Battling food shortages, the Venezuelan government is rolling out a new ID system that is either a grocery loyalty card with extra muscle or the most dramatic step yet towards rationing in Venezuela, depending on who is describing it.  MORE

Russian video that made the whole world cry MORE

This is what happens when shoppers shop at these 99 cent and dollar stores. These discount stores pay minimum wages and are hurting the middle class workers. MORE

A character who leaves behind his atheist convictions in the recently released God’s Not Dead movie was inspired by the real-life Lasik and cataract surgeon, Tennessee resident Wing Mang. MORE

Encouraging news. If the government gave more tax breaks for Mom’s with children to stay home, it could even solve the unemployment problem and the country would benefit from future better adults. MORE

“Unsealed: Alien Files,” which aired on the Science Channel, speculates that “new evidence may prove the Vatican is hiding actual aliens from the public.” Either that or the channel will rename itself the Sci-fi Channel. MORE

A veteran Los Angeles police sergeant is suing the city claiming he was discriminated against because of his Wiccan religion, weeks after his wife filed a similar lawsuit. Sgt. A.J. DeBellis, who joined the LAPD in 1990, filed a complaint Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging discrimination, harassment and retaliation, according to City News Service. MORE

Jean-Claude Zamwita’s family abandoned the solemn organ music and stained glass windows of the Catholic church in 2006, eight years after the genocide in Rwanda, and started visiting an evangelical church with tambourines and drumming. MORE

Kerry is just taking the heat for the Obama administration’s policies.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry bristled at fierce criticism from U.S. senators on Tuesday, saying he would accept blame for foreign policy failures but was at least trying to make progress on Middle East peace and the crises in Syria and Ukraine. MORE

“I took a helicopter ride from the occupied territories across and just felt personally how extraordinary that was to understand, the military risk that Israel faces every day.” – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, in a comment he made during a speech on March 29 at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas, about his experience on a family trip to Israel two years ago.  Reminded almost immediately that his reference to the “occupied territories” was deeply offensive to Israelis, who do not concede that their presence in the West Bank area is an occupation, the governor promptly apologized. MORE

It’s Washington’s nightmare scenario: an aggressive Moscow deciding it’s time to arm Tehran with sophisticated weapons. And it may be closer to reality than you think. Tensions between Russia and the West are hitting a new peak. And in this face-off, Moscow has an extraordinary piece of leverage: a super-sophisticated, bomber-killing missile that it once threatened to sell to Iran. MORE

A Toronto-area father has won the right to have his son exempted from all religious programs at a local Roman Catholic high school, a ruling that could set a precedent across Ontario. A three-member panel of the Ontario divisional court ruled Oliver Erazo’s son Jonathan should not have to attend any religious liturgies or retreats at Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School in Brampton under provisions in the provincial Education Act. MORE