Jessica Chasmar

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep it’

CNN's website PolitiFact has announced its 2013 "Lie of the Year," in which President Obama told Americans "if you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan."

December 12, 2013

Massachusetts brewery loses 1,500 gallons of beer in gasket leak

A popular brewery in Framingham, Mass., lost 1,500 gallons of beer after a gasket failed on a full tank.

December 12, 2013

Jane Fonda Foundation fails to make single contribution in 5 years: report

The Jane Fonda Foundation did not make a single charitable donation in five years for which it has filed federal tax returns, even though the organization was valued at nearly $800,000.

December 12, 2013

Bubonic plague kills 20 in Madagascar

Twenty people in Madagascar have died from the bubonic plague in the last week, giving way to fears of a possible outbreak, officials said.

December 12, 2013

‘Marry and Be Submissive’ book a hit in Italy, draws feminists’ ire in Spain

An Italian book that teaches new wives how to be submissive has become a huge hit in Spain, angering feminists who have called for it to be banned.

December 12, 2013

G-20 diplomats fell for hacker attack promising nude photos of former French first lady Carla Bruni

An email sent to dozens of diplomats at the 2011 G-20 summit in Paris promised nude pictures of former French first lady Carla Bruni, and many of the diplomats took the bait, it emerged Thursday.

December 12, 2013

Florida appeals court rules universities can’t regulate guns

A Florida appeals court sided with a college student who challenged a rule at the University of North Florida that banned students from storing guns in their cars while on campus.

December 12, 2013

Brown pelicans turning up in Florida Keys with throats slashed

Charter boat captain Jim Sharpe was on his dock on Summerland Key, Fla. last Friday when he noticed a brown pelican with its throat slit, making it almost impossible for it to swallow fish.

December 11, 2013

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joins Washington Post as columnist

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow will be joining The Washington Post's opinion section as a monthly columnist, the newspaper announced Wednesday.

December 11, 2013

Second man charged for stealing piece of Paul Walker car wreck

A second man was charged in Southern California on Tuesday for stealing a piece of the Porsche in which "Fast & Furious" actor Paul Walker was killed.

December 11, 2013

George Zimmerman will not be charged in domestic dispute

George Zimmerman will not be charged in a domestic dispute that led to his arrest last month, prosecutors said Wednesday.

December 11, 2013

Creator of ‘Selfies at Funerals’ blog retires after Obama flub: ‘Our work here is done’

The man who decided to turn the social media phenomenon of "funeral selfies" into a viral blog has announced he is shutting the website down after President Obama snapped a shot of himself at Nelson Mendela's memorial on Tuesday.

December 11, 2013

40 Australian adults, children found in ‘one of the worst accounts of incest ever made public’

Australian officials have uncovered a disturbing incestuous cult of about 40 relatives living in filthy conditions in a picturesque valley in New South Wales.

December 11, 2013

London’s Harrods unveils $1.6 million luxury whisky set

London's luxury department store Harrods has unveiled a $1.6 million whisky set, which it prides as "the masterpiece of a lifetime."

December 11, 2013

10-year-old Pennsylvania boy suspended for pretend bow-and-arrow shooting

A 10-year-old Pennsylvania boy was suspended from school after pretending to shoot his friend with an imaginary bow and arrow, and now his parents are threatening legal action against the school district.

December 11, 2013

George H.W. Bush joins Twitter

The 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, has officially joined Twitter.

December 10, 2013

Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian supermodel, posts ‘multitasking’ breastfeeding pic

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen caused a bit of a stir Tuesday after sharing an Instagram photo of herself breastfeeding her one-year-old daughter while being primped by her beauty team.

December 10, 2013

Chicago-area youth baseball treasurer accused of embezzling $80K

A volunteer treasurer for a Chicago-area youth baseball organization was arrested Monday morning for allegedly writing $80,000 worth of organization checks to himself.

December 10, 2013

Galaxy S4 owner claims Samsung tried to silence him after phone caught fire

Samsung has reportedly tried to silence a customer in Canada whose Galaxy S4 caught fire while charging last week.

December 10, 2013

Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy site sold to owners of Townhall, HotAir: report

Twitchy, the Twitter aggregation site owned by conservative pundit Michelle Malkin, has been sold to Salem Communications, which runs Hotair.com and Townhall.com, BuzzFeed first reported.

December 10, 2013