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NEW YORK, New York ( The Adobo Chronicles® ) - If you have been diagnosed with hypertension, or you simply experience an occasional elevation of your blood pressure, there's good news (or bad, depending on how you look at it). Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist Dr. Solomon H. Snyder was able to prove in extensive research that…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles®) - The fourth of July would have been a perfect day to welcome the 51st state of the United States, but it seems that may have to wait for yet another year. A U.S. territory, Puerto Rico, and a former U.S. colony, the Philippines, are the top contenders to become the latest…
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - In 2010, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh promised that if Obamacare became law in the U.S., he would leave the country and move to Costa Rica in 5 years. Well, it's been 5 years and Obamacare is the law of the land, upheld not once,…
SARANGANI, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) -  No rags to riches story could be more inspiring than that of Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao. Growing up very poor in his home province of Sarangani where at a very young age he had to fend for himself and his family, Pacquiao rose to become one of the…
SAN FRANCISCO, California ( The Adobo Chronicles® ) - You've heard the phrase, "Don't mess with Texas," before. But Californians have just made one thing clear to The New York Times and to the world: "Don't mess with Guacamole!" California  avocado growers, taqueria owners, and guacamole fans criticized NYT for suggesting that people add English green peas…
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (The Adobo Chronicles®) - What if they held a beauty pageant and nobody watched it? Well, that's exactly what was going to happen to the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe pageants after NBC Universal and Univision both severed their relationship with pageant owner Donald Trump. The two networks fired Trump after his…
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) - Police officers, for the most part, are rewarded or promoted for going beyond the "call of duty." But not this officer with the New York Police Department (NYPD).  He got fired. The still unnamed officer went beyond  his call of duty on Sunday by dancing with a gay man…
SILICON VALLEY, California (The Adobo Chronicles®) - From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from sea to shining sea, rainbow-colored filters are showing up on Facbook pages -- all in the name of marriage equality. Facebook profile photos are now sporting the colors of the gay flag. It all started soon after the U.S. Supreme Court issued…
DALLAS, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles®) - The Lone Star State is suing the U.S. Supreme Court over Friday's ruling which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Governor Greg Abbott announced today that Texas will file a class-action law suit on Monday asking the Supreme Court to void the ruling of the Supreme Court. “The Supreme…
ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles®) - It looks like Don Lemon is not the only weird journalist in the CNN newsroom. The cable news network today aired a breaking news segment about London's Pride Parade in which a reporter claimed that she witnessed a man waving an ISIS flag. CNN, which prides itself to be the…
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (The Adobo Chronicles® ) - When Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal officially launched his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 elections, he donned a "white face" make-up to mimic that of a clown. Jindal is the 13th Republican to announce a presidential bid. The governor was made up as a clown…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) - The mainstream media have a tendency to whitewash news events that happen in The White House. But not us.  We report the news exactly the way it happened. When Obama was heckled during an LGBT event at The White House by a transgender Latina woman who admits being…
MIAMI, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles ®) - Real Estate mogul and owner of the Miss Universe Pageant Donald Trump announced last week he is running for president of the United States.  In his  kick-off speech, he said that if elected, he will build a "great wall" on the border and make Mexico pay for it because Mexico is…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles®) - As Barack Obama was speaking at a White House event honoring LGBT Pride Month on Wednesday, a heckler started yelling at the President. The heckler was later identified as Jennicet Gutiérrez, an undocumented transgender immigrant who was protesting deportations under the Obama administration. An immigration group claimed Gutiérrez was a founding member of Familia TQLM…
ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles®) - During an interview this week with Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, FOX news commentator Megyn Kelly declared she was an Independent, having voted for both Democrats and Republicans. During a phone interview with Glenn Beck, CNN anchor Don Lemon admitted he was a conservative. Today, both news cable networks said…
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® )  - The City and County of San Francisco is trying its best to rid itself of the reputation of being one of the places in the U.S. with the most expensive rent, what with the monthly apartment rent averaging in excess of $4,000. As more and more high-rise condominiums…
LOS ANGELES, California (The Adobo Chronicles ® ) - Move over Macarena. Psy, it's time to retire your horsey dance. All across America, people are doing the chicken dance: men, women, children, senior citizens, gay, straight -- in the streets of San Francisco to the dance clubs in Miami. The dance which until recently could…
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles®) - 'The Golden Girls' is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, the show centered on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. Betty White…
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles®) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry characterized the recent shooting in Charleston as an "accident" during an interview on Friday, accusing President Obama of using the massacre, which claimed nine lives, as a pretext for pushing a gun control agenda. "This is the MO of this administration anytime there is…
ATLANTA, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles) - While health authorities in Southeast Asia are alarmed at the increasing number of cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), officials of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are worried about a possible epidemic of  a mysterious oral bacterial infection among Americans. In just the last 24 hours, the…