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Via: FoxNews.com A condom manufacturer in Switzerland has created extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 years old… It’s called the Hotshot and  family planning groups and the Swiss AIDS Federation thought it was a necessity for the condoms to be produced following several studies that showed adolescent boys were engaging in unprotected intercourse.  Nancy […]

Via: NewsOne President Obama is likely to lay out a political road map Wednesday for passage of sweeping health care legislation, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. Gibbs said the president will talk about “the way forward” to pass a bill. Among other things, Obama is expected to advocate for an “up or […]

Via: CNN.com The massive earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, scientists at NASA say. The change is negligible, but permanent: Each day should be 1.26 microseconds shorter, according to preliminary calculations. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second. A large quake shifts massive amounts of […]

(CNN) — A tsunami advisory announced shortly after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Ryukyu Islands early Saturday has been canceled, Japan’s Meteorological Agency reported. There was no tsunami damage “though there may be slight sea level changes from now on,” it said, referring to the areas affected by the advisory — the Okinawa Islands, the […]

Via: NewsOne In Hurricane Katrina’s chaotic aftermath, police shot six people – killing two – as they crossed a bridge in search of food. For years the case was a shocking symbol of the confusion and violence that swept through the flooded city. On Wednesday it became a mark of shame for the police department. […]

Via: FOXNEWS.com The first of 150 full-body scanners planned for U.S. airports will be installed next week in BOSTON. The scanners were purchased with $25 million from President Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan and are supposed to be installed in all airports by the end of June (including RDU). Body scanners have been available for years, […]

Washington (CNN) — Alexander Haig, who managed the Nixon administration during the Watergate crisis and served a controversial stint as secretary of state under President Reagan, died on Saturday. He was 85. Haig died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after he was admitted there on January 28, spokesman Gary Stephenson said.

Via: BaltimoreSun.com Harold Montaize Alford, 22: Alford is charged in the Feb. 17 murder of Adam Couther, 27, who was stabbed while trying to break up an argument between Alford and his aunt over her friends on Facebook, police say. According to charging documents, when police responded to the scene in the 700 block of […]

Via: BoingBoing.Com According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue […]

After the media frenzy that surrounded Tiger Woods’ car accident and alleged affairs, he finally speaks publicly to a select group of friends, colleagues and associates at PGA headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. According to CNN.com, a statement on Woods’ Web site elaborated: “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between […]

Via: CNN.com An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said. Federal authorities identified the pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 as Joseph Andrew Stack, 53. […]

Via: NewsOne The NYPD performed 575,304 “stop-and-frisk” patdowns last year — the most since the numbers have been released, the department revealed yesterday. Some 55 percent of those stopped last year were black, 32 percent Hispanic, 10 percent white and 3 percent Asian.