TheBlaze's S.E. Cupp battled liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on the gun issue Friday, arguing against gun restrictions and schooling him on basic statistics on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." More »S.E. Cupp vs. Michael Moore on Guns: ‘I Just Happen to Be Informed’
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police say Predrag Danilovic, who played for the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks, is seriously injured after being stabbed in a fight. More »Ex-NBA player stabbed, seriously injured in fight
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After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday. “That’s why I like getting out of the Washington echo chamber whenever I can – because too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same... More »Obama Pivots to Jobs Tour
(adds quotes, detail) By Gennady Fyodorov MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) - CSKA Moscow sealed the Russian title with a game to spare following a scrappy 0-0 home draw with Kuban Krasnodar on Saturday. The lone point was enough to give the army side their first league crown since 2006 and 11th in the club's history as they now lead last season's champions Zenit St Petersburg by six points. Zenit, who have two games left and face Volga Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday, could not overtake CSKA because they have a fewer number of total victories. CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky paid tribute to his team's fans. ... More »Soccer-CSKA Moscow seal Russian title with 0-0 draw
CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: More »Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred. Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated forces in neighboring Syria. ... More »Eight killed, 10 policemen kidnapped in Iraq's Sunni heartland
STOCKHOLM, May 18 (Reuters) - A Swedish ticket agency accused of profiting from a charity soccer match for a deceased player has said it will make a donation to a fund set up in his memory. AIK had staged a charity match with Dynamo Zagreb after their Croatian goalkeeper Ivan Turina was found dead in his bed on May 2 at the age of 32. The autopsy was inconclusive. A report in the newspaper Aftonbladet suggesting that Ticnet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ticketmaster, had profited from the match sparked a storm or protest from soccer fans in Sweden. ... More »Soccer-Swedish ticket agency to make donation to player fund
1. CONGRESS GRILLS IRS OFFICIAL Congress heard testimony from Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who was forced to resign by President Obama after it was revealed that the agency flagged Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny. Miller told the House Ways and Means Committee that while the agency's actions were "obnoxious," they weren't motivated by partisanship. [New York Times] ……………………………………………………………………&hellip... More »10 things you need to know today: May 18, 2013
By Ed Osmond LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - England's pace attack sliced through the New Zealand tail to dismiss the touring side for 207 on the third morning of the first test at Lord's on Saturday. James Anderson, fresh from taking his 300th test wicket on Friday, completed figures of five for 47 and Steven Finn took four for 63 as England secured a first-innings lead of 25 runs. Alastair Cook survived a huge appeal for caught behind off the second ball of England's second innings bowled by Trent Boult and he and Nick Compton took the hosts to lunch at 12 for no wicket. ... More »Cricket-Anderson and Finn rip through New Zealand batting
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. More »Hard-line Afghan MPs block law protecting women
SYDNEY, May 18 (Reuters) - Hooker Tatafu Polota-Nau fractured his forearm and several other Wallabies were injured as the New South Wales Waratahs beat Super Rugby leaders ACT Brumbies 28-22 at Sydney's Olympic Stadium on Saturday. On the eve of the announcement of the preliminary squad for three tests against the British and Irish Lions, likely selections Polota-Nau, flanker George Smith (knee) as well as centres Christian Lealiifano (leg), Rob Horne (eye) and Pat McCabe (leg) left the field injured. ... More »Rugby-Several Wallabies injured as Waratahs beat Brumbies
In a lively and intimate interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters, actor-comedian Tracy Morgan said that he was inspired early on by Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, as well as “Jackie Gleason, watching ‘The Honeymooners,’ and then, on top of that, Carol Burnett.”... More »Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor … Carol Burnett? Tracy Morgan on His Influences
In a lively and intimate interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters, actor-comedian Tracy Morgan said that he was inspired early on by Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, as well as “Jackie Gleason, watching ‘The Honeymooners,’ and then, on top of that, Carol Burnett.”... More »Eddie Murphy, Carol Burnett: Tracy Morgan on His Influences
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By Miriam Arghandiwal and Ibrahimi Aziz KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago. President Hamid Karzai approved the law by decree in 2009 and parliament's endorsement was required. But a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly resulted in debate being deferred to a later date. ... More »Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive women's law
By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States chided Russia for sending missiles to the Syrian government as plans for a peace conference promoted by Washington and Moscow were hit by diplomatic rifts over its scope and purpose. Sectarian bloodshed in neighboring Iraq during Friday prayers, a hacking attack on a Western newspaper by sympathizers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and defiant comments by a rebel commander filmed eating a slain soldier's flesh were all reminders of how the two-year-old civil war is metastising. ... More »U.S. chides Russia over missiles as peace plans suffer
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings. France's official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the Constitutional Council gave it the go-ahead on Friday. The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservatives in France, where allowing gay marriage is one of the biggest social reforms since abolition of the death penalty in 1981. ... More »France's Hollande signs gay marriage law
ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. "We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience," said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters waving red flags and calling for more workers' rights and better contracts. ... More »Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) - Title winners and runners-upsince the Russian championship was founded in 1992 after thecollapse of the Soviet Union: Champions Runners-up 1992 Spartak Moscow Alania Vladikavkaz 1993 Spartak Moscow Rotor Volgograd 1994 Spartak Moscow Dynamo Moscow 1995 Alania Vladikavkaz Lokomotiv Moscow 1996 Spartak Moscow Alania Vladikavkaz 1997 Spartak Moscow Rotor Volgograd 1998 Spartak Moscow CSKA Moscow 1999 Spartak Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow 2000 Spartak Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow 2001 Spartak Moscow Lokomotiv Moscow 2002 Lokomotiv Moscow CSKA Moscow 2003 CSKA Moscow Zenit St ... More »Soccer-Russian league champions since 1992
MOSCOW, May 18 (Reuters) - CSKA Moscow sealed the Russian title with a game to spare through a scrappy 0-0 home draw with Kuban Krasnodar on Saturday. The lone point was enough to give the army side their first league crown since 2006 and 11th in the club's history as they now lead last season's champions Zenit St Petersburg by six points. Zenit, who have two games left and face Volga Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday, could not overtake CSKA because they have a fewer number of total victories. (Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov; Editing by John Mehaffey) More »Soccer-CSKA Moscow seal Russian title with 0-0 draw against Kuban
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