“Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) made a shocking move to protect food stamp recipients on Wednesday, forestalling congressional cuts to the benefits program in his state. Corbett is the first Republican governor to leverage his state’s “heat and eat” aid program to preserve food stamp eligibility following the new farm …

In this weekly segment, Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) responds to viewer questions from Twitter– both personal and serious. You can join in by using #askcenk and #tytlive on Twitter! This week: Does Cenk believe in a world government without corruption? Will TYT ever produce films? When will Cenk appear on The …

“Four young men have been convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, according to a human rights activist. The four were sentenced and punished on Thursday to 15 strokes. They also face a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay a fine …

“Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. It’s an unsettling …

“The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned. The criminal referral may be related to what several knowledgeable …

“A modern-day ‘Peeping Tom’ installed software on women’s laptops in order to film them getting changed in their bedrooms, a court has heard. Andrew Meldrum pretended to be helping the women to set up their computers, but in fact he was planning to spy on them, according to prosecutors. He …

“Testifying against bills proposed to legalize and decriminalize marijuana in the state, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop cited a hoax story that claimed 37 people had died the first day marijuana was legalized in Colorado. “The first day of legalization, that’s when Colorado experienced 37 deaths that day from overdose …

“Someone at German car-tuning firm Carlsson must have been listening to Trinidad James while working on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class CS50 Versailles, because this car is the embodiment of “all gold everything.” That’s right, the souped-up CS50 Versailles is covered in real gold, both inside and out. Carlsson, which specializes in …

First Jeopardy, now the food world. IBM’s cognitive computing system uses existing recipes and flavor chemistry to predict what humans will think tastes good at SXSW 2014.

“Rather than being taken to jail, sex workers apprehended on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona are being handcuffed and brought to a church, where they can decide if they would rather be incarcerated by the state or undergo diversion therapy. The policy, known as Project ROSE, is a Phoenix program …