TORONTO, Ontario, Canada - June 27, 2010 - More than 500 people have been arrested in Toronto after a night of rioting that saw police cars burned in the financial district and storefront windows broken as leaders of the world's largest economies gathered in the city for the G20 summit.

HOUSTON, Texas - June 23, 2010 - A Texas man has sued his local police department, saying he was arrested for taking a picture of a police officer when the officer entered his home without permission.

WASHINGTON - June 16, 2010 - A Northwest woman is devastated after she says her pet of 13 years was shot and killed by D.C. police.

Marietta Robinson, 62, is still visibly traumatized after witnessing her 13-year-old companion, Wrinkles, be shot and killed Tuesday night.

Robinson says the pitbull mix grew to be more than 100 pounds.

"I've had her since she was the size of my wrist... I still can't believe this," said Robinson.

WASHINGTON - June 18, 2010 - The government recently used red tape to force Louisiana to stop using 16 barges force Louisiana to stop using 16 barges that were cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico by sucking thousands of gallons of oil out of Louisiana's oil-soaked waters.

GAINESVILLE, Florida - June 17, 2010 - Gainesville police are reviewing an incident in which an officer responding to a burglary call Wednesday released a police dog on a 10-year-old boy, who was bitten.

Capt. Ed Book said it is routine that K-9 bites be reviewed. He said police later learned the woman who had reported the burglary allegedly has mental health issues.

LONDON, England - June 19, 2010 - Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun.

They found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument.

“There is no silent majority.  The only thing that exists is an unthinking majority and unthinking they will remain…”

These are the words of Harold W. Rosenthal, former administrative assistant to New York Senator Jacob Javits. Rosenthal has made other odious comments regarding his general contempt for the American people. Regardless of whether you think his opinions to be true or false, he was a man of some influence and dubious prestige.

Rosenthal’s statement is enough to turn my stomach and make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.  Nevertheless, he accurately described that the American people have been controlled and manipulated.  He branded us as “unthinking” and condemned us to remain that way forever.

LONDON, England - June 11, 2010 - Researchers have found that in the heat of battle they have the same chemicals running through their bloodstreams as protective mothers, meaning they develop incredibly strong bonds with each other but become extremely aggressive to outsiders.

The effect resolves around the hormone oxytocin which is released at times of stress and when people socialise with each other.

But the scientists have found that this chemical, often referred to as the love or bonding hormone, also makes them - like mothers - incredibly aggressive to outsiders.

LONDON, England - June 8, 2010 - The "invisibility cloaks" being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light - both considered implausible developments when the first working invisibility cloak was demonstrated just four years ago. But the technology that makes objects vanish looks set to be more useful for the safety of offshore structures and for unlocking cosmological secrets than for would-be Harry Potter impersonators.

BEIJING, China - June 8, 2010 - A Chinese farmer is fighting off property developers who want his land, firing rockets from a homemade cannon made out of a wheelbarrow and pipes, state media said on Tuesday.