New York Stock Exchange Halts All Trading

The New York Stock Exchange suspended all trading at about 11:32 this morning, reportedly because of technical issues.

The New York Stock Exchange suspended all trading at about 11:32 this morning, reportedly because of technical issues.

Bristol Palin, who shocked America by showing up 16-and-pregnant to the Republican National Convention in 2008, is pregnant again. She announced the news via her blog today, which was “a lot sooner than I ever expected due to the constant trolls who have nothing better to talk about!!!”
If someone "says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," [Pope Francis] joked.
Late last week, reporters discovered a video of racist anti-government rantings by a St. Louis County police officer working the streets of Ferguson. Media scrutiny quickly focused on the officer's incendiary language and policing methods, but few paused to scrutinize the group to whom he was addressing his comments.
"In accordance with an order from the president of the Russian Federation, forces of the Western Military District were put on alert at 1400 (0500 ET)," a Russian defense minister said today. Nothing to do with Ukraine, just play drills! Say, did you see those Olympics?
This probably doesn't bode well for the international community's upcoming Iran settlement talks, unless Bill Walton and Charles Barkley are mediating. Which would be fun, until the nuclear holocaust started.
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Whoops. Mississippi newspaper The Sun Herald accidentally published the closely-guarded list of MacArthur “genius grant” recipients several hours before the MacArthur Foundation’s press embargo. We’ve copied the full list of winners below. Each receives $625,000 over five years, to spend on whatever he or she wants.…
"A team of British scientists is convinced it has found proof of alien life, after it harvested strange particles from the edge of space," the Independent reports. Will we all be destroyed by alien bacteria? Are we already full of alien bacteria?
Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly has a question: "A man beats a 100 pound woman into a coma over a parking space. He claims she deserves it. Could he be right? In Kelly's Court!" Never have so many wrongs been contained in the space of a single tweet. Let us count them:
Scientists finally took some pictures of "Hanny's Voorwerp," the "bizarre," galaxy-sized space blob discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007, and it turns out it's "giving birth" to "very lonely newborn stars." Better than "eating planets," I suppose.
According to a new conservation study, one-fifth of all plant and animal species qualify for the Red List of Threatened Species, meaning they are "facing wipeout." So, basically, if we work hard, we can probably finish them off by 2100.
It was all theoretical when the pirates were patrolling the waters off of Somalia. But it's getting too close for comfort: now, there are Mexican pirates. Right on the border. Shooting at American jet-skis.