Adele Hall, Wife of Hallmark Chair, Dies at Age 81

Kansas City public leader Adele C. Hall, the wife of Hallmark Cards Chairman Donald J. Hall, has died. At the age of 81 years.

Room collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday at home in Hawaii, Hallmark Cards spokesman Steve Doyal said Monday. Doyal said Hall had breakfast with her husband and "worked at the post office when he suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed."

Hall was born in 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is married to her husband for nearly 60 years, the company, based in Kansas City greeting card, he said.

He is active in various organizations in Kansas City, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and was president of the Mercy Hospital for Children and the Great Kansas City Community Foundation. Hall has also held leadership positions on the boards, including the Black College Fund, attractions Luce Foundation and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

It was called the Kansas Citian, in 1990, becoming the first woman to hold the title. E 'was also the first woman president of the Heart of America road and was president of the Mercy Hospital for Children and the Great Kansas City Community Foundation.

"Adele was interested in a wide range of needs of the community with a great passion for the needs of children," he said in a statement Doyal. "It was hard work for the interests of some way -. Visionary as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Energy Champion and a catalyst for change, a member of the Working Committee, which provides fundraising and weapons voluntarily "

Funerals are pending. Hall is survived by her husband, two children and several grandchildren.

Actress Hair Falling Out

There were pink and blonde braids hat, red and brown pony - yes, January Jones had stories enough hair. Indeed, the beautiful actress has changed "to do this several times, you lose.
To be honest, the constant updating of beauty January is usually the case work differently and do not want to be unrecognizable. Ms. Jones gave the red head trend to try for the role of a former prostitute in Sweetwater, and also dabbled in the dark side, but he is best known as a mermaid blonde.
Yes, our favorite moments is January, when the star goes red carpet Marilyn Monroe stylee - we speak your bomb cold waves associated with porcelain skin and bold red lips. Works great with a retro look and she knows how amplifier with ruffles and details flickly, there is no place in the cabinet Betty Draper hair. His oh-so-glam character of Mad Men apparently infected personal preferences January and she knows how to channel this classic elegance with ease, even if off.
So even if his career is inevitably influenced hairvolution January Jones, is a woman who likes to be too bright. In March 2012, we found a trend against scratches with gum pink accents in her hair. And remember that in 2011, when he was a futurist with us for the first time in weighing up sober unknown poker straight, side swept limit? Talk Universal!
During the Sundance Film Festival, the actress told Grazia Daily solely on his changing hair. "I was all the colors, and now my hair is falling out in clumps," he said. "I was blonde, red with extensions for the movie, blonde, black, blonde, and now again. ", You need to shave and wear a wig.
So what is your favorite hair color? "I love all the colors, you feel different depending on what color it is, but I prefer to be a blonde. My son knows that in the pictures I'm blonde, mom said.
Regarding the various responses it receives, the star said. "I do not discriminate when I had red hair, but when it went black for a few months, I suddenly invisible, not just as a celebrity, but my friends and family. I thought, "Well, guys, it's me! '
Well, I can not blame Janners. You can see that the conversion in January hair in the upper gallery. I wonder if she chooses blue wig ...

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Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton appeared to present an award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, earning a standing ovation before he even spoke.

The 42nd President was on hand to introduce "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg's take on the fight to abolish slavery.
"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided Congress," Clinton began before describing how difficult it was for Lincoln to pass the 13th amendment. "Winning it required the president to make a lot of unsavory deals that had nothing to do with the big issue. I wouldn't know anything about that," Clinton quipped, much to the delight of the crowd. Several actors and actresses were spotted taking cell phone photos of Clinton.
"President Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery reminds us that enduring progress is forged in a cauldron of both principle and compromise," Clinton continued. "This brilliant film shows us how he did it, and gives us hope that we can do it again."
"That was Hillary Clinton's husband," host Amy Poehler exclaimed after the surprise guest left the stage. "That was Bill Rodham Clinton!" Tina Fey exclaimed.
The introduction was immediately read as a positive indicator for "Lincoln" to win an Oscar. The film is currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Kevin O'Neill Fired: USC Axes Basketball Coach

Kevin O'Neill was rejected basketball coach Southern California on Monday after three and a half years, during which he managed to transform the program overwhelmed by problems of the NCAA prior to his arrival, and a number of injured players.
O'Neal reached a record of 48-65, including 7-10 this season after 6-26 last year, setting a record for the loss of the school.
Veteran assistant Bob Cantu will be the interim coach during the search for a successor USC. Cantu O'Neill returned to the Pac-10 tournament semifinals against Arizona in 2010-11, when the coach was suspended after receiving a verbal confrontation with the amplifier Wildcats. He remained on the staff through four changes of coach and is the longest full-time assistant to the Pac-12.
Pat Haden sporting director said it became clear to him that the program needs new leadership.
"Despite a good way to win our last game, I felt it was better to make a change now, with most of the Pac-12 next season, to give a new impetus to our team," he said.
Trojans are 2-2 in Pac-12 after a road split last weekend. Lost in the Colorado win in Utah to break a series of 14 consecutive wins road. USC has lost nine of their last 13 games, including a series of five games.
"I really enjoyed my four years at the University of Southern California," O'Neill said in a statement. "This is a special place. Loved the people I worked with, who led the players and our fans. USC Thank you for your program guide. We could not be more proud to work n ' anywhere. "

Star Birth Mystery Solved

Astronomers have finally solved a longstanding cosmic mystery — why a super-dense gas cloud near our Milky Way galaxy's core isn't churning out many new stars.

The gas cloud, known as G0.253+0.016, is simply swirling too fast, researchers said. And it lacks the requisite pockets of even denser material, which eventually collapse under their own gravity to form stars.
The results suggest that star formation is more complex than astronomers had thought and may help them better understand the process, researchers said

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones talked a bit grumpy "many, including those who were witnesses of his term in 2013 Golden Globe Sunday night television NBC.Akter disgusted" grumpy face "is also a part of the online comic meme viral held after the ceremony.

In a report dated January 14 Inquisitr.com said Jones was one of the few members of the public, it seemed, by the routine unamused theater actor on Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig. Alum former "SNL" has decided to make a fun routine to present the nominees for best actress in a supporting role spoken theater actresses through the centuries movie
ey are recited Jones was not laughing, while most of the others, even if the applicant wereThe Moody has now found its place in the meme that has been compared to

Father, Sons Die Hiking

For the weekend trip was a surprise for the birthday of his wife's lover, the Air Force veteran outside with two children decided to walk off the beaten. Wearing only light jackets and sweaters, three apparently did not know how fast the weather deteriorates, which proved to be fatal.
The researchers found the body of 36, impregnated David Decareaux and two boys - 10 years and Dominic Grant 8 years - Ozark Trail Sunday, the day after Decareaux refused the offer passersby walk back to the hotel where he was staying, Reynolds County Sheriff Tom Volner said. The cold killed them, he said.
Single family 4 months labrador yellow survived the hike. It was found near Decareaux, died at the scene, but not boys, who were pronounced dead at the hospital after an hour trying to revive him.
The tragedy crushed Decareaux stepfather, stepmother, Kate Hartrum, who described the family as dense, "always in motion and adventure."
"Dave is a great guy, a good father, a good son and her husband," he told The Associated Press Hartrum. "These two guys were just perfect. - The smart guys, very good "
E 'was nearly 60 degrees on Saturday morning, when Decareaux and children including the popular trail, which passes through sparsely populated areas southeast of the State of Missouri. Decareaux only wear a light jacket and a child wearing a wool sweater, another sweater, Volner said.
Were well equipped, as temperatures dipped into the 40s, and the storm that dropped 2 inches of rain series, making the road almost impassable.
Volner said no caves or other shelters along the way. Although Decareaux had a cell phone and a flashlight with him, both teams were without power at one point, his wife, Sarah, said St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday.
Seen from tourists for more than three hours for the trip and asked if we needed to go back to Brushy Creek Lodge near Black, Missouri, where his wife and son Decareaux three - ages 12, 4 and 2 - remained . Decareaux but he refused, saying that the man who could do it again, the sheriff said.
"He just lost his ride in the country," said the sheriff. "For the moment, the play of light. Did not cover here, because there is no city or country. In the dark you can not see the back of his hand."
Officials of the country of origin called the sheriff's office at 19:00 on Saturday, fearing that tourists do not return. Research on over 50 volunteers on foot, horse and carriage continued until about 0:30 on Sunday, when we look at the flooding rivers moved before dawn.
With the weather was very cold, and the temperature has fallen to 20 years of age dawn.
E 'was shortly after the bodies of tourists were wet, his dog beside them. No autopsy was planned, and death have been associated with hypothermia, Volner said.
Hartrum described Decareaux, who lived in Millstadt, Illinois, as a loving father and a spiritual man, who retired from the Air Force in recent years, and works in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence to work, it could not discuss, even in private. Karen Petitt, a spokesman Scott AFB strengths southwestern Illinois told Decareaux worked for the Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon.
Decareaux and his wife were married 14 years ago, after a chance meeting, it was "love at first sight," said Hartrum, who lives near Waterloo, Illinois, has benefited from its offices abroad , use them to explore Europe over the last decade, with his family, he said.
"They were strong, good and healthy marriages," he said, noting Decareaux was a seasoned traveler, "who had been captured (last week) in a normal situation," which proved fatal .
Decareaux Sarah said that prayer and spiritual faith helped journalists.
"We are a Christian family," said Post-Dispatch on the way to the funeral home to make arrangements. "I know where I am now."

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Roadside bomb kills 14 Pakistani soldiers

At least 14 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 25 others injured Sunday when a roadside bomb hit a military convoy in a lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The improvised explosive device struck the convoy in Dosali village in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district, a notorious stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants, a senior military official said.
‘At least 14 soldiers embraced martyrdom and 25 others were wounded in an IED (attack),’ he said about the bombing which was confirmed by local security officials.
All the soldiers killed were in one truck and those injured were in vehicles behind it, he added.
Local residents said military helicopter gunships had reached the scene after the attack. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility but Taliban militants frequently attack security forces in the area.
The seven northwestern tribal districts are rife with homegrown insurgents as well as Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked operatives.
The al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, is one of the thorniest issues in relations between Islamabad and Washington.
Washington has long demanded that Pakistan take action against the Haqqanis described by a former US general as a ‘veritable arm’ of the Pakistani intelligence service.
Pakistan says it will act according to its own needs and priorities and not on the wishes of a foreign government.
Islamabad says more than 35,000 people have been killed as a result of terrorism in the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

NATO-Taliban clash kills 7 Afghan civilians

Seven civilians were killed on Sunday in Afghanistan after NATO operations against rebels in Central Province, bursts of activity by the Taliban, officials said.
NATO forces said they were investigating reports of civilian casualties after a military operation in which four militants were killed in Wardak province.
Leaders of the Taliban ambushed a group of Afghan soldiers and coalition forces inside the mosque before dawn they returned from operation to stop the rebel commander.
The soldiers returned fire and killed four rebels, some wearing suicide vests, the office of the governor of the province said in a statement.
After falling coalition forces, people went to the mosque to retrieve the body and "at that time there was an explosion in a mosque and seven civilians were killed.
Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the regional government, suggested that the explosion "may be one or suicide vests (bombs) FDI in the mosque."
Shahid did not elaborate and said a delegation to investigate the incident.
The Security Assistance ISAF and NATO said that Afghan troops killed four insurgents after being under fire, and also discovered and destroyed several tanks, weapons and explosives in the region.

Syrian army pounds rebel zones near Damascus

Syrian army sent shells crashed in rebel-held areas in the suburbs of Damascus on Sunday, while the Palestinian camps south of the capital shaken resumption of fighting, a watchdog has said.
"The regime forces fired Daraya, Beit-Zam and Moadamiyat Mleha al-Sham, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, referring to the village rebel organize coast Damascus.
Control group headquartered in the UK, which is based on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers in Syria, also reported heavy fighting between rebels and the army Daraya southwest of Damascus, and in the Barzeh district north of Damascus.
He says the fighting began overnight in the Palestinian camps in the south of Yarmouk in Damascus, which was the scene of violent clashes in recent months, and the planes bombed the regime in December during an attack sent tens of thousands of residents fled.
The recent fighting between the forces of the regime against the insurgents in a clash around the police station, said the observatory.
Violence around Damascus growth since July, the army launched an offensive against the rebels, who had moved a few blocks away.
Analysts say the regime is trying to take control of the area eight kilometers (five miles) around the capital after rebels pushed into the surrounding towns and villages.
In the northern city of Aleppo on stage some of the worst violence since the uprising in Syria against the regime of nearly 22 months, the struggle continues throughout the seat of intelligence, said the observatory.

Hugo Chavez's Political Foes to Challenge Decision to Delay Inauguration

The opponent Hugo Chavez plans to submit the case to the District Court of Human Rights to challenge the decision of the Supreme Court, which allows the indefinite postponement of the presidential nomination.
The point is the preparation of a group of countries of the opposition coalition of lawyers said Gerardo Blyde, a lawyer and opposition politician. He said Saturday he does not know if the case will be brought to the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Opposition's announcement came three days after the decision of the Supreme Court. Despite the objection that the Constitution requires that the opening will take place on January 10 Chavez Congress approved the absorption of delay, the Supreme Court confirmed the delay, saying the president can take office at the court in a country Next given.
The government says the president of 58 years, starting a new mandate after his re-election in October, is grappling with a severe respiratory infection in a Cuban hospital. Chavez underwent his fourth operation due December 11, and not speak publicly or seen.
The opposition has requested additional information on the status of Chavez, and some of them asked the medical team was formed to determine if you are able to stay in power.
Brother Chavez over Adam, the governor of his home state of Barinas, Venezuela returns to Friday after a visit to Havana and the site of his office issued a statement: "The President is still digesting its treatment in the right sense, and every day he goes ahead with his recovery. "Adan Chavez has refused to provide details, saying the vice president is responsible for providing updated information on the status of the President.
Blyde, mayor of the town, spoke to reporters during a meeting in the street in the village square, where the main opponents of Chavez condemned the decision of the Supreme Court in front of a small crowd. A woman holds a placard demanding the government: "Tell the truth."
The court's decision made it impossible for treatment in Venezuela, while the opposition has decided to seek assistance from the regional court. Blyde said decision of the Supreme Court violated the democratic rules of the 2001 Inter-American Democratic Charter.
Chavez government has repeatedly faced with two regional human rights. He began the process of leaving the European Court of Human Rights in September, when he informed the Organization of American States to abandon the regional convention on human rights.
But Blyde said that the Venezuelan government will continue to participate in European Court of Human Rights for the duration of one year, ending in September.
There was no immediate response from the government on the issue may be the regional court. Vice President, Nicolas Maduro traveled to Cuba on Saturday, and said he would meet with Chavez family and the medical team.

Ijtema's Final Prayer

Thousands of Muslims seeking peace and blessing to mankind and the Muslim community in the first phase of Biswa Ijtema ended yesterday with a final appeal - Akheri Munajat.
Indian scholar Maulana Hasan led Munajat Zobayerul 16 minutes Ijtema, the largest collection in the Muslims after Hajj, on the bank of Turag in Tongi.
Braving the cold and the transport crisis, the faithful of all ages and foreigners, including women joined Munajat.
The meeting was extended to nearby streets and areas around the Ijtema ground.
Traffic on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, road and highway Tonga Kamarpara Abdullahpur-Ashulia was suspended in the morning with the sea of ​​people go instead of Ijtema.

Ray Lewis On Stunning Comeback

It was an intimate moment captured for posterity, but can serve as a symbolic reminder of the season of the Denver Broncos, who are at the center.
Peyton Manning modest, with reporters filing deadlines and the camcorder after grinding on the issue after the game has been answered before, took his family in the locker room Ravens on Friday night to attend the Hall of Fame future partners.
Ray Lewis Manning finally found, according to media Ravens director of photography Chad Steele credited support he posted on Twitter.Lewis
Chad Steele / Baltimore RavensPeyton Manning took his family at night, the Ravens locker room 'on Friday after a 38-35 double-OT loss to visit Ray Lewis.
"Great moment@1.5 hours after the game, Peyton Manning and his family were waiting to congratulate @ raylewis52," said Steele Twitter.
Lewis, who is retiring after the playoffs limit 17-year career, will play after the Broncos stunned Ravens 38-35 in two overtime owner, the most devastating loss in the history of Denver.
"Of course, we did a lot of good things this season, but at this stage it is difficult to think of anything else that loss tonight," Manning said later.

Gangster Squad: The real life story of Mickey Cohen, the hoodlum behind Sean Penn's new movie

Bombs, guns and lead pipes - the severe have tried many things on the gangster Mickey Cohen, but do not kill.
Crime boss to work hard to survive Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel, before dying of natural causes.
At the height of his power in Hollywood projectile fired Cadillac and Frank Sinatra, and the screen goddess Lana Turner.
Cohen played Harvey Keitel in Bugsy film in 1991 as companion Warren Beatty in the title role.
Double Oscar winner Sean Penn plays a gangster gangster in the least known of the new blockbuster.
Cohen was only 5ft 5ins however, was strong enough to be illegal boxer and rose through the ranks of the mafia, organized crime has swept the United States.
His real name Meyer Cohen was born in a poor neighborhood in New York in 1913. His mother was Jewish Kiev, Ukraine.
The stocky boy was arrested for selling alcohol ban at the age of nine years. In his adolescence, young people who took part in the fight, and then moved to California to train like a professional boxer.
While the United States is in the midst of the Great Depression led the railroad that crosses the country of vagabonds and where I could earn my living.
When he arrived in Chicago's criminal career began in earnest, and helped the game lasts Matty Al Capone, his younger brother.
He bought his first gun, a thief, and he recalled. "I felt like king of the world when I pulled over 38 made me a man as big as one meter and 10."
Cohen conducted armed mafia boss flights from the Midwest to California. He went to the arrest of more than 100 for the first time at the ripe age of 18 July 1933, in Los Angeles.
His mug shot, tail number 30732 and Lippy suggests calling a 19 year old man, looking ca
a long crescent-shaped scar two inches below the left eye.
A little over a year later, Cohen was held for the murder of a man who tried to rob a casino, or they wererdered guard.
However, the Irish lawyer salary Capone released pending trial date has been set.
In the following years, he worked as an Enforcer to the crowd before his reputation was rewarded with a move to Los Angeles, where he will team up with Bugsy Siegel, another New Yorker.
Cohen came into his own as a leader in gangster playboy big.
In 1949, the FBI's case, said: "Cohen's debut as a pimp in California, however, had a great desire to become a tyrant and an informant informed in 1938 that ran the challenges Westwood ..
"In 1938, Cohen was also a big fish bait for weapons and transport arriving for a visit or a compulsory residence.
"Cohen's reputation in the field of crime was quickly put in place, even when I was in Cleveland, Ohio. Perform all work to make the muscles and did not hesitate or remorse not to kill. "
Years later, Cohen recalls, "I turned Siegel 10,000, $ 25,000 ... the largest was 40,000 pounds are not registered or explanations Anything that says .. "Here, this is for you."
"Ben Siegel me that it was to be a gangster stolen during the night, but do not have the credibility, ability and personality to do things in a more respectable and should start paying taxes, so I have had no problem with income. "
Cohen spent the night in a room surrounded by girls, who arrived in Los Angeles, trying to get to the cinema.
Stella depended on him for favors. Sinatra obtained using Mickey Mouse to keep "passionate love affair with a beautiful new star Ava Gardner, and hidden from the public allegations of sexual abuse in Las Vegas kept secret," according to the biography of gangster Tere Tereba.
He wrote: "Whenever Judy Garland had a problem with her husband went on Mickey Cohen."
When Siegel was shot in June 1947 for skimming public funds, Mickey was in the wings ready to take advantage. Siegel was the development of the activity of a casino in Las Vegas, but secretly diverting funds in a Swiss bank.
E 'was shot in the living room of the hills in the palace of his friend Beverly.
Tereba wrote: "Mickey Cohen was involved in the conspiracy, no doubt."
Cohen was in a crowd of enemies and survived several assassination attempts, including an explosion in a house in Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife Lavonne.
She became a Hollywood celebrity. People asked for autographs and took with friends, Barbara Darnell and Liz Reznay.
In 1950, she posed for a photo surrounded by newspaper clippings of his crime business.
Cohen, the director of an elite police unit called the Gangster Squad, was sentenced to four years for tax evasion in the early 50s. His armored Cadillac captured.
In 1961, he was put in jail for the same thing. In Alcatraz tried to kill him with a lead pipe.
He was released in 1972 and was soon diagnosed with stomach cancer. Mickey Cohen was 62 when he died in his sleep in 1976.

Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde Engaged

 The Saturday Night Live star and House vet have gotten engaged, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Couple met in December 2011 and made ​​plans to officially marry shortly after the holidays. Wilde is known about its commitment to Sudeikis tweeter, and is often accompanied by the University of Kansas basketball in the country of origin of an actor.

Wilde and Sudeikis work together Relanxious relationship comedy directed by Christopher Storer, and try to start this year. It tells the story of love between a man and a woman with agoraphobia anxiety attacks.

Wilde was married to director Tao Ruspoli 2003-2011. The new projects include Spike Jonze another science fiction novel, Ron Howard and his race biopic Rush, where they will play alongside Chris Hemsworth. Rush is scheduled in September and will be released later this year.

First Samples Obtained from Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake

Russian scientists were the first signs of pure water ice of a subglacial lake in Antarctica during the drilling of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, said.
In February 2012, after decades of drilling, Russian scientists were finally able to penetrate the ice sheet of Antarctica, at a depth of about 3.7 km east of the lake to reveal the secret that had been sealed there for the last 20 million years.
The researchers hope that the East, which is the largest network of buried glacial lake in Antarctica, as well as one of the largest lakes in the world, can reveal new life forms and show how life evolved before the ice age.
The scientists studied water samples obtained before, when drilled deep into the back of the lake in 2012, but did not know they were samples of the lake water, instead of water to the inside a glacier above the lake.

Famous San Francisco twin Vivian Brown dies

San Francisco residents are mourning the passing of Vivian Brown, who became a local celebrity along with her twin sister after the two regularly walked through the city's streets in matching high-end outfits, identical hairdos and cheerful smiles. The 85-year-old Brown died in her sleep on Wednesday at an assisted care facility in the city, Barbara Farber, director of development for Jewish Family and Children's Services, told the San Francisco Chronicle.Read more here

White House responds to Death Star petition: No

It took no advice from the Imperial Senate to reach this conclusion: the U.S. government won't be building a Death Star. A White House official responded Friday to an online petition on its website proposing the government turn what is “Star Wars” fiction into reality - you know, to boost the economy.To read more click here

Aaron Swartz found dead

Authorities say Reddit co-founder and active member of a team that is struggling to make online content free to the public, was found dead.

Press the New York medical examiner says 26-year-old Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his apartment in Brooklyn. It was found Friday.

Schwartz death was confirmed by his lawyer, Elliot Peters, in an email to the newspaper MIT Tech.

"The tragic and disturbing information that you have, unfortunately, it is true," wrote Peters.

Schwartz, a founder of the action group non-profit progressive political issue, was a child prodigy as a teenager helped create RSS. He was a founder of the social news site Reddit and direct political action group Progress demanded that the campaign against Internet censorship.

In 2011, he was arrested in Boston on charges of theft of millions of computer files of magazines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Schwartz has pleaded not guilty. Federal Court on charges of computer fraud to begin next month. If convicted, he risks 50 years in prison and up to $ 4 million in fines.

Milton Bradley charged with domestic abuse

The former Chicago Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley was accused of abusing his wife and could face 13 years in prison if convicted, prosecutors in the city on Friday.
Bradley, 34, was charged Thursday with 13 counts of administrative offenses of assault with a weapon, vandalism and threatening discourage witnesses to report.
In addition to imprisonment, Bradley faces $ 13,000 in fines and restitution if convicted.
He was released pending appearance in the program on January 24.

The anti-Americanism of Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan has millions of fans in America and has made millions of dollars. But that does not mean that the action hero is a fan of good old free U.S. of A. In a recent television interview in Hong Kong, Chan has made anti-American comments.

Chan anti-Americanism may be a surprise to the American public, but the Washington Post notes that the immersion of action stars are often political discussions in China. Chan writes political commentary in its entirety for a limited and controlled, but the star of the auction, his anti-Americanism show earlier this week in a television interview in Hong Kong.