The American Pundit

Yet Another Update on WeinerGate

An update to this post, which is itself an update to this one. Neil Stevens at RedState writes that the recipient of the lewd photograph was a woman named @GennetteNicole. Her account has now been deleted, but she described herself as a progressive activist living in Seattle — the subject of the first linked update. [...]

Poverty link to starting periods younger, UK study says

LONDON (BNO NEWS) — A new United Kingdom study suggests that girls from poorer backgrounds are starting their periods younger, thereby increasing their risk of breast cancer, the BBC reported.

The study of 90,000 women found that girls in lower soci…

Ousted president Zelaya returns to Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (BNO NEWS) — Ousted president Manuel Zelaya on Saturday returned to Honduras after an exile of more than a year, El Heraldo reported.

Zelaya flew in from neighboring Nicaragua after spending 16 months in the Dominican Republic …

Muslims Attack Christian Churches, Egyptian Court Punishes Christians

Good thing we withdrew our support for Hosni Mubarak, huh? This is a much better situation for human freedom. Or at least for Islamist objectives. Mostly that last part. A Military court in Egypt has sentenced three Christian Copts to 5-years imprisonment on charges of possession of firearms and pocket knives. The Court released all [...]

Interesting: Why Did Weiner Care About Seattle Time?

A continuation of last night’s story. Read that first if you don’t understand the “WeinerGate” reference. Anyway, Dan Riehl points out an oddity on Weiner’s Twitter account. Yesterday he posted this: Heading to 30 Rock to chat with Rachel at 9. #Thats545InSeattleIThink about 17 hours ago via TweetDeck Retweeted by 18 people He later sends [...]

UPDATE1 — Strong earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra, no tsunami alert

JAKARTA (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck off Southern Sumatra in Indonesia on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and no tsunami alert was issued.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake a…

UPDATE2 — Suicide bomber kills powerful Afghan police chief at meeting

TALOQAN, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — A suicide bomber dressed as a police officer targeted a meeting at a governor’s house in northern Afghanistan on late Saturday afternoon, Afghan and NATO officials said, killing seven people including a powerful polic…

Syrian death toll continues to rise

DAMASCUS (BNO NEWS) — Human rights activists said on Saturday that the death toll in Friday’s violence in Syria rose to 13, CNN reported.

Organizers known as local coordination committees issued a list of names of all but one of those they claim were…

Strong earthquake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra, no tsunami alert

JAKARTA (BNO NEWS) — A strong earthquake struck off Southern Sumatra in Indonesia on early Sunday morning, seismologists said, but no tsunami alerts were issued.

The 6.3-magnitude earthquake at 00.07 a.m. local time (1707 GMT Saturday) was centered a…

Egypt opens Rafah border crossing permanently

GAZA (BNO NEWS) — Egyptian authorities on Saturday opened the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after four years of closure.

Palestine News & Info Agency reported that the crossing will be opened on a daily basis for eight h…