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Lauren is a California-based writer, who is pursuing a career in journalism. Her main goal in life is to travel the globe and write while doing so. Lauren has written for a variety of publications and now works in social media. She enjoys cooking, Hemingway, yoga, cynicism, drinking wine and living life like a Woody Allen film. Email: Lauren@Inquisitr.com

Russia Imposes Internet Blacklist Law

Russia's Government Starts An Internet Blacklist Law

The Russian government enacted an internet blacklist law, which aims to protect children from viewing harmful internet content by enabling the government to remove sites which it feels can be damaging. Russian authorities can now blacklist and force websites offline without being tried, BBC reports. Both the houses of parliament approved the law, which was… Read more »

Brad Pitt Contributes $100K For Gay Marriage Initiatives

Brad Pitt Will Match $100K For Gay Marriage

Brad Pitt agreed to donate $100,000 in order to booster the strength of highly-contested gay marriage initiatives in four states. Pitt agreed to match contributions of up to $100,000 from other members for the Human Rights Campaign’s National Marriage Fund, which is the nation’s largest gay rights group. Pitt wrote an email on Wednesday, sent… Read more »

Greg Merson Wins World Series Of Poker

Greg Merson Is The Winner Of The World Series Of Poker

Professional US Poker Player, Greg Merson won the World Series of Poker and will be going home with $8.53 million, BBCreports. Merson, 24, won the World Series of Poker after outlasting all of his opponents during a marathon session which ended before dawn, in Las Vegas, NV. The World Series of Poker began in July… Read more »

Miley Cyrus “Wants To Be Her Own Person,” Jessie Andrews Says

Miley Cyrus "Wants To Be Her Own Person," Porn Star Jessie Andrews Says

Miley Cyrus is changing her image from the innocent Hannah Montana past and turning into what some consider to be “her own person,” porn star Jessie Andrews said. Cyrus sings in the chorus of the dubstep track “Decisions” by Borgore, which is about the Israeli DJ’s ex-girlfriend, porn star Jessie Andrews. Andrews spoke with MTV… Read more »

George Lucas Will Donate Part Of Disney Sale To Education

George Lucas Will Donate Portion Of Sale Proceeds To Education

George Lucas will give a large portion of his $4.05 billion sale proceeds from the Lucasfilm sale to a currently unknown foundation which supports education. A spokesperson from Lucasfilm spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the director’s intention to donate part of the Disney sale to primarily benefit education: “George Lucas has expressed his intention,… Read more »

Europe’s Earliest Prehistoric Town Discovered

Europe's Oldest Prehistoric Town Found

Europe’s oldest prehistoric town is thought to have been unearthed by archaeologists, in Bulgaria. The fortified settlement of Europe’s earliest prehistoric town is near modern day Provadia, Bulgaria and was believed to be an important salt production center, BBCreports. According to archaeologists, the prehistoric town is thought to date back to between 4700 and 4200… Read more »

Colombia Drug Lord Captured In Argentina

Colombian Drug Lord Arrested In Argentina

Colombia’s notorious drug lord, Henry de Jesus Lopez, was arrested in a suburb of Buenos Aires, after a months-long chase led by Colombian police through South America. The Colombian drug lord known as Mi Sangre, or My Blood, is thought to be the leader of the Urabenos gang, which dictates much of the drug trade… Read more »

North Korea Leader’s Wife Pregnant?

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's Wife Rumored To Be Pregnant

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s wife, Ri Sol Ju, has reappeared in the North Korean state media after a two-month hiatus, either for being publicly scolded for ill-fitted conduct or for possibly being pregnant. The North Korean leader’s wife is though to be pregnant because of her appearance during a concert at the Kim… Read more »

President Obama Surveys Storm Sandy Devestation In Atlantic City

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President Obama, accompanied with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie surveyed Storm Sandy’s wreckage in Atlantic City, on Wednesday. President Obama surveyed a city which was hit particularly hard by the storm, leaving millions of residents without power and their homes flooded. Governor Christie anticipates the destruction’s toll will be billions of dollars, The Wall Street… Read more »

Tom Sermanni Hired As New US Women’s Coach

Tom Sermanni Hired As New Coach

Tom Sermanni was hired as coach of the US women’s soccer team on Tuesday, replacing Pia Sundhage. Sermanni has coached Australia’s team for the last eight years before taking the position as coach with the US women’s team, The Washington Timesreported. In 2008, The United States Soccer Federation had interviewed Sermanni but decided to hire… Read more »

Orangutan Shot With Air Gun Rescued In Borneo

Orangutan Shot With 104 Pellets

An orangutan who was shot by an air rifle was rescued in Indonesia’s Borneo region, and rescuers are working adamantly to dislodge 104 pellets from her body, a conservationist told the Associated Press on Saturday. The shot orangutan was found in a palm oil plantation in the Central Kalimantan province, this month, Tigor Nainggolan, a… Read more »

Does Mitt Romney Want to Get Rid of FEMA?

Mitt Romney Implied Cutting FEMA

Mitt Romney indicated last year during a GOP presidential debate that he wanted to cut or even possibly privatize the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Last year, Romney’s FEMA cutting comments may not have made a tremendous effect, but now the question is coming into play and Romney doesn’t want to talk about it, Bloombergreports. As… Read more »

Breast Cancer Screening Keeps Women Alive Regardless Of Over Diagnosis

Breast Cancer Screenings Saves Lives Despite Debate

Breast cancer screenings can save lives despite the argument that over diagnosis causes problems which may have never existed in some women, Reuters reports. An independent review released on breast cancer screenings was released by the The Lancet medical journal and commissioned by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and Britain’s Department of Health. An intense debate… Read more »

Johnny Depp Lands Role In ‘Transcendence’

Johnny Depp Signs On For Lead Role In 'Transcendence'

Johnny Depp is set to play the lead role in the upcoming film, Transcendence. Depp will play the role of a husband who becomes taken over by a malicious, man-made computer in the new Wally Pfister film. Some editorial changes may be made in the script along the way though. Many of the film’s plot… Read more »

Bob Ross, PBS Icon, Receives Digital Homage From Google

Bob Ross Is Today's Google Doodle

Bob Ross, the favorite and “froed” PBS host, who taught generations of Americans how to paint, became a “Google Doodle” as the company celebrated what would have been the painter’s 70th birthday, the Los Angeles Timesreports. Ross had a small platform in 1983 before anyone had heard of YouTube or Google but aired on PBS… Read more »

‘The Kite Runner’ Author, Khaled Hosseini Releases New Novel

'The Kite Runner' Author, Khaled Hosseini New Novel Released On May 21

author, Khaled Hosseini, will be releasing his third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, on May 21. The novel from the pen of The Kite Runner author will be published by Riverhead Books, which is part of their parent company, Penguin Group (USA), who also published Hosseini’s first two novels, The Kite Runner and A Thousand… Read more »

Romney Is Favored Among Israelis

Romney Favored In Israel Over Obama

Mitt Romney is favored over President Obama in Israel because Israelis feel Romney would be more attentive to Israel’s needs, NPRreports. A study released by the Peace Index Poll and Israel’s Democracy Institute from August, found that Romney is favored twice as much as Obama. Worldwide, such a fond sentiment for Romney is not found… Read more »

USS Minnesota Christened On Saturday

USS Minnesota Submarine Christened

The USS Minnesota is the newest addition to the Navy’s submarine stock and was christened on Saturday, in Newport News, VA. The attack submarine will be equipped with a crew of 134 officers and personnel to navigate the $2 billion, 7,800-ton, 377-foot-long USS Minnesota. The submarine has the capability to dive deeper than 800 feet… Read more »

Jimmy Savile’s Papal Honor Cannot Posthumously Be Removed By Vatican

Jimmy Savile's Papal Honor Remains

Jimmy Savile’s papal knighthood will remain, despite being alleged as a child predator, the Vatican said, seeing as the entertainer is dead. Last week, the Catholic Church of England had written the Vatican to see if Savile’s honor could posthumously be removed as more sexual abuse allegations against the late entertainer surfaced, the Associated Pressreports…. Read more »

World’s Rarest Dog Is Genetically Unsafe

Rarest Dog In The World Population Is Dwindling

Fewer than 500 of the world’s rarest dogs-the Ethiopian wolf-are genetically coming apart, scientist have said. The world’s rarest dog is Africa’s only species of wolf and a 12-year study suggests that only a small amount of gene flow exists in the small populations. This means the wolves are at a greater risk of extinction… Read more »

Myanmar Death Toll Tops 100 During Ethnic Strife

Myanmar Ethnic Strife Leaves More Than 100 Dead

Myanmar ethnic strife has left more than 100 people dead in the western state of Rakhine, officials said. The Burmese government has warned the strife may risk the reputation of the country as it is trying to implement democratic rule after decades of a military junta, The Associated Press reports. The state spokesman from Rakhine,… Read more »

Malaria Returns To Greece In The Middle Of Crisis

Malaria Returns To Greece After Decades

Malaria has returned to Greece after a 40 year hiatus, with more than 70 cases contracted outside of the country and a minimum of 12 people infected inside the country The numbers of malaria cases are enough to concern health workers because it may now be considered an endemic to Greece and not just travelers… Read more »

President Barack Obama Casts Early Vote In Chicago

President Barack Obama Cast Vote And Encourages Others To Do So

President Obama cast his vote today in Illinois and is encouraging voters in eight different states to do the same, BBCreports. Obama’s challenger, Mitt Romney is campaigning in Ohio, a swing state which could determine who will be in the White House after the election. A national poll say Romney has a 50 percent-47 percent… Read more »

Nanny Arrested For Two Fatal Stabbings

Nanny Arrested For Murder

A nanny was arrested after a mother returned home to find her 2-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl stabbed to death in a bathtub, authorities said. The nanny herself laid next to the dead children with a bloody knife in her hand and a self-inflicted slash across her neck, The New York Timesreported. According to Police… Read more »

Picasso Vandal Gets Art Show, Anger Spurs

Picasso Vandal's Show Sparks Anger

The Picasso vandal, who stenciled over the 1929 piece entitled Woman in a Red Armchair and has since left the country will have his first solo gallery show, in Houston. In spite of the widespread anger, the owner of Cueto James Art Gallery, James Perez, anticipates the gallery will be filled on Friday for the… Read more »

Voodoo Musical Festival Will Offer Overnight Tent Camping

Voodoo Adds Camping To Festival Experience

Voodoo Music and Arts Experience is transporting a European-style music festival to New Orleans and will be offering overnight camping and more electronic acts. The three-day festival starts on Friday at the New Orleans City Park. The Voodoo lineup includes Skrillex, Kaskade, and Justice. Also a number of electronic DJ producers will be performing as… Read more »