“The bulk of the thousands of doctors and nurses struggling to save lives — as about 40,000 people died of cholera — were volunteers for the international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The Bible readers were hired by the American televangelist and former religious right presidential candidate, Pat Robertson, …

“A woman has been stopped by police for aparently breastfeeding her baby while riding a moped. The young mother was allegedly driving through the streets of Yuzhou, China when she was pulled over. Officers said she was weaving through traffic while holding her 18-month-old son on her lap as he …

“Just when you thought pornographers had covered every conceivable connubial combination comes a sex fantasy that hasn’t yet been immortalized — frisky conjoined twins. “Conjoined,” an adult film set for release Nov. 26, features two non-related porn stars, Mischa Brooks and Rilynn Rae, who are joined at the hip.”* The …

If you’re going to spend the next 14 years in a Chinese prison, a luxury watch probably won’t do you much good. That’s what Yang Dacai is going to find out. Known as Brother Wristwatch by Chinese netizens, the smiley former head of Shaanxi province work safety administration has been …

The bodyguard of Adolf Hitler, 96-year-old SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch, has died. Did he deny the holocaust and concentration camps of World War II until the end? What else can we take away from his 2005 AP interview? The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down. Read more …

Should President Obama lead the US into a potential war with Syria over use of chemical weapons (with our without approval from Congress)? Is there evidence that President Bashar Al-assad was behind the sarin gas attacks or was it Syrian rebels who wanted it to appear that way? The Young …

“A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War. The decision in favor of CACI stemmed …

“A pro-Israel lobby that commands enormous influence among both Republicans and Democrats alike is preparing a major push to pressure lawmakers to support the resolution authorizing military force in Syria, Politico reported Thursday. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will deploy up to 250 Jewish leaders and activists to …

It’s week two of the college football season, so Dan Rubenstein made his way to Brooklyn to make his picks and more importantly, to sample the incredible sandwiches at Court Street Grocers. Subscribe for more of our daily and weekly programming, as well as for features, interviews, and all sorts …

“President Obama on Friday refused to say whether he would attack Syria if Congress voted against it. The president was pressed repeatedly at the G-20 summit about an aide’s remark that it is neither his “desire nor his intention” to carry out an attack alone, but declined to answer. “You’re …