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WASHINGTON — U.S. residents born after Dec. 1, 1964, will need to have new Homeland Security-approved drivers licenses by Dec. 1, 2014, if they want to us their ID to board an airplane or enter a federal building, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday.

Older drivers will have until 2017, he said.

The new rules do not require states to issue the new identification cards, but residents of states that do not participate will not be able to use their driver's licenses as proof of identity at federal agencies.

The Birds And The Bees In A Podcast? Wisconsin Mom Runs Wry Sex-Ed Show

But this isn't pornography; it's a provocative podcast that shoves sex-ed into the 21st century, starring a PTA mom with a past,

Hasler talks matter-of-factly about things that make most parents cringe, such as birth control, first-time sex, and dating.

"If you are in junior high and you are dating someone out of high school, he's a pedophile, and pedophilia is a disease," Hasler says in one show.

The mother of three from Waukesha, Wisc., says she's able to do because she learned sex-ed the hard way -- when she got pregnant at 18 after a one-night-stand.

"One birth control method we don't recommend is the 'pull and pray.' That's the reason I have two of my three kids," Hasler said.

That kind of brutal honesty has made the Midwest Teen Sex Show one of the most popular health podcasts on the Web - with more than 60,000 subscribers tuning into to the twice-monthly episodes.

Some of her upcoming shows are going to be homosexuality in high school and porn.

Hasler says: "We're encouraging both boys and girls to be responsible for having safe sex. And we're also telling them that they don't necessarily have to have sex at all."

 

 

(CBS/AP) A mother found in her home with the decomposing bodies of her four daughters was charged Thursday with murder after reportedly telling investigators that the children were possessed by demons and died in their sleep.

Banita Jacks, 33, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and appeared in District of Columbia Superior Court. She told police that the deaths occurred before a utility turned off her electricity, which prosecutors said was in September 2007, according to charging documents.

Around 30 members of Banita Jacks's family and friends attended Thursday evening's hearing. They left the courthouse without comment, reports CBS News affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington.

The bodies of the girls - ages 5 to 17 - were found Wednesday when deputy U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at the apartment in southeast Washington.

Jacks told investigators that the children were possessed by demons and began dying in their sleep, one by one, within a seven-day period, documents say. She also said she had not fed her children for a substantial time before their deaths.

 Former Olympic champion Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison and ordered to perform 800 hours of community service for lying to federal agents probing illegal steroid use and a wide-ranging financial scam.

It's happened again. A teacher is accused of having sex with a student and, like many times before, cell phone calls and texting reportedly had a role in sexually abusing a minor. The same cell phones that parents buy as safety devices for their children are the gadgets that pedophiles and predators use to prep kids for sexual encounters, experts and police say

The latest case is out of Pennsylvania. Police say a 26-year-old P.E. teacher admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old student in the school's parking lot.

A set of British twins separated at birth get married without realizing they are related
The brother and sister, adopted by separate parents, were given an annulment
They did not find out they were blood relatives until after they were married

NEW ORLEANS (Jan. 9) -- Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering — including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion.

A whopping $3,014,170,389,176,410 is the dollar figure so far sought from some of the largest claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.

Living Dolls
Explore the extraordinary lives of women who buy hand-crafted life-like dolls called 'Re-Borns'. Treated as real infants and costing hundreds of dollars these 'human' babies cry, squirm and are the objects of intense affection by their 'mothers'. Loved like real babies, they're taken for walks, bathed and even have their diapers changed.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/myfakebaby

 

The final severance package for Juanita Jordan, which includes the couple's seven-acre estate in Chicago and custody of their three children, is expected to be agreed before the first anniversary of their last row – which was said to be about money.

The settlement eclipses the most expensive celebrity divorce on public record, in which Neil Diamond paid his ex-wife Marcia Murphey £75m. After licking his wounds, the singer, who had married the television production assistant before he became famous, won plaudits for his chivalrous verdict. "She's worth every penny," he said.

Deuce of Davenport thinks this could spark another MJ comeback; that's a little far-fetched, seeing as Jordan's still insanely wealthy. But who knows, maybe this will heighten his involvement in the Charlotte Bobcats. He's invested in them heavily, and all of a sudden those dollars count just a little bit more. In the days before the draft, Jordan emerged as more than a letter-writing figurehead, but he could probably run the organization if he wanted to

whats going to happen to Social Security..... i want to know what the gov is going to do about all the money my husband and i not to mention everyone else in the country

so what can we sue the gov... if our money isnt there when we get old..... i'd like to know peoples thoughts

the gov can spend money on just about everything under the sun but not on the important things......