By Josh Fatzick A court in Virginia awarded a man $500,000 in damages after his doctors brutally mocked him while he was sedated for a routine colonoscopy. Before going under for the surgery, the man — only identified in court documents as D.B. — started recording audio on his phone. When he woke up and…
By Peter Fricke On Monday, the federal agency that oversees trade policy recommended dismissing patent infringement claims that could lead to a ban on U.S. sales of the Samsung Galaxy line of phones. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) staff filed a pretrial brief on the first day of a public hearing the agency is…
By Connor D. Wolf It’s been a decade since the city of New London, Conn. forcibly took the Fort Trumbull neighborhood for what became private-development, and now all that remains is an empty lot. In 1998, the area surrounding the waterfront neighborhood saw an increased surge of economic development. This prompted city officials to decide the Fort Trumbull…
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. military conducted secret experiments on thousands of veterans during World War II, exposing them to mustard gas. Despite endless promises to take care of the test subjects, the Department of Veterans Affairs has seemingly abandoned them. Mustard gas, though frequently used in World War I, rarely showed up on the…
By Blake Neff Amazon has reacted to a surge in purchases of Confederate flags in the wake of the Charleston shooting by announcing it will yank all Confederate flag merchandise from its website. The decision came after EBay and Wal-Mart made similar decisions. However, plenty of other items some may consider “offensive” are still easily…
By Peter Fricke Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s plan to “blow up” the tax code has generally been applauded by conservatives, but some are worried it would create a European-style value-added tax. Paul, who is also a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, unveiled his proposal in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal last week, proposing to repeal…
Superstar athlete Derek Jeter made approximately $265 million during his time playing for the New York Yankees, but he’s not letting that affect his sense of male/female equality. The New York Daily News reported that while Jeter is vacationing in Italy with his model girlfriend Hannah Davis, he apparently made her split the tab. When…
By Josh Fatzick Amazon is joining other big retailers, like Walmart and Sears, that announced they will ban sales of the Confederate flag, and other flag-related items from their shelves, despite the fact that sales appear to be booming on the website. TIME Deputy Tech Editor Alex Fitzpatrick reported that the online retail giant will ban all…
By Blake Neff Published: June 23, 2015 In the past week, a Baltimore woman has captured headlines, and over $40,000 in donations, over her claim that a Christian neighbor anonymously attacked her “relentlessly gay” yard decorations. But circumstantial evidence exists that suggests the incident could be a hoax to defraud people of their money. The story,…
Editor of Rare news magazine Jack Hunter appeared on CNN this morning to argue in favor of the removal of the Confederate flag from the state grounds in South Carolina. Famous for having formerly been known as the “Southern Avenger,” Hunter issued his mea culpa initially in a column on the Daily Beast, and described…