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Lady Gaga Tops Twitter with 25 Million Followers, Barack Obama On Distant Second

Lady Gaga Tops Twitter with 25 Million Followers, Barack Obama On Distant Second

Lady Gaga’s minion of little monsters has helped make her the most famous person and the reigning queen in the Twitterverse! The controversial 26-year-old singer is the first personality to have over 25 million followers, whom she calls “monsters,” on Twitter. The milestone of her social media “fan page” didn’t go unnoticed by the pop […]

More Dirty Details on New Orleans Saints’ Bounty Scandal Emerged

More Dirty Details on New Orleans Saints’ Bounty Scandal Emerged

The NFL Bounty Scandal holds a copy of a “ledger” that recorded detailed weekly earnings for players in the New Orleans Saints adhering to the bounty system, according to two sources with knowledge on the investigation. The ledger, which shows both money earned for “cart-offs” and “whacks” and deductions for “mental errors,” also points to the […]

UCLA Athletic Scholarship of Justin Combs , Son of Rap Mogul Diddy, in Question

UCLA Athletic Scholarship of Justin Combs , Son of Rap Mogul Diddy, in Question

Not more than a year after Diddy’s son, Justin Combs, committed to play football at UCLA, some people are raising questions over whether the well off freshman should turn over his $54,000 scholarship to students who need it more. In an interview with CNN, education contributor Dr. Steve Perry defended Combs’ merit-based scholarship, saying he […]

9 Year-Old Boy Who Donated Disney Trip to A Killed Soldier’s Family Wins Vacation of His Own

9 Year-Old Boy Who Donated Disney Trip to A Killed Soldier's Family Wins Vacation of His Own

Nine-year-old Brendan Haas, who spent three months trading things so he could win a vacation to Disney World and then donated it to a girl whose father was killed in Afghanistan, was surprised with his own Walt Disney World trip. To reward Brendan for his generosity, the Disney Company awarded his family with an all-expense […]

“Tobacco–I’m Not Buying It” Campaign — A Success!

"Tobacco—I'm Not Buying It" Campaign – A Success!

Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin today announced the winners of the Surgeon General’s Video Contest for Youth and Young Adults. Each of the winners created a video based on the contest theme, “Tobacco — I’m Not Buying It.”  In conjunction with the Surgeon General’s Report, “Preventing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults,” released earlier […]

Life After Steve Jobs: Apple Gears Up for New Products

Life After Steve Jobs: Apple Gears Up for New Products

Apple Inc. chief executive Tim Cook discusses about big expectations for the world’s largest technology company, saying in an interview that the company is preparing to release some “incredible” new products When asked about possibilities such as whether Apple would develop a smaller iPhone or a television, he gave no details, vowing to “double down” […]

Gulf Coast Tourism Rebounds after BP Oil Spill

Gulf Coast Tourism Rebounds after BP Oil Spill

The Gulf Coast is now again a hot destination two years after the massive BP Plc oil spill made the region a tourist dead zone, with the petroleum giant pumping more than $150 million into promotions to help the region recover. In New Orleans, about 150 miles northeast of where BP’s well blew up on […]

2011-2012 Flu Season Draws to a Close

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Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the final full influenza surveillance report for the 2011-2012 season. The report — titled “FluView” — shows that influenza activity in the United States is minimal across most of the country, wrapping up a season that began late and was mild compared to most previous seasons […]

Justin Bieber Wanted by Police for Paparazzi Scuffle

Justin Bieber Wanted by Police for Paparazzi Scuffle

Justin Bieber’s legal headaches are getting worse as police are trying to put pieces together as to what happened in the alleged physical altercation. The performer’s alleged May 27 scuffle with the paparazzi at the Calabasas Shopping Center in Calabasas, California just got a lot more real, as the official police report from the Los Angeles […]

Data-Stealing Cyber Virus Discovered in Iran

Data-Stealing Cyber Virus Discovered in Iran

Security experts have recently discovered a high-end computer virus in Iran and the Middle East believed to be deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus dubbed as Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm […]

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