Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan, will pen the biopic telling the life story of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The movie about Hugh Hefner will be released by Warner Bros. The writer behind The Queen and Frost/Nixon movies, currently in talks with producer Jerry Weintraub, The Hollywood Reporter says. 86 year-old Hefner has already held a meeting with the screenwriter and then posted on his... 

­It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought. Researchers have released the findings of an intense study into the aftermath of last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and warn that the United... 

The world’s most elite men will meet in secrecy for the annual Bohemian Grove gathering this week. And although the public won’t be allowed inside the elusive event, protesters will be on the other side of the fence as part of Occupy Bohemian Grove. Demonstrators from around the world will descend on a plot of land around 70 miles north of San Francisco, California this week, but they won’t... 

A home sale sign in Stockton, California, the United States, February 7, 2012 The city of Stockton in the US state of California is set to become the largest American city ever to declare bankruptcy as the financial troubles of the US deepen. A formal bankruptcy filing may come as early as Wednesday following the failure of negotiations between Stockton’s officials and creditors. The northern... 

Facebook users in California have filed a lawsuit against the social network seeking damages for invasion of their privacy and improper tracking. The suit consolidates 21 related cases filed in more than a dozen states in 2011 and early 2012 alleging that Facebook tracked internet use of its members even after they logged out of their accounts. Lawyers in the suit seek up to USD 10,000 for each Facebook... 

A bizarre Foreign Ministry report circulating in the Kremlin today states that this Friday past (11 May) Russian Envoy Vladimir Vinokurov, the Consulate General of San Francisco, was approached near his hotel room during a visit to Los Angles by an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identifying himself as Stephen Ivens [photo top right] who warned that he and a former... 

The virus-based electrode produced a small current enough to flash "1" on a liquid-crystal display. A team of US researchers in California have used viruses to build tiny devices that gather energy from mechanical forces and convert it into electricity. “More research is needed, but our work is a promising first step toward the development of personal power generators, actuators for... 

Silicon Valley’s Mozilla Corporation has tasked themselves with extinguishing a fire, and no, it’s not what you have in mind. Mozilla, the Mountain View, California-based developers responsible for creating the hugely successful Firefox Web browser, has issued a statement publically condemning the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA. In a memo sent to Forbes’ data security... 

Over the last year the threat of radiation hitting the United States from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has gone from a conspiracy theory, to a possibility, to a flat out fact. Now, scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have confirmed that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US west coast. In a segment on the Big Picture with Thom Hartmann, Kevin Kamps,... 

Few argue that smoking is bad for you. However, in Elk Grove, outside of Sacramento, California, government bureaucrats are ready to exploit this fact in order to outlaw people from smoking in their homes. The Elk Grove city council will take up the ban this week, according to CBS Sacramento. The ordinance would outlaw smoking in all apartments in the city. CBS quotes people who favor the unwarranted... 

San Onofre nuclear plant, California A leak at a Southern California nuclear facility that regularly provides power to roughly 1.4 million households has caused the plant to shut down a reactor. Despite officials insisting that everything will be perfectly alright at the San Onofre nuclear site, this is not the first time as of late that power plants have raised serious questions about their safety... 

Police in Oakland, California, have used tear-gas and flash-grenades as a 2,000-strong Occupy Oakland march turned violent, with some protesters claiming that rubber bullets were also fired into the crowd. At least 400 people were arrested. Initially, authorities had said 200-300 people were detained. But later the figure was revised to over 400 arrests, reports Reuters citing the Oakland emergency... 

A disturbing report prepared by the Ministry of Defense circulating in the Kremlin today states that Russian Military Officials were rebuffed by NATO yesterday after questions were raised regarding massive troop and war equipment movements in the United States region of California and said to involve over 78,000 soldiers from various countries. Reports coming in from the United States verify these... 

When he’s not recording tunes like “Personal OG” and “National Anthem (Fu*k the World),” rapper Freddie Gibbs likes to travel. He also likes to smoke weed. A real lot. Somehow for Gibbs, real name Fredrick Tipton, he didn’t think there would be much of a problem with combining those two passions lately, even if it involved the US government’s notoriously tough Transportation Security... 

Up and out: This friendly octopus wandered around on dry land for about 2 minutes after it climbed out of the water It’s a creature that’s so shy, scientists know little about its behavior in the wild. But an Eastern Pacific Red Octopus outside San Francisco, California, was friendly enough that it hoisted itself from the water and walked about on dry land, much to the amazement of spectators...