With the revelation that Guvinator Arnold Schwarzenegger had a love child 10 years ago with a married woman on his staff, there is only one question on the lips of Greater Los Angeles Realtors: Where will Maria move? California's former first lady moved out of the family's Brentwood mansion after her husband told her of the affair, and speculation about her real estate plans began immediately. (Hey, this is a city where fatalities on the freeway are often remembered by the extent of the traffic jam they caused.)
After a night of partying, it's not uncommon for college students to wake up with a fuzzy recollection of the evening's events. But a new study suggests that binge drinking may impair memory in young people long after the hangover has worn off, perhaps because of damage to the hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning.
SLAVE LAKE, Alberta (AP) — Wildfires blazing through a northern Canadian town have forced the evacuation of nearly 7,000 people.
Police say nearly one-third of buildings were destroyed after strong winds suddenly turned the flames on Slave Lake, Alberta. The fires kept raging Monday.
All residents were ordered to leave Sunday afternoon, but evacuation proved difficult as smoke and fast-moving flames blocked some of the highways.
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) played no role in the process by which health care waivers were granted to a number of businesses in her district, according to the company that actually requested the waivers on behalf of its clients.
Flex-Plan Services, a third-party benefits administrator based in Bellevue, Wash., made the formal applications for waivers from President Barack Obama's health care law, said it founder, Hilarie Aitken.
"I don't tend to vote Democratic, but I feel bad for Nancy Pelosi," Aitken told HuffPost. "She's really being thrown under the bus here. It has nothing to do with her at all. This was just a political power play. The way that they are shaping this -- that the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, [is behind] all these waivers being granted, and how could she do this -- it's all slanted and wrong".
ABC has unveiled the preview clip of their new rendition of the classic TV show, "Charlie's Angels." The new series stars Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachel Taylor as the special operatives for the mysterious, unseen Charlie; the original, a cultural phenomenon when it began in 1976, starred Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith in its first rendition.
There was, of course, a series of hit movies based on the series in the early 2000's starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu.
NEW YORK — Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall.
Allen is no stranger to the format, having collaborated with May and David Mamet for "Death Defying Acts," three effervescent one-act comedies that debuted in 1995.
Revenues at the world's biggest investment banks fell 5 percent to $52 billion in the first quarter of 2011, hit by Middle Eastern unrest, natural disasters, volatile commodities and economic uncertainty, a consultancy said in a report on the industry.
The survey of the world's top 10 banks by London consultancy Coalition attributed much of the decline from a year earlier to an 11 percent slump in revenues from fixed income, the biggest contributor to the banks' earnings.
Sure the ball's made of plastic and has holes in it, but watch the video below and you'll see some pitches that would make even the best pro batter's knees buckle.
From some amazing inside-out sidearm slings to a few pitches that have more up-and-down movement than an elevator, check out the video below to see what fantasy baseball really looks like.
WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) played no role in the process by which healthcare waivers were granted to a number of businesses in her district, according to the company that actually requested the waivers on behalf of its clients.
Flex-Plan Services, a third party administrator based in Bellevue, Wash., made the formal applications for waivers from President Barack Obama's health care law, its founder, Hilarie Aitken told The Huffington Post.
"I don't tend to vote Democratic, but I feel bad for Nancy Pelosi," said Aitken. "She's really being thrown under the bus here. It has nothing to do with her at all. This was just a political power play. The way that they are shaping this -- that the minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, [is behind] all these waivers being granted, and how could she do this -- it's all slanted and wrong".
EW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The brutal job market brought on by the recession has been hard on everyone, but especially devastating on the youngest members of the labor force. About 60% of recent graduates have not been able to find a full-time job in their chosen profession, according to job placement firm Adecco.
PHILADELPHIA — Flyers forward Dan Carcillo has been suspended without pay or the first two games of next season for confronting officials during this year's playoffs.
NHL senior vice president Mike Murphy announced the ruling Tuesday. Carcillo acknowledged during a hearing that he regrets his actions.
DENVER -- An immigrant suspected of being in the country illegally could receive $90,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully held in a suburban Denver jail for 47 days, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday.
Luis Quezada, 37, agreed to a $40,000 settlement with the Jefferson County sheriff's office, which held him at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in May 2009, according to the lawsuit.
WASHINGTON -- More than 1,000 activists descended on JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday, according to community organizers present at the event, demanding action on the company's foreclosure practices and calling for an end to the company's investment in a company promoting genocide in Darfur.
Neighborhood activists, religious leaders, outraged homeowners and political activists presented the company's shareholders with stories of alleged abuse and neglect by JPMorgan Chase, particularly from Chase's mortgage wing, according to activists present at the event, who provided HuffPost with several photos. The shareholder meeting and demonstration were held at a JPMorgan Chase building in Columbus, Ohio, a city ravaged by the foreclosure crisis and heavy unemployment.
George Goehl, Executive Director of National Peoples' Action, a coalition of anti-foreclosure activists, said his group briefly blocked all five entrances to the building in an effort to disrupt the shareholder meeting and show their outrage over Chase's foreclosure policies. Goehl said NPA had bused in two separate groups of 500 activists, mostly from midwestern states.
A new study published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that women who participate in mind-body training have a significantly higher pregnancy rate than women who don't undergo training.
A suspected cannibal, believed to be behind the appearance of dismembered body parts found throughout Moscow, was arrested in Moscow Tuesday after authorities discovered half-eaten human body parts stored in his refrigerator.
As RIA Novosti is reporting, police uncovered a stew made from a human liver at the suspect's apartment in east Moscow. The liver is now believed to be part of the same corpse as various body parts -- including a decapitated head, feet, and two arms -- which have been found scattered throughout the city in recent weeks. "Detectives established the identity of the dead body by taking fingerprints," police spokesman Alexei Savelyev is quoted as saying. "After that, police tracked down the suspected offender through a circle of the deceased's friends."
The AFP identifies the suspect as Nikolai Shadrin, who "has been a patient in a psychiatric asylum." Shadrin's victim is named as Ilya Yegorov, a 40-year-old Moscow resident. The two men are said to have been acquaintances, and Shadrin "admitted he had eaten part of [Yegorov's] liver," reports the Guardian.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) expressed appreciation for Twitter, though stressed the importance of exercising caution when it comes to "dangerous aspects" of the social media platform during a speech in Washington, DC on Monday night, Politico reports.
"I hope you understand and appreciate that this means of communication has also sometimes got some dangerous aspects associated with it too," explained the Arizona senator. "Misinformation and things that are injurious to people, and we have to see that some self-discipline is exercised. I look at a lot of tweets that come back to me, and a large number of them call for my early demise, usually in a painful manner."
McCain invoked "Snooki" -- who rose to fame on MTV hit reality show "Jersey Shore" -- to make his case on the matter at the opening night of the Al Jazeera U.S. Forum at the Newseum. He said that a tweet he wrote last year signaling he wouldn't tax the super-tan star's tanning bed during the health care reform debate garnered more attention than a statement he made about renewing the START Treaty.
NEW YORK — In a recent episode of "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin's character, Jack Donaghy, went through a kind of midlife crises, splitting into four alternate versions of his self.
One, "sideways Jack," chastised Donaghy for allowing an intended six-month stop in TV to turn into five years, leaving him stalled and no longer a "shark."
ClickHERE for my breakdown of the Bulls-Heat series.
The Western Conference Finals is a classic battle between an entertaining upstart and grizzled veteran: Oklahoma City is young and fearless while Dallas is elderly and plainly aware.
Back in the heady days of youthful British revolt and anarchy-inspired punk, bands like the Sex Pistols railed against the Royal Family with regularity, hurling angry, disaffected insults over chords at the Queen and producing thrashing graphic design works to destroy her image, if only on record sleeves and grungy shows and exhibits.
The era of anger has, in large part, passed, with the world tuning into the spectacle of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding earlier this month, the gloss of its fairytale connotations and illustrious history transfixing billions. Still waving the anti-Royal flag, though, was famed Smiths frontman Morrissey, who ripped the institution, saying they served no purpose whatsoever.
Now, weeks later, the rocker is truly taking out the proverbial knives; in a new essay for the website Hot Press, he compared Queen Elizabeth to two of the worst Middle Eastern dictators.
Beyond the tabloid speculation of who spent a late night getting close at an LA club with whom, Hollywood interchanges its stars and starlets in on screen relationships in dizzying regularity, searching for that perfect pair with the ever-elusive on-screen chemistry to become iconic.
Ryan Gosling's dramatic turn in "The Notebook" with Rachel McAdams established him as a veritable star, but didn't necessarily make the two a go-to pair. Carey Mulligan teamed up with Shia LeBeouf for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," but the two didn't exactly strike it rich. But as two of the leading stars of their time, critical and mainstream darlings alike, they're both promising puzzle pieces for which studios will continually work to find a snug match.
And now, "Drive." The indie thriller in which Gosling plays a stunt driver and getaway man also functions as a love story, and in this new clip, we see the two meet for the first time. It's got all the elements of a classic Hollywood romance: a chance meeting, a long car ride down an empty road, entrancing music and a lot of awkward smiles.
For some environmental advocates -- including prominent supporters like the actor Harrison Ford and the band the Dixie Chicks -- Conservation International, the nearly 25-year-old environmental organization based in Arlington, Va. is one of the most important conservation groups of the last generation.
Critics of the group, however, are unimpressed. To them, C.I. is hopelessly compromised, and it represents the worst of what the old-guard environmental movement has become: fat, wealthy, and addicted to the largesse of polluting corporate donors.
In the two weeks since Navy SEALs killed Osama Bin Laden, U.S. officials have waged a curious campaign to belittle him. First they implied that he had used a woman as a human shield. Then they released videos suggesting that he had dyed his beard to look younger. Then they said they'd found pornography in his compound.
The smear campaign seems ridiculous. Bin Laden was a mass murderer. Why bother calling him a sissy and a voyeur?
Foodily, the recipe site that allows users to "browse recipes like a magazine," has unveiled its latest magic trick: nutrition information.
Foodily's recipes are culled from multiple web sources, ranging from blogs to newspapers to magazines. By integrating the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, now Foodily offers information about total calories, calories per gram, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, carbohydrates, sugar, protein, cholesterol, sodium and fiber.
While including nutritional information is nothing new for recipe sites, Foodily details if the total fat is low, medium or high and also allows users to search for low carb or high fiber options.
Even before the shocking events of the past few days, the international policy community had been contemplating a successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the International Monetary Fund.
SAN DIEGO -- A California Republican congressman says the Navy has informed him it plans to name a cargo ship after the late farmworker activist Cesar Chavez – a decision he says is political and unfairly overlooks military war heroes.
Rep. Duncan Hunter said Tuesday he learned of the matter from Navy officials, who have not made their plans public yet.
When the recent quake hit Japan, I was on board a ship in Indonesia, watching in horror as the disaster played out. Since then, as a diver and underwater photographer, I have been thinking a lot about the devastation--especially the radioactive water and waste that have entered Japan's coastal waters, threatening the marine wildlife that calls these waters home. While the leakage has stopped for the moment, the long term consequences remain unknown.
SAN DIEGO — A California Republican congressman says the Navy has informed him it plans to name a cargo ship after the late farmworker activist Cesar Chavez – a decision he says is political and unfairly overlooks military war heroes.
Rep. Duncan Hunter said Tuesday he learned of the matter from Navy officials, who have not made their plans public yet.
NEW YORK — "American Idol" is re-establishing its dominance heading toward the conclusion of another season.
The two airings of Fox's contest were the most-watched programs in prime-time television last week, the Nielsen Co. said. It's a familiar role for the show, which has held up well in the ratings despite losing Simon Cowell and adding Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler as judges.
WASHINGTON -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker is steadily remaking the Wisconsin government, implementing conservative ideals and quietly consolidating power under the office of the governor. His actions range from the much-publicized move to strip collective bargaining rights from powerful public unions to the less-noticed efforts to add more political appointees at state agencies and take away responsibilities from Wisconsin's democratically elected secretary of state.
Supporters have praised what Walker and his allies are doing as a long-overdue steps to cut spending and unnecessary bureaucracy. But critics fear a loss of public input and transparency in the way the state government operates.
"It's a power grab," said Doug La Follette, Wisconsin's Democratic Secretary of State. "[Walker] wants to control everything."
LONDON — An Egyptian princess who lived more than 3,500 years ago is the oldest known person to have had clogged arteries, dispelling the myth that heart disease is a product of modern society, a new study says.
To determine how common heart disease was in ancient Egypt, scientists performed computer scans on 52 mummies in Cairo and the United States. Among those that still had heart tissue, 44 had chunks of calcium stuck to their arteries – indicating clogging.
Bay to Breakers is a San Francisco footrace and has remained beloved time-honored tradition for 100 years, but the annual footrace is known for much more than its athleticism. Although officials have cracked down on some of the debauchery that takes place at the race, participants in the race have come to expect drugs, alcohol and nudity to be as commonplace as spandex shorts and headbands at a normal race.
Ross Everett found Bay to Breakers and its colorful characters to be too funny to pass up, and brought a camera crew to interview some of the more outrageous runners. The video is NSFW, so don't say we didn't warn you if you see a little too much hippie flesh.
SEOUL, South Korea -- Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied Tuesday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brothels, with some unsuccessfully attempting to set themselves on fire.
A crowd of about 400 people, mostly women wearing baseball caps, masks and sunglasses, chanted slogans like, "Guarantee the right to live!" during the four-hour rally.
At one point, about 20 protesters in their underwear and covered in body and face paint doused themselves in flammable liquid in an apparent attempt to burn themselves, but others stopped them from lighting any flames. Some of the women then sat in the street and wept and screamed, while other protesters consoled them.
It seems like every week is craft beer week in Denver. But, this American Craft Beer Week, May 16-22, is an official celebration of all things craft beer and the 1,700 craft and microbreweries currently in operation around the United States. Of course, the "Napa Valley of Beer" won't be outdone and all week long mile high city is ringing in American Craft Beer Week right with events at some our most award-winning breweries.
Monday, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a letter to Bishops worldwide with suggestions for dealing with cases of sex abuse.
JACKSON, Miss. -- The family of a former Mississippi football player has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the university, coach Houston Nutt and the NCAA.
Bennie Abram was 20 years old when he collapsed during the first day of formal offseason workouts on Feb. 19, 2010, and later died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Miss. An autopsy revealed Abram died from complications associated with sickle cell trait.
WASHINGTON — Huck's out. So is The Donald. Haley pulled the plug a few weeks back, following John Thune and Mike Pence. These days it seems the race for the GOP presidential nomination is more about who isn't running than who is.
Is it the challenge of beating an incumbent president or the state of the Republican Party?
PARIS — She's a gutsy, charismatic television journalist who long had more star power than even her political heavyweight husband.
Anne Sinclair, wife of jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is known as the "quiet force" who gave up her career to clear the path for her husband's, and whose celebrity, ambition and drive helped propel him to international renown and the threshold of the French presidency.
Former GM executive Roy Roberts took over as the emergency manager of Detroit's public schools yesterday. And so far, he doesn't seem intent on bulldozing anything -- yet.
Governor Rick Snyder (R) appointed the former GM vice president to the one-year position May 5. Roberts said he would carry out many of the already planned emergency measures, such as closing 14 schools and converting up to 45 traditional schools into charter schools. And though he has the power to do so -- thanks to Michigan's wide-ranging emergency manager law -- he said, according to the Detroit Free Press, that he has no plans to reconstitute the school board or cancel union contracts. For now, he wants to staff up and make sure students have "choices and changes."
As school districts around the country face crippling budget shortfalls, Detroit's schools have been hit especially hard with staggering debt, pink-slipped teachers, school closures, high absenteeism, low college readiness and an uncertain future.
It's the kind of thing that's just believable enough to be true, just disgusting enough to be shocking (and amusing), and just official-looking to be...well, official. There's only one problem - it's a total hoax.
CHICAGO — A judge at Rod Blagojevich's corruption retrial suggested Tuesday that attorneys for the impeached governor have sought to broach impermissible legal arguments and reiterated that he intends to keep them on a tight leash.
"There is a real concern that you are throwing stuff at the wall and seeing if it sticks," Judge James Zagel told the defense. "I don't blame you for doing any of this, but I am not going along with it."
After all the rumors, photo evidence finally confirms that Gwyneth Paltrow will grace the cover of the June issue of Bon Appetit. Food blogger Pim Techamuanvivit tweeted the photo of a smiling Gwyneth in a light blue dress this morning and The Feast has an exclusive look at the June issue.
In his first completely redesigned issue, new editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport is signaling at least a small shift in editorial focus by having a celebrity on the cover. The Gwyneth feature, titled "The Girl Can Cook" consists of an article, photo spread and several recipes. The June issue also features Chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli's suggestions for Copenhagen and British chef Fergus Henderson and his wife Margot's instructions and recipes for a Sunday roast. Check out The Feast's preview of the June issue here.
Overall, the magazine definitely has a much more of-the-moment feel. So, who is next? Sheryl Crow or Eva Longoria?
The Nazi compound high in the Santa Monica Mountains may not be a secret to born and bred Angelenos (it's a sightseeing stop on the Rustic Canyon hike), but it's still one of those strange, "only in LA" artifacts that underscores the city's rich and mysterious history.
Travel Channel's "Off Limits," a show about uncovering cities' hidden secrets, focused on Los Angeles for last night's series premiere. With historian Randy Young, host Don Wildman reveals that Los Angeles was supposed to be the "seat of American fascism" from where Adolph Hitler could rule the United States and restore order -- at least according to landowners Winona and Norman Stevens. The Stevens began construction on the "Murphy Ranch" in 1933, a fifty-acre compound in the hills that was built to be a self-sustaining nazi community. Old blueprints reveal plans for a huge mansion complete with a 400,000 gallon water tank and a concrete-walled power station (the latter two are intact but have been defaced by graffiti).
Coming across an ornate, wrought iron gate, Young reveals that it was designed by renowned African-American architect Paul Revere Williams. He quips, "They may have been Nazis, but they were Nazis with taste."
The controversial former ethnic studies professor from CU-Boulder Ward Churchill is scheduled [confirm] to give a speech in Grand Junction over the Memorial Day weekend.
An alternative media group, Confluence Media Collective, invited Ward Churchill to speak for $350 plus lodging and say they will allow him to speak on any topic he chooses.
Churchill was fired in 2007 after allegations of research misconduct. A university review of his work concluded he had plagiarized some writings.
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