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N.J. teen who sued parents granted restraining order against boyfriend

The New Jersey teenager who made national headlines for suing her parents over future college costs has now obtained a temporary restraining order against her boyfriend, whom her parents had wanted her to stop dating.

July 24, 2014

Islamic State orders female genital mutilation for Mosul girls, U.N. says

The Islamic State has supposedly ordered all Iraqi women and girls in the militant-controlled city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said Thursday.

July 24, 2014

Andrew Cuomo launches statewide task force to collect LGBT data

New York has launched a statewide task force to collect sexual orientation data on residents as part of a comprehensive effort to improve services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday.

July 24, 2014

Obama’s motorcade prevents woman in labor from crossing street to hospital

Los Angeles witnesses say a pregnant woman in labor was forced to wait a half-hour for President Obama's motorcade to pass before she could cross the street to Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

July 24, 2014

Democratic Sen. John Walsh plagiarized War College master’s thesis: report

Montana's newly appointed Democratic Sen. John Walsh plagiarized at least one third of his final thesis that earned him a master's degree at the United States Army War College, The New York Times revealed Wednesday.

July 23, 2014

Bad business: Fla. car dealership gives woman refund in pennies

A Florida woman is outraged after buying a faulty car from a Jacksonville dealership and receiving a refund in thousands of pennies.

July 23, 2014

Little Rock Air Force Base on lockdown due to ‘suspicious individual’

Little Rock Air Force Base has been placed on lockdown due to a "suspicious individual," officials said Wednesday.

July 23, 2014

White flags baffle NYPD: ‘We’re lucky it wasn’t a bomb’

The New York Police Department still can't explain how a group of five individuals were able to hoist two white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge, which is supposed to be heavily monitored.

July 23, 2014

Border agents: ‘This is the dream of every terrorist in the world’

The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council says the current border crisis is "the dream of every terrorist in the world," with illegal immigrants being able to board American jetliners without proper identification.

July 23, 2014

Netanyahu’s Wikipedia page replaced with giant Palestinian flag

The Wikipedia page for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was revised on Tuesday with all biographical information removed and replaced with a large, single Palestinian flag.

July 23, 2014

Family removed from Southwest flight over tweet about rude agent, dad says

A Minnesota father says he and his family were asked to de-board a Southwest Airlines flight because of a negative tweet he posted online about one of the airline's agents.

July 23, 2014

Sarah Palin blames Sammy Hagar for lead foot

Sarah Palin jokingly blamed Sammy Hagar for contributing to her lead foot that earned her a $154 speeding ticket last week.

July 22, 2014

Tony Dungy doubles down on Michael Sam remarks: ‘Drafting him would bring much distraction’

Former NFL coach Tony Dungy doubled down Tuesday on earlier remarks that he wouldn't have drafted openly gay football player Michael Sam because he wouldn't have wanted to "deal with all of it."

July 22, 2014

Brooklyn Bridge surrenders: White flags replace Old Glory atop icon

Two American flags were stolen from atop the Brooklyn Bridge overnight Monday and replaced with two white flags, police said.

July 22, 2014

Help! George Harrison memorial tree killed by beetles

A pine tree planted in memory of Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison was ironically killed off by a beetle infestation, Los Angeles Councilman Tom LaBonge announced over the weekend.

July 22, 2014

Philadelphia mosque leaders try to sever hand of accused thief

Two leaders of a West Philadelphia mosque are accused of trying to sever a suspected thief's hand with a machete after he allegedly stole money from prayer jars.

July 22, 2014

Detroit water shutoffs are racially motivated, lawsuit claims

A class-action suit has been filed against the city of Detroit for water shutoffs, claiming the stoppages are racially motivated.

July 22, 2014

Tim McGraw not sorry for slapping female fan: ‘Things happen’

Country music star Tim McGraw fell short of apologizing Sunday after viral video showed him slapping a female fan who grabbed his pant leg at his Atlanta concert last weekend.

July 21, 2014

Ron Paul: U.S. partly to blame for Malaysia Airlines disaster

Former Republican Rep. Ron Paul said Sunday that the United States shares part of the blame in the attack on the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine last week, and that the Obama administration may try and use the tragedy as an excuse to attack Russia.

July 21, 2014