Matt Tribe of Ogden, Utah used Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Pass to feed the homeless and documented the project in a video called Random Acts of Pasta. Is this seemingly random act of kindness merely a shameless PR stunt? We look at the video and the use of viral marketing, in this Lip News clip with Mark Sovel and …

A Facebook threat is being looked at in Supreme Court case Elonis v. United States, which will weigh in on the free-speech rights of people who use violent or threatening language on Facebook and other social media sites. The court is also looking at Eminem lyrics and the creative freedom of people to frame threats as expression that is protected …

A family in Canada lived with the corpse of their husband and father for six months awaiting his resurrection. The devout Christian family of Peter Wald believed that he would rise from the dead and prayed on a daily basis for his body to come back to life. The wife, Kaling Wald, pleaded guilty to failing to notify police, or …

Pope Francis has condemned the West for selling chemical weapons, responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, to Syria. The pope said the Middle East did not have the ability to manufacture the chemical weapons that were deployed against Syrian civilians last year. Do the Pope’s comments hold any validity? We look at the validity of his claims, in this Lip …

Etan Patz disappeared in New York in 1977 and launched a huge search that ultimately failed to turn up the 6 year old. After years, Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing the child, but strong questions are being raised about the mental stability of the confessed murderer. We discuss how the evidence finally brought suspicion to Jose Ramos, and the theories …

Britain has banned BDSM sexual fetish acts, which they believe to be offensive and dangerous, in pornographic videos. The list of banned acts includes spanking, caning, female ejaculation, aggressive whipping, penetration by any object associated with violence, verbal abuse, water sports, strangulation, facesitting and fisting. Is the UK being too uptight about sex, and should they be educating instead of …

The Iraqi army was caught with more than 50,000 false names, known as ghost soldiers, on their payroll after an investigation into army corruption. The term ghost solider refers to people whose names appear on military rolls and who are paid salaries, but are not in military service. Is this corruption one of the reasons why the army has struggled …