Pop culture
U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:37.A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters. read more »
Oak Park student circulates list degrading female students (on Facebook)
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 23:02.Girls, parents band together to press for strong disciplinary action read more »
Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:30.NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee read more »
India students suspended for rude Facebook messages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:10.A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook. read more »
Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:47.Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today. read more »
Report Says Many Youths Are ‘Too Fat to Fight’
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 11:08.A panel of retired military leaders has joined the fight against childhood obesity, saying that unhealthy school lunches are making America's youth unfit for military service and therefore pose a thre read more »
Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account
Submitted by Mrs C on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 07:51.An Arkansas boy is suing his mom because she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted slanderous remarks. read more »
Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:25.(CNN) -- Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.
"There's nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly. read more »
Injunction by Twitter: Stopping a Web Impostor
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 21:14.British members of Parliament and their prospective challengers are thronging onto social-networking sites with all the enthusiasm and grace of dads getting down on the dance floor. read more »
Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:02.The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight. read more »
High school holds 'Pull up your Pants' day
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 20:13."Pull up your pants." That's what school administrators and teachers are telling the young men of a South Florida high school. read more »
Transcript of SEEdebate Discussion During Presidential debate 9/26/2008
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 22:32.9/26/08 09:02 PM Newsbyte Here we go!
9/26/08 09:02 PM traip-gagnon how many times will we see candidates tie in foreign policy to the economic crisis :) read more »
Barack Obama Makes An 'American Promise' During Acceptance Speech:First black major-party candidate gives historical speech to 7
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 05:03.With the burden of history on his shoulders and the expectations of more than 70,000 filling the air, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama turned a page in American politics Thursday read more »
School drug tests coming: Finney High School receives federal grant for random screenings of some students.
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 15:36.Finney High School in Detroit received a federal grant Wednesday to start randomly testing some of its students for drug use as early as this fall. read more »
Stonehenge revelers celebrate summer solstice (From June 22, 2007)
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 22:21.Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers gathered at Stonehenge today to cheer the dawn of the longest day of the year - the summer solstice. read more »
YouTube law fight 'threatens net'
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 06:32.A one billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube threatens internet freedom, according to its owner Google. read more »
Visceral canvasses (Artist in Dubai)
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 07:34.Jeffar Khaldi, at his studio in Al Quoz Industrial Area. Jeffrey E. Biteng / The National read more »
The Great American Movie Theater
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 06:41.“So – is movie going dead?” asks North Texas theaterman Jeremy Devine, surveying a packed house one recent weekday afternoon at the Ridgmar outpost of his company, Rave Motion Pictures, in west read more »
44 students disciplined for T-shirts
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 10:48.Like the phrase emblazoned across the front of their controversial T-shirts says, 44 Livonia high-school seniors were "Puschin' It To The Limit."
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Meridian Middle School Considers Tougher Dress Code
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 07:21.By next year, kids attending Meridian Middle School could be wearing what amounts to school uniforms. read more »
Teens In Taped Beating Could Be Charged As Adults
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 18:23.LAKELAND -- The Polk County Sheriff says he wants everyone connected to a taped beating of a 16-year-old, which showed up on MySpace.com, tried as adults. read more »
T.I. Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charges
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 08:33.Rapper T.I. has admitted having unregistered machine guns and being a felon in possession of a firearm. read more »
Finding political news online, the young pass it on
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 14:31.Senator Barack Obama's videotaped response to President George W. read more »
Mambo Pioneer “Cachao” Dies at 89
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 07:59.Israel “Cachao” Lopez, the Cuban bassist and composer who has invented the mambo music style, died Saturday at the age of 89. read more »
Teen Screen Time Sometimes Hits 40 Hours
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 08:34.Some teens spend as much time using a computer or watching TV and videos as it takes to work a full-time job.
That news comes from a Canadian study of nearly 1,300 teens in Montreal. read more »
