Nick Watt from ABC Nightline recently spent a weekend with the Westboro Baptist Church. The decision to spend a weekend with Westboro was a difficult one. My ABC News bosses and I had cooked up an idea that I should spend weekends with slivers of American society that, as a recent immigrant, I found puzzling […]
President Barack Obama talks about the fall of the Berlin Wall to a crowd gathered at the Brandenburg Gate Wednesday. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Berlin Marks 50 Years Since Iconic JFK Speech: Germans are set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s celebrated “Ich […]
Tennis pro Serena Williams is taking heat after comments about the Steubenville rape case. As we reported yesterday in an exclusive report, UniteWomen.org published an Open Letter to Serena Williams. Additionally, earlier today Williams released an official statement which you can find on her website. SERENA WILLIAMS STATEMENT “What happened in Steubenville was a real shock […]
Should high schoolers get an assignment to write a suicide note? That’s what happened in one New York school. The students were asked to write the suicide note from the perspective of a character in a book they were reading for class. The school is defending the assignment, saying it forced the students to think, […]
Republican US House member Michael Burgess of Texas said on Monday that he opposes the abortin of fetuses after 15 weeks of pregnancy since that is the time that male fetuses begin to masturbate. “This is a subject I do know something about,” Burgess, a former OB/GYN who said he’s delivered “thousands of babies,” began. […]