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James Woods went after Anderson Cooper with a brazenly homophobic tweet about Cooper's now infamous eye roll. The actor posted a GIF of Anderson rolling his eyes during an interview with Kellyanne Conway a few days ago. He captioned it ... "As his butt plug dislodges during a newscast." Woods makes no secret of it -- he's a staunch conservative and vocal supporter of President Trump. Clearly, he'd side with Conway over Cooper. However ... this remark makes Colbert's "cock holster" comment about the prez seem tame

When Jessica was selected as Student of the Year in eighth grade, she should have celebrated this goldest of gold stars. Instead, she slammed doors, bawled her eyes out and let her parents know she would hate them for the rest of her life. What they were doing to her wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair. She’d been a model student, and now her middle school wanted to reward her by footing half the bill for a trip to Washington, D.C. — home to all the presidents whose birthdays and middle names she’d memorized. Her parents wouldn’t let her go. They...

BOSTON – Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won't always be able to count on his vote. The man who staged an upset in last week's Massachusetts Senate special election, in part by pledging to be the 41st GOP vote against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he staked his claim in early conversations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl. "I already told them, you know, `I got here with the help of a close group of friends and very little...

Hamdi El-Hilu from Ramallah is expelled in police raid. One way or another I will come home, he says Roi Mandel Published: 02.08.07, 14:35 / Israel News "I cannot live without my wife and daughter. I will do anything to return to my family," said Hamdi El-Hilu after he was deported to the West Bank by Israeli police. El-Hilu, who lives in southern Israel, is married to an Israeli and has a three-year-old daughter. He was expelled after being arrested on Wednesday following a raid on the quarry at which he works. El-Hilu had previously requested Israeli citizenship on account...

PHOENIX (AP) - Students who placed second in a national underwater robotics competition won't be going to next year's contest because of the possibility of their illegal status in the United States. The students, from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, recently beat out high school and college students from across the country, including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and fell only to the reigning champs from the Marine Institute of Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. On the heels of their success, the students learned that next year's contest will be held in Canada, and that they won't be...

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, Arab-Americans have a greater fear of racial profiling and immigration enforcement than of falling victim to hate crimes, according to a national study financed by the Justice Department. The study also concluded that local police officers and federal agents were straining under the pressure to fight terrorism, and that new federal policies in this effort were poorly defined and inconsistently applied. The two-year study, released today by the Vera Institute of Justice, explored the changed relationship between Arab-Americans and law enforcement in the years since the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Vera Institute is a...

MEXICO will complain to the US government about plans to build fences and deploy troops along the border to curb illegal immigration, the foreign minister said yesterday.Mexico has pushed for sweeping immigration reforms to help millions of Mexicans work legally in the United States but it fears Washington is more interested in keeping them out. Luis Ernesto Derbez, the foreign minister, said Mexico would send a note protesting about plans to secure the 2,000-mile border, which hundreds of thousands of Mexicans cross every year in search of jobs. "There are 12 million Mexicans on the other side, 12 million people...

A 12-year-old Palestinian girl was killed yesterday by Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip. Thirteen other members of her family, including toddlers, children and teenagers were injured. Nonetheless, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer last night told Haaretz that the widespread shelling of Gaza would continue. Launches of Qassam rockets from the Strip continued yesterday. The Israeli hit on civilians reduces the chances of calming the situation in the region quickly. The shell hit the family's home on the northern outskirts of Beit Lahia at about 5 P.M. As a result, a fire broke out, and almost everyone in the...

Radio station sale forces Air America to seek new home Laura Newpoff The Business Journal From the January 20, 2006 print edition One of the first things Bob Christy did when he found out his liberal talk radio station's format was changing to religious broadcasting was to offer his worried staff an exit strategy. "I told them I'd give two-weeks pay to anyone who wanted to leave that day," Christy said. "But nobody did." Christy is general manager of KXXT 1010-AM in Phoenix, home of the Air America Radio format since September 2004. The station was acquired in October, part...

Sex with strangers. Drug abuse. Mental illness. Among educated twentysomethings reared in the therapy culture, every personal scandal is fair game at the dinner table. Except for one: coming from money. "Please don't tell anyone about my trust fund, I really don't want that information being passed around," one young New Yorker e-mailed me. "Oh, so I'm the bad guy?" another heir asked warily. It may sound strange that in the most affluent society in the world, in the richest city in the world, Richie Riches would be ashamed of their inherited fortunes. After all, President Bush repealed the estate...

Posted on Fri, Sep. 09, 2005 Illegal immigrants afraid to get storm aid E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press NEW ORLEANS - Some sneak into shelters at night and then slip out in the morning, praying they won't be noticed. Others avoid government help altogether, preferring to ride out the chaos and destruction alone in a foreign land. For illegal immigrants, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has meant not only living without a home, money or belongings, but also steering clear of the government officials who have flocked to the area, for fear of deportation. Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants...

WASHINGTON — Sen. George Voinovich greeted the news of John Bolton's recess appointment by urging the Bush administration not to send Bolton to upcoming European Union meetings on Iran's reported nuclear proliferation. "I'd be real careful about who they send to represent us in terms of that issue," he said. Voinovich, who at times has been the lone Republican voice opposing Bolton's nomination, instead urged the Bush administration to consider sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the meetings this month. The EU3 — the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France — will give proposals to Iran on its...

COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) - A stolen sport utility vehicle with 13 people inside - allegedly involved in a smuggling attempt - rolled over near the U.S.-Mexican border while trying to avoid police, authorities said. Four people were killed and nine were injured. "We believe this was a case of human smuggling that went bad," said Doug Mosier, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol in nearby El Paso, Texas. "Obviously it's a tragedy of enormous proportions and a very clear reminder of the dangers associated with smuggling." A Border Patrol agent spotted the SUV parked along a highway Wednesday afternoon,...

Mayor Bloomberg says the city "acted appropriately" while arresting and holding thousands of people during the Republican convention. I beg to differ. I wasn't even a demonstrator - I was going for a drink with a friend when I was arrested - and my experience tells a different story. It was Tuesday, Aug. 31, about 8:30 p.m. when my friend and I saw a lot of cops running on 26th St., then up Park Ave. South. I saw a man being handcuffed who said he had done nothing. The cop was using a lot of force, and I asked him...

Saudi national Hasan Saddiq Faseh Alddin was jailed without bail and facing deportation. Five of his closest friends from the Vista mosque wrote letters or showed up at his bond hearing in June to show support or testify on his behalf. In the days that followed, each of those friends received unannounced home visits from FBI agents. The agents appeared on doorsteps purporting to want information about Alddin, who was described by the government as a friend of a friend of two 9/11 hijackers. But according to Alddin's supporters, they quickly became the subject of the interviews as agents asked...