AMERICAN Student Says an Apple Store Employee Refused to Sell Her an iPad. Why? Because She Can Speak Farsi.

    An Apple Store employee refused to sell an iPad to an Iranian-American girl. He stated that apple had a strict policy against selling merchandise to Iran, due to current international relations between Iran and the US. The Georgia college student and her dad were shocked and returned the next day to explain that […]

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Man Wearing “Grandpa’s To Do List” T-Shirt Is Arrested for Sexual Assault

                59-year-old Richard Whitehead is facing two felony counts of second degree sexual assault. Whitehead, who reportedly confessed to police that he inappropriately touched two girls, ages 6 & 10, has been in the Faulkner County Jail since Thursday night.        The  59-year-old grandfather from Conway, Ark. […]

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Mitt Romney’s Fund-raising Flurry Post Supreme Court Ruling Was Announced

        After Thursday’s supreme court ruling, stating that President Obama’s healthcare law did not, in-fact violate the Constitution, Mitt Romney’s campaign receives a flood of donations. However, both presidential campaigns are citing fund-raising spikes following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care reform laws. Obama’s campaign called the other side’s […]

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Kate Middleton Demoted? Duchess Ordered To Curtsy To Princesses Eugenie & Beatrice

    Lest you thought the life of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was a nonstop fairy tale of posh parties, gratis fashion and domestic bliss with Prince William, think again. Even duchesses can’t escape a bit of drama from the in-laws, according to new reports that Kate has gotten a bit of a demotion in regards to […]

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Dad gives his Daughter a Graduation Gift 13 Years in the Making

  Bryan Martin has been working on his daughters graduation gift since she entered kindergarten.       Bryan Martin purchased a gift for his daughter’s high school graduation, which happened earlier this month about thirteen years ago and he somehow kept it hidden this whole time, and his, in his daughter’s words, “moving, touching, nostalgic, […]

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A Historian’s View of America’s Long Debate on Immigration

Special Report: America By the Numbers Who We Are •A Demographic Snapshot of America The country continues to grow, with help from immigration •The Very Unnatural Naturalization Process A TIME editor describes what it’s like to become an American citizen •America’s Long Debate on Immigration A historian describes how our attitudes have and haven’t changed Where We Live •A Geographic Breakdown Compared with other developing countries, the nation is still just a vast prairie What We Believe • How We View God Your view of God may shape your morals and politics • Behind America’s Different Perceptions of God Researchers who divided religion into four view of God say that’s a better indicator than denomination • Denomination Nation See where the largest religious groups live across the U.S. How We Live • America’s Leisure Time We have more free time than we did 40 years ago, but it doesn’t feel that way What We Buy • How We Spend and Why Experts say that as our population increases, we’re going to feel an even greater pressure to spend Otis Graham, author of Unguarded Gates — A History of America’s Immigration Crisis and a professor emeritus at University of California-Santa Barbara, talks to TIME’s Lee S.

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