Bob Sullivan of MSN is reporting that gun-rights advocates won a major legal victory last week when a California judge struck down as unconstitutional a law that would have effectively banned online sales of handgun ammunition just days before it was to have taken effect. While gun-rights supporters cheered the ruling, supporters of the law…

After two years, Obama’s chief energy adviser, Carol Browner, is leaving the White House. Slate.com reports that Browner’s role in the West Wing waned significantly after the administration’s efforts to achieve comprehensive climate-change legislation went down in flames in 2009. Others suggest that Browner, who was former President Clinton’s EPA chief, is being pushed out…

Ted “Golden Voice” Williams, who went from being homeless to gaining worldwide fame because of his tremendous voice, has checked himself out of rehab against medical advice. Less than two weeks after checking into Origins Recovery Center for drug and alcohol addiction, Williams, who checked himself into rehab after a controversial appearance on Dr. Phil,…

The Richmond-Times Dispatch is reporting that a newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland’s Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police. This disclosure is being described as “the smoking gun” by victims groups that needed to show that the Vatican enforced a worldwide culture of cover-up. The letter, obtained…

The Washington Post is reporting that the House is now in the middle of an “hours-long” debate over repealing the national health care legislation. In what many surmised would be arguments about doing away with the legislation, the conversation has shifted to examine how the current bill could be reworked. Some Republicans said that elements…

Talk show host Piers Morgan is becoming the Barbara Walters of the airwaves. Morgan has interviewed two of the most powerful women in the world — first media mogul Oprah Winfrey and now former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Like Walters, Morgan was able to get the two to open up about a variety of…

Some folks obviously don’t understand the meaning of MLK Day. Such is the case in Spokane, Wash., where a backpack containing a pipe bomb was found along a parade route honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. EURweb is reporting that the device, capable of inflicting “multiple casualties,” was discovered Monday morning by three parade workers…

The New York Daily News is reporting that Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords may be leaving the hospital by Friday. According to her “stunned” doctors, Giffords, who was shot in the head during the Arizona massacre, is making such rapid progress that she could be released from the hospital soon. Dr. Michael Lemole stated that they…

CNN is reporting that a 14-year-old South Carolina boy used the rifle his father bought him as a birthday present to shoot the man to death, along with a great-aunt, and critically wounded his grandmother, police said Tuesday. The boy called police just before midnight and calmly informed them that he had shot his aunt,…