Every so often, a new diet is touted as the secret to good health, rapid weight loss and flatter abs. The truth is, the perfect diet is already out there
The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be brought to life by famed
There are a lot of theories on the subject, and I have a few of my own. First, I would strongly argue with the premise. My industry is certainly made up predominantly of liberal Democrats, but there is a surprising number found on the other side of the political spectrum. Lots of writers, producers, directors and performers are quite conservative in their views, but you don’t hear from them as much or as noisily as you do from the left. Part of it, sadly, is the fear that they’ll suffer professionally if they’re
Sheen also called into Wired 96.5 on Thursday evening, comparing the station to "Vatican assassins" hours after the station flew a heart-emblazoned banner over his home.
Sheen has given a constant stream of interviews and media appearances in the last several weeks mixed in with a halt in the production of his show, "Two and a Half Men" and custody battle with his estranged wife that saw the couple's twin toddlers removed from his home Tuesday night.
During an encore appearance Friday morning, he told host Chio he feels positive about his job situation, saying "it feels like the hot springs of Middle Earth is finally ready to explode outward."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Authorities are investigating a California girl's claim that her family tried to force her into an arranged marriage in Pakistan, prompting the 13-year-old to run away from home and hide in a nearby motel.
Jesse Marie Bender disappeared from her Southern California home Feb. 22. Local and federal authorities launched a nationwide search for the child after her mother, Melissa Bender, said she thought her daughter was kidnapped by someone she met on Facebook.
But the family's account fell flat when police found the girl early Wednesday hiding at the Black Horse Motel in Apple Valley, Calif.
Jesse Bender, who was found unharmed and in the company of her biological uncle, told police she ran away to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
Roxanne Walker, a spokeswoman with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, told FoxNews.com that the teen lived in Hesperia, Calif., with her biological mother and stepfather, Mohammad Khan, a Pakistani native, but Walker said there were conflicting reports on whether Melissa Bender and Khan were legally married.
Walker said the girl was first reported as a juvenile runaway. She said the girl's mother told police that her daughter was upset about having to go on a two-month vacation to Pakistan. Melissa Bender then changed her story, Walker said, when she told authorities that Jesse may have been taken by a man she met on Facebook.
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A Connecticut town must provide their union workers free coffee and milk, according to a ruling from the State Board of Labor Relations.
The board also ordered town leaders to reinstate
A Texas lawmaker is pushing a bill that would ensure most people caught with small amounts of marijuana do not face jail time.
The proposal, which the Texas Democrat has introduced before, would make getting caught with an ounce or less of pot similar to getting pulled over for speeding. Instead of facing up to six months in jail, the culprit would face a maximum $500 fine.
Though it may not pass, the proposal is coming out of a state that for years carried some of the nation's toughest marijuana penalties.
Allen St. Pierre, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said that marijuana possession, even a small amount, carried a felony penalty and automatic jail time throughout the 1970s in Texas. The Texas Legislature modified the law a few years ago so that local jurisdictions could choose to fine, not lock up, minor offenders.
State Rep. Harold Dutton wants to make sure those offenders don't face any jail time. His proposal would automatically downgrade possession of one ounce or less from a "Class B" to a "Class C" misdemeanor.
Legalization advocates are getting behind the bill.
"From our point of view ... to have such a huge state like Texas that traditionally, historically has been so against these reforms, that would be one more indication of these reforms bubbling up from the states," St. Pierre said, adding that 13 states have taken jail time off the table for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
But he said that even if it passed, Republican Gov. Rick Perry would likely veto.
Possession of between one and two ounces would still be punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine. Anyone caught with between two and four ounces would face up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
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If President Obama will no longer defend the federal law against gay marriage, Republicans controlling the U.S. House say they will.
House Speaker John Boehner said Friday he is convening a bipartisan legal advisory group to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Boehner's announcement comes a week after the Obama Justice Department said it would no longer defend the law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, a reversal for the Obama administration, which had defended it despite the president's misgivings with the policy. The nation's lawyers as recently as last month had filed a court motion in support of the law.
Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the Justice Department would continue to enforce the law but no longer would defend its constitutionality in court challenges.
"It is regrettable that the Obama administration has opened this divisive issue at a time when Americans want their leaders to focus on jobs and the challenges facing our economy," Boehner said in a statement. "The constitutionality of this law should be determined by the courts
Brigham Young University is standing by its decision to suspend a top player from its men's basketball team, saying it will not "relax" the school's honor code and make an exception for Brandon Davies.
The school's athletic department announced Thursday that Davies, the Cougars' leading rebounder from Provo, is no longer part of the third-ranked team.
Officials still haven't said how Davies broke the honor code but sources told the Salt Lake City Tribune that he was suspended for violating a provision forbidding premarital sex.
"We understand that people across the country might think this is foreign to them and they're shocked and surprised but for us, we deal with this quite often," athletic director Tom Holmoe said at a press conference Thursday.
Davies, a sophomore, is still a student at BYU but it's unclear whether he will be allowed to play next season, Fox13Now.com reports.
After an ugly 82-64 loss to New Mexico on Wednesday -- the worst setback by a top-three team in six years -- coach Dave Rose insisted his team would recover from the shakeup.
"This team has found ways to win games all year and I have all the confidence in the world we'll continue to do that," he said. "We'll get better. We'll find ways to deal with the loss of a player that we've relied on. We found ways to deal with the loss of Chris Collinsworth when he got knee surgery. We'll find ways to get around this."
The Cougars (27-3, 13-2 Mountain West Conference) had climbed the Top 25 by winning 17 of 18 behind player of the year favorite Jimmer Fredette. But that surge came to a crashing halt against New Mexico, which has won four straight against BYU.
"They played well and beat us," Rose said. "Now we're faced with a new challenge and that is to try to respond after we've been beat."
Holmoe said making Davies' dismissal public was not an intent "to throw him to the wolves." But, he added: "We won't relax the honor code for a situation that has to do with a basketball player."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Connecticut man believed to be responsible for rapes and other attacks on 17 women in several states since 1997 and dubbed the East Coast Rapist has been arrested, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
The suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was captured Friday afternoon based on a lead from authorities in Virginia, U.S. Marshal Joe Faughnan said.
U.S. marshals detained the man in New Haven, one of New England's biggest cities, and he was being held by police for questioning, police spokesman Officer Joseph Avery said. No charges had been filed against the man, who has a New Haven address and is about 40 years old, he said.
"We're still working the case," Avery said. "At this point we're trying to put everything together, and there's been no formal charges at this time."
The East Coast Rapist eluded authorities for years despite committing a string of high-risk outdoor attacks, law enforcement officials say.
In a recent effort to generate new leads in the case, authorities posted sketches of the suspect on electronic billboards in states where attacks occurred -- Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland and Rhode Island -- and in neighboring states.
Police also set up a website about the case at eastcoastrapist.com. Detective John Kelly in Fairfax County, Va., said the website generated 44,000 hits in 12 hours after it was launched late last month.
The attacker wore a mask or hooded sweatshirt to conceal his face in some attacks, investigators say. He typically approached women outdoors on foot and threatened them with a knife, screwdriver or a handgun, they say.
The last known attack occurred on Halloween night in 2009, when two teenagers on their way home from trick-or-treating in Woodbridge, Va., were raped, authorities say.
The cases have been linked by DNA. Investigators say they have cleared more than 700 suspects.
The FBI began a national digital billboard campaign to solve crimes in 2007. Since then, authorities say, at least 39 cases have been solved as a result of tips from the public.
Those cases include the identification of a serial bank robbery suspect within 24 hours after billboards went up in several southern states and the arrest of a man dubbed the Granddad Bandit a week after authorities received a tip from someone who saw a billboard.
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In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely
A Revolutionary War-era letter stolen nearly 60 years ago was returned to the Massachusetts Archives, the Boston Globe reports.
The two-page letter was penned on May 25, 1775, by Joseph Warren, a major general and war hero who wrote about the colonists' victory at Fort Ticonderoga -- a historic battle that was influential in forcing the British troops out of Boston, according to the newspaper.
"It is an important part of our history and was probably the last official letter he wrote before he was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill,'' Secretary of State William F. Galvin told the Boston Globe. "It ties together a lot of significant historical events."
The letter was reportedly stolen about 60 years ago when the archives were kept in the basement of the State House.
It eventually made its way into the hands of a collector, the Globe reported, and when it was discovered after the collector's death while his estate was being liquidated, the state negotiated to buy it back for $8,000. Authorities don't suspect the collector was involved with the theft 60 years ago.
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Salazar said.
But Sen. Landrieu noted that before the blowout, the government's own experts said production in the Gulf of Mexico this year would be 1.77 million barrels a day. Now that projection has dropped to 1.39 million.
In 2012, the government originally projected production of 1.82 million barrels a day, but now sees a decline to 1.14 million barrels a day.
That is a drop of 680,000 barrels a day, which equals about half of the global exports from Libya. Unrest in Libya has led to concerns over a disruption in that country’s exports, creating fears that are driving oil prices higher.
At the same time, some Republican senators charge the Environmental Protection Agency is out to kill the coal industry.
More than half the nation's electricity comes from coal, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell, R-Ky., accuses the EPA of sitting on mine applications, noting 79 are now in bureaucratic limbo.
"The EPA has turned the permitting process into a back-door means of shutting down coal mines by sitting on permits indefinitely, thus removing any regulatory certainty," he said.
So McConnell, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others introduced a bill to force the EPA to use or lose its veto over mine applications within 60 days.
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A peculiar thing was happening in Iowa. The handicapped parking spaces always seemed to be full.
So state Republican Rep. Dave Tjepkes, teaming up with another lawmaker, set about to figure out why. What they found stunned them.
Nearly a half-million parking permits were in circulation in Iowa, covering about 270,000 people. That's close to 10 percent of Iowa's population.
"The numbers kind of speak for themselves," Tjepkes said.
Claiming some Iowans are clearly abusing the system, Tjepkes and Democratic Rep. Jim Lykam have proposed a new bill to bring some order to the handicapped permit free-for-all. As it turns out, Iowa doesn't have much of a system for checking up on people who've been issued a permit.
So if a permit holder no longer needs it, or dies, that pass can stay in circulation forever.
The statewide statistics, released last month, effectively confirmed for Tjepkes stories about how people were holding on to parking permits long after the loved ones who used them died.
"The joke we have is they pass them down to the future generations," he said.
But for lawmakers and disability advocates, it's no laughing matter. Those who have heart conditions or respiratory problems, or who are confined to a wheelchair, need those parking spots.
Tjepkes' and Lykam's proposal, which recently passed out of committee in the House, would make all new handicapped permits valid for five years. At that point, they would have to be renewed.
The solution, though, doesn't solve the problem of the more than 460,000 permits floating around Iowa, not all of which are legitimate.
Iowa officials were worried it would cost too much money to require everyone to renew their permits. Just mailing out the notifications could cost the state more than $100,000, one lobbyist told a local newspaper.
Sylvia Piper, executive director of Disability Rights Iowa, expressed concern that the new proposal would "grandfather" in the old permits. She said she still thinks those permits should be "managed" better.
"We have serious violations of those spots for people who truly need to have those parking spaces available to them," she said.
Piper said she routinely monitors handicapped parking spots, confronting delivery truck drivers and people without permits who park in them. She said she hopes the legislative proposal makes a difference.
"It could be your mother. It could be your grandfather who is eventually going to need this," she said.
Tjepkes acknowledged the state can't claw back the questionable permits that may be out there. But by raising awareness about the problem, he hopes to guilt-trip any cheaters.
"Hopefully, their conscience will bother them to a degree that they will refrain from doing that," he said.
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