Regulatory Dark Matter – 64 Page Report

Published March 26, 2017

Mapping Washington’s Lawlessness An Inventory of Regulatory Dark Matter 2017 Edition Clyde Wayne Crews • March 25, 2017 Read full document as PDF Congress passes and the President signs several dozen laws every year. Meanwhile, federal departments and agencies issue well over 3,000 regulations of varying significance. A weekday never passes without new regulations being […]

FBI posed as documentary filmmakers to conduct interviews with Bundy Ranch supporters

Published March 26, 2017

Undercover FBI agents disguised as documentary filmmakers were deployed to the Nevada desert in 2014 to speak with supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy amid an armed standoff with the federal government, an agent testified this week. Testifying on behalf of the government in its case against two of those supporters, FBI Special Agent Charles Johnson […]

Federal judge upholds travel ban, but earlier rulings leave it blocked

Published March 26, 2017

The Trump administration scored a victory Friday in its effort to enact a temporary ban on refugee resettlement and travel of foreign nationals from six countries, with a federal judge in Virginia siding with President Trump over a Muslim civil-rights group that challenged the legality of his revised executive order. Two other federal court rulings […]

Belarus protest turns violent as hundreds arrested

Published March 26, 2017

Police in Minsk have arrested hundreds of people during a mass rally organised to mark the 99th anniversary of the proclamation of the Belarussian People’s Republic. Many used the occasion to denounce an unpopular new tax on those not in full-time employment. Belarus riot police on the loose in Minsk: it takes 3 militarized policemen […]

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