Nicole Richie is Pregnant Again

Nicole Richie, the reality tv star and daughter of singer Lionel Richie, is pregnant with her second child. She currently only a few months pregnant and she and her husband, named Joel Madden, currently have an one year old daughter named Harlow. Joel announced the news on his personal blog on February 21st.

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Barack Obama Officially Elected President

Major news companies are reporting that Barack Obama has defeated John McCain to become the first African American president of the United States. Obama had announced his presidential candidacy two years ago and now he will become the next president of the USA.

Rapper 50 Cent Sues Taco Bell

The rapper 50 Cent is suing Taco Bell because he says that the restaurant has used his name without his permission in their advertising that asks him to call himself 99 Cent. In a federal lawsuit, he also claimed that the Taco Bell print ad features him asking to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent, or 99 Cent. The ad is part of a Taco Bell "Why Pay More?" campaign that promotes items that cost less than a dollar.

The company supposedly sent a bogus letter that requested the name change to the news media but not to 50 Cent. He didn't find out about the letter or that he was featured in the ad campaigns until he saw a news report about it. He wants $4 million in damages.

Poor Haitians Having to Eat Dirt

Due to rising food prices, many poor people in Haiti can’t afford food and have to resort to eating mud and dirt. A traditional Haitian remedy for curing hunger pains involves making cookies from dried yellow dirt from Haiti’s central plateau. For a long time the mud has been used by pregnant women and children as an antacid and a source of calcium.

Food prices around the entire world have increased due to higher oil prices and oil is needed for fertilizer, irrigation, and transportation. The increase in demand for biofuels is also affecting the food markets. The Caribbean islands depend heavily on imported goods and food prices have risen 40 percent in some areas.

The 2007 hurricane season caused floods and crop damage so bad that the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency had to declare states of emergency in Haiti and other Caribbean countries. Leaders in the Caribbean held an emergency summit in December to talk about reducing food taxes and making large regional farms to decrease the dependence on imported goods.

The cost of the dirt isn’t free. The dirt to make 100 cookies costs $5. About 80 percent of the Haitian population lives on less than $2 per day. Merchants would bring the dirt by truck from a central town to the food market. Women would buy the dirt and then process it into mud cookies. They would have to strain out the rocks and clumps from the dirt on a sheet and stir in shortening and salt to make the cookies. The cookies would be left out in the sun to dry. Some people sell the cookies in the market or on the street to make money.

It is not safe to eat the mud cookies because dirt can have deadly parasites or toxins. The cookies can also cause malnutrition. A positive thing about the cookies though is that they can strengthen the immunity of fetuses in pregnant women.

CNN Host Nancy Grace Hospitalized

Nancy Grace, the CNN Headline News host, was hospitalized this past weekend due to blood clots in her lungs. Last week, she gave birth to twins and it is said that the blood clots were caused by her pregnancy. During her pregnancy, she developed fluid build-up in her lungs and the doctor said that they should induce labor early. Her twins were born two months premature but they are healthy and doing well.

Rapper Beenie Man Faces Tax Evasion Charges

The Jamaican rapper and singer Beenie Man is facing charges of tax evasion. He was released Monday on $21,100 bail after he appeared in court. It is estimated that he owes about $661,000 in taxes where he lives in the Caribbean.

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Rudy Giuliani Says He is Prepared For An Alien Attack

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Diddy Gets Into Fight at Nightclub

The Rapper P Diddy, Sean Combs, allegedly punched a man in the face at a New York nightclub after they got into an altercation over a woman. Diddy punched the man, Steven Acevedo, in the face twice until his bodyguards broke up the fight. Diddy was not arrested or charged for the situation but police plan to talk to him about the fight.

Woman Loses Thousands of Dollars in Lawsuit for Downloading Music

A woman in Minnesota, named Jammie Thomas, was court ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing copyrighted music online. The record industry wants to make an example out of her and send the message that downloading and sharing music is not okay or legal.

Thomas is ordered to pay the six record companies that sued her for $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that they are focusing on in this case. They say she shared a total of 1,702 songs. This is the first time that one of the music industry's lawsuits went to trial. Most people settle and pay the companies a few thousand dollars. Thomas thought that she didn't do anything wrong and proceeded with the lawsuit against her. Thomas claimed she didn't own a file sharing account with Kazaa but evidence showed that the Internet address belonged to her.

Jammie Thomas is 30 years old and lives paycheck to paycheck and now she could get a fourth of her paycheck garnished for the rest of her life. Including the attorney fees, she could owe nearly half a million dollars.

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Study Shows that Alcohol Increases Risk of Cancer

A recent study has show that alcohol can increase the chances of getting breast cancer in women. Studies have shown a link between drinking alcohol and breast cancer but they have yet to determine if certain types of alcohol is more dangerous than others.

The study analyzed the drinking habits of 70,033 women and asked them various questions during health exams between the years 1978 and 1985. By the year 2004, 2,829 of those women had been diagnosed with breast cancer. The study found that women who had one or two drinks a day increased their risk by 10 percent and women who had more than three drinks a day increased their risk by 30 percent.

Experts think that alcohol raises hormone levels in the blood to levels that could cause cancer. Doctors say that other factors, such as genetics, obesity, and age are more important factors that can raise the risk of breast cancer.

Usher and Tameka Will Have a Baby Boy

The singer Usher and his wife Tameka announced that they are having a baby boy. He also stated, "I just want my son to fully be coherent and to be healthy, first and foremost ... You can wish for a million and one things, but I [just] hope that my son has the same energy I had as a child." But then Usher added, "Hopefully, he won't be as bad as me."

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Woman Arrested Wearing Fake Bomb at Airport

In Boston a woman, named Star Simpson, was arrested at gunpoint after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a fake bomb strapped to her chest. The fake bomb was made out of a computer circuit board, wiring, and Play-Doh putty.

A Massachusetts Port Authority official notified the police and troopers tracked Simpson down outside of Terminal C. She was arrested and it was determined the bomb was fake. Simpson is a 19 year old sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Student Tasered at John Kerry Speech

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A College Application Causes Bomb Scare

It is reported that on Friday emergency crews had to evacuate and Eastern Illinois University building after a campus postal carrier found a package which had no return address, was poorly written with many misspellings and addressed to the university. There was some tape over the package and it had a rather strange appearance.

The package looked strange enough that the police called the bomb squad. Explosives investigators x-rayed the package and blocked off the street before they noticed that the package only contained an application to the school. They wouldn't say if the bomb scare would affect the person's chances for admission to the school but it would be processed like the rest of the applications.

A Thief and Victim Meet Again

It is reported that in Prescott, Arizona, A woman whose purse was stolen and the thief who stole it by chance stood next to each other at a Prescott bookstore and as she complained about the unauthorized use of her credit card he was there to get some money.

The victim went to the store to report that someone had stolen her purse and used her credit card fraudulently to buy $200 worth of DVDs. Several minutes later while the victim was standing there a man went to the counter and tried to return eight DVDs in exchange for cash. At the time the two didn't recognize each other.

When the manager came to the counter to handle both transactions she immediately made a connection with the situation. That is when the thief ran out of the store.

The thief admitted to the police that he had stolen the purse and used the victim's credit card at the bookstore, a grocery store, and a Walmart that totaled up to $716 worth of goods.

A Cat Predicts Patient's Deaths

It is reported that in a Rhode Island nursing home there is a cat that seems to mysteriously know when a patient is going to die. The cat curls up to the patients during their final hours of life. He was observed in 25 cases and his accuracy led the staff to call the patient's family members once he curls up next to the patient. Usually the patient only lives for four hours after that.

The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a small kitten and raised in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed that the cat would make his own rounds, like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients and then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. The doctors say that most of the patients are so ill that they don't even realize he's there.

The nursing home staff are okay with the cat being there because his warnings give families a better chance at saying goodbye to their loved ones.