“The name Kuşköy itself means ‘bird village.’ ‘Come over here for some tea!’ Ibrahim Kodalak calls to his neighbor as he stands outside his home, which clings to a sheer hillside far above a valley. The 45-year-old hazelnut farmer is ‘speaking’ in a series of earsplitting, warbling whistles that really …

“An official of the Archdiocese of Boston pleaded not guilty today after he was allegedly found with a prostitute behind a cemetery. Monsignor Arthur Coyle, 62, of Lowell was arraigned this morning in Lowell District Court. Bail was set at $500 cash, and he was slated to return to court …

“‘For retirement, the answer is 4-0-1-k,’ proclaimed Tyler Mathisen, then editor of Money magazine in 1996. ‘I feel sure that someday, like a financial Little-Engine-That-Could, it will pull me over the million-dollar mountain all by itself.’ For this sentiment, and others like it, Mathisen was soon rewarded with an on-air …

“The former executive director of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County was arrested last Friday for allegedly sexting with a 16-year-old girl. During a child exploitation investigation conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department Mission Division, the girl told officers that Scott Hounsell, 30, had engaged in sexually explicit …

“According to reports from Right Wing Watch and the Huffington Post, Cathie Adams, former chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said one feature of the Senate’s immigration bill is a signpost of the end times. A biometric scanning measure, Adams said, will lead to the mark of the beast. The …

Progressive Change Campaign Committee hosted a first-of-its-kind Open Debate in the special election for Congress in Massachusetts. http://www.OpenDebateQuestions.com All 5 Democrats running in the primary to replace now-Senator Ed Markey in the House of Representatives have agreed to participate in our Open Debate, where the public submits and votes on …

Here’s the full video of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association harassing Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong during an organ harvesting protest, and Hong Kong teacher Lam Wai-sze criticizing the Hong Kong Police for their inaction. This is just one example of many showing Mainland China encroaching on the …

A look at the TYT Top 5. What were YOUR Top 5 clips of the week? Here are the full clips: 5.) Al-Qaeda Can Make Clothes into Explosives, Says Report http://youtu.be/y5Wg-QOTHR0 4.) Christian Kids’ Entertainer ‘Plotted to Kill and Eat Children’ http://youtu.be/2b7aNF3yI6s 3.) How Exactly is Obama ‘Starting a Race …

Twitter’s UK boss has personally apologised to women who have been attacked by ‘trolls’ on the social networking site, vowing to do more to protect people from abuse. It comes as Scotland Yard said its e-crime unit was looking into claims by eight people of abuse. Twitter found itself in …

“The legislative assault on ACORN, which shut down in 2010, was included in a Department of Defense appropriations bill that cleared the House on Thursday. Although the bill passed by a broad, bipartisan margin of 315-97, it garnered attention for an amendment proposed by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) that would …