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  • Thu May 5, 2:17 pm ET

    Excuse me, but aren’t we brothers?

    By Lili Ladaga

    Luck, fate, kismet -- whatever you want to call it, two guys named Joe and Rick got hit by all three on a beach in Hawaii.

    It started innocently enough: Joe Parker was walking on the beach one day. He saw a family taking pictures and offered to take a group photo of Rick Hill and his family. Rick and Joe get to talking, one thing leads to another -- and voila: Turns out they're related! And not as 13th cousins twice-removed -- the pair discovered they were from the same part of Massachusetts, which led them to find out that they had something else in common: Dad.

    Who knew?! Clearly not these two, which means Dad has a LOT of explaining to do when they get home.

  • Who's Who in the John Edwards Scandal

    ContributorNetwork – Sat May 28, 5:40 pm ET  

    Once considered a Democratic front runner for the White House, John Edwards, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina, now is facing criminal indictments for allegedly violating campaign finance laws . According to reports, the Justice Department has been examining one million dollars in donations that came from two different contributors. These funds reportedly were used to cover up Edwards' extramarital affair. Full Story »

  • Collective Bargaining for Wisconsin State Employees Remains Intact

    ContributorNetwork – Fri May 27, 4:40 pm ET  

    Thursday proved to be a victory for Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi of Dane Circuit Court ruled against the Republican state senators' March 9 vote on Assembly Bill 11, which would have stripped collective bargaining rights and detrimentally impacted state employees' health benefits and pensions, reports the New York Times. Full Story »

  • American Legion Defends Utah's 'Illegal' Crosses

    ContributorNetwork – Fri May 27, 3:58 pm ET  

    The American Legion, a leading U.S. veterans' organization, has stepped forward to defend 13 crosses on Utah's public highways that were declared "unconstitutional" in August of 2010. Full Story »

  • One monk, one drag queen vs 12,000 police at French G8

    Reuters – Fri May 27, 2:55 pm ET  

    DEAUVILLE, France (Reuters) - A few hundred campers in a faraway forest, one Buddhist monk and one drag queen -- protest at G8 summits is not what it used to be. Full Story »

  • Embarrassment, mockery over Berlusconi's latest gaffe

    Reuters – Fri May 27, 12:02 pm ET  

    ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi's latest international gaffe, when he complained to a bemused President Barack Obama about his problems with magistrates, was met with mockery, embarrassment and scorn at home on Friday. Full Story »

  • "Cuban blue" cats said to be new breed

    Reuters – Fri May 27, 10:53 am ET  

    HAVANA (Reuters) - In a Havana apartment, four silvery gray cats race around the floor and tumble over the furniture playing with each other, occasionally jumping into the laps of their human visitors. Full Story »

  • Why Young Americans Have High Blood Pressure

    ContributorNetwork – Thu May 26, 4:20 pm ET  

    The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health, was launched in 1994 as a school-based survey of adolescent behavior. Add Health's ongoing purpose is to collate information on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being and to link that information to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. Full Story »

  • Police hunt for "Goldilocks"

    Reuters – Fri May 27, 12:36 pm ET  

    LONDON (Reuters) - British police appealed for help Friday in tracing a suspected burglar they have dubbed "Goldilocks" because he breaks into houses, eats food and then has a sleep. Full Story »

  • Phone app tells tales on murderer

    Reuters – Thu May 26, 8:55 am ET  

    SEOUL (Reuters) - It began with a simple phrase -- "brace yourself" -- sent by a university professor to his mistress via a South Korean messaging service app used by millions every day. Full Story »

  • FBI says "mullet bandit" holds up another bank

    Reuters – Thu May 26, 8:54 am ET  
    A surveillance image released by the FBI shows a man with a mullet... Reuters

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Ohio bank robber dubbed the "mullet bandit" by federal authorities appears to have struck again. Full Story »

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