http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132362653 This year, Floridians learned that burials at sea don’t work if the body doesn’t sink, giant snail mucus can make you sick and that an underwire bra can stop a lawyer from visiting her client in prison. Florida lived up to its reputation for being an odd state in …

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/29/woman-arrested-in-spain-for-faking-her-kidnap-to-see-if-her-husband-would-pay-the-20k-ransom-115875-22812555/ A WOMAN staged her abduction just to see if her husband would pay £20,000 to get her back. But she was arrested in the car park of a shopping centre on her way to the sales — just 30 minutes after picking up the bag with the ransom money. …

http://www.stylelist.com/2010/12/23/kate-middleton-plump-critics-slam-royal-engagement-coin/ Critics are screaming “off with their heads” at Britain’s Royal Mint for renderings of Kate Middleton and Prince William on a commemorative wedding coin. Some observers charge that it makes the queen-to-be look “plump,” and has her royal fiancé sporting “Elvis” hair. That’s not all: UK newspapers are suggesting …

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341902/FBI-launches-criminal-probe-racist-police-abuse-Hispanics-Connecticut-town.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Civil rights and criminal investigations have been launched into a Connecticut town over allegations of racist police harassment that has led to an exodus of Hispanic residents. Racial profiling allegations began two years ago in East Haven, a predominantly wealthy Italian-American seaside town around 70 miles northeast of New …

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-pastor-charged-robbing-parishioners-home-luxury-goods/story?id=12492694 A Dallas pastor who is accused of climbing through a window to steal fur coats and purses from her parishioner’s home on Christmas Eve claims that she was just trying to protect the property from burglars. Sandy McGriff, 52, was apprehended by Dallas police in the afternoon on Christmas …

Ana Kasparian (co-host of The Young Turks) explains how online scammers have made hundreds of millions and their latest scam is going after women by pretending to be soldiers in the Iraq/Afghanistan war.

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC shares the latest on Sarah Palin’s ‘refudiate’ woes.

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC rants about Wall Street executives and their lobbyists nonsense attacks on president Obama.

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC breaks down former UN Ambassador Jon Bolton’s latest fear mongering on defense spending.

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC breaks down 3 options for how president Obama might act in the second half of his term with a Republican controlled House.