BALTIMORE — Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton‘s torrid 2012 season now includes his first career four-home-run game, all of them two-run shots in a 10-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles. “Obviously it’s, other than being in the World Series, the highlight of my big-league career,” Hamilton said. Hamilton homered off Jake Arrieta in the firstContinue Reading
CALGARY — He’s not quite out of diapers yet, but a Calgary toddler has become the youngest person in Canada to join the ranks of the international high IQ society, Mensa. Meet Anthony Popa Urria. At two years and nine months, Anthony has a staggeringly high IQ score of 154,Continue Reading
Loyola High seniors teach economics to junior high students at a Pasadena-based center that helps educate youths who were abused or need special attention. There was a shy seventh-grade boy sitting at his desk in the far back of the classroom, head down, looking bored and uninterested.Then Loyola High kickerContinue Reading
Scarlett Johansson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Wednesday, and the 27-year-old actress says she has her mom to thank for her success. “One of the most important things [my mom] did growing up was that she always said to me that I could do whatever IContinue Reading
Miley Cyrus is not just an actress, pop singer and multi-millionaire, she is an animal lover, too. Miley Cyrus founded a little puppy left abandoned in a box in front of a Walmart on May 2. The 19-year-old tweeted to her 5.6 million followers, “He was left in a boxContinue Reading
KinderTown, the startup behind the educational iOS app store for parents (and honestly, a personal fav) is expanding its focus today. According to feedback from its users, the number one complaint was that KinderTown wasn’t available for older children. Now that changes, as the service will bump up its supportedContinue Reading
OK outdoorsmen and women, are you ready for the Supermoon? NASA scientists say this full moon Saturday night will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than any full moon this year. The scientific term is “perigee moon,” but all we need to know is that it’s going toContinue Reading
Editor’s note: Please be aware that this review may contain spoilers. (CNN) — A celebration of specialness, Joss Whedon’s slick blockbuster “The Avengers” presents what may be the ultimate team: half a dozen Marvel Comics superheroes for the price of one. You don’t need me to tell youContinue Reading
Jiroemon Kimura, the world’s oldest living man, celebrated his 115th birthday on Thursday and shared his secret to a long life. “I’m delighted beyond words,” Kimura told The Telegraph. Kimura, who lives in Kyoto, Japan, isn’t just the world’s oldest living man, but the third oldest man ever in history and oneContinue Reading
Mind-reading robots? It’s not as scary as it sounds. Researchers in Switzerland are developing a robot that can respond to human thoughts, and may one day help immobile people better interact with the external world. On Tuesday, scientists from Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne marked a milestone in this research,Continue Reading