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Today in Tabs: Good News / Bad News
So this is kind of a good news / bad news thing. Well it's good news for me, but it may be bad news for you depending on how you feel about Tabs. The news is that I'm taking the summer off, so Tabs...
View ArticleWill the U.K. Have a Manned Border With Scotland?
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - A Scottish vote for independence may result in border checks on the boundary with England under a British Labour government, the opposition leader said on Friday, joining the...
View ArticleActivists Fly Airship over the NSA's Data Center
On Friday, three activist groups flew an airship over the National Security Agency’s secretive data center in the Utah desert. The ship, which bore a sign that read “Illegal Spying Below,” was...
View ArticleCuban Boat People Ordered to Sail Away From Caymans
GRAND CAYMAN Cayman Islands (Reuters) - A group of Cuban migrants who were anchored in an open wooden boat off the Cayman Islands for nearly two weeks obeyed a local government order to sail away on...
View ArticleVenezuela Blackout Hits Much of Country, Seeking Cause: Official
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said authorities were seeking more information on a blackout that has cut electricity in various parts of the country, speaking in a...
View ArticleDefeated Republican Challenges Mississippi Senate Primary Votes
(Reuters) - The Tea Party-backed candidate who has refused to concede defeat to Republican U.S. Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi's primary runoff said his campaign has found more than 1,000...
View ArticleArmed U.S. Aircraft Now Flying Over Iraq: Defense Officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is flying armed aircraft over Iraq, defense officials said on Friday, adding that the flights were aimed at gathering intelligence and ensuring the...
View ArticleAn Embarrassing Hole in Boehner’s Plan to Sue ‘King’ Obama
“Executive monarchy,” “imperial precedents” and “aggressive unilateralism”—these are just a few of the terms being bandied about since House Speaker John Boehner announced two days ago a grand plan to...
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Report: The Sugar Lobby Threatens Organizations, Buries Science on Health...
We know that consuming too much sugar can lead to heart disease, obesity, diabetes and a raft of other maladies. Yet sugar is the most popular food additive in the United States, added with abandon to...
View ArticleThe Golden Gate Bridge Will Finally Get a Suicide Barrier
The Golden Gate Bridge, where more than 1,600 people have jumped to their deaths and suicides have been known to occur as frequently as 10 a month, is finally having changes made to mitigate its...
View ArticleWhat To Look For in the Supreme Court Hobby Lobby Ruling
Are corporations people? Can they hold religious beliefs? If so, can they refuse to offer contraception coverage because of those beliefs? And if that is the case, what other federal laws can...
View ArticleWhy Americans Abroad Are Giving Up Their Citizenship
The number of Americans giving up their citizenship surged to 3,000 in 2013 – three times more than the previous year. And that figure is set to increase further as strict new rules affecting U.S....
View ArticleSarajevo Marks War Centennial with Message of Unity to Divided Country
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Sarajevo marked the centennial on Saturday of a prince's murder that lit the fuse for World War One, offering a message of unity to a divided country and a continent tested by deep...
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Iraqi Parties Pursue Talks That Could Oust Maliki
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi party leaders planned delicate talks that could end Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's divisive rule after a top Shi'ite cleric called for a new premier to be chosen without...
View ArticleNigeria Brothel Explosion Kills 11: Police
KADUNA Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion overnight in a brothel in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi killed 11 people and wounded 28, police said on Saturday, with suspicion likely to fall on the...
View ArticleLibyan Suspect in Benghazi Attack Pleads Not Guilty in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Libyan militia leader pleaded not guilty in federal court on Saturday to a federal terrorism charge in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed...
View ArticleKhamenei: Iraq War a Showdown Between Humanity and Barbarity
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the Iraq conflict a "showdown between humanity and barbarian savagery" and criticized Western media for portraying it as a war...
View ArticleThe $8.5M Race to Protect Planes From Cosmic Rays
It’s an invisible, but looming threat from outer space: distant cosmic events that can cause a computer, or even an aircraft, to crash here on Earth. Concerns have reached the point where a major...
View ArticleIran General Says Ready to Help Iraq Against Militants
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is ready to help Iraq fight an armed revolt using the same methods it deployed against opposition forces in Syria, an Iranian general said, suggesting Tehran is offering to take...
View ArticleMan Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Japan Amending Pacifist Constitution
TOKYO (Reuters) - A man in Japan set himself on fire at a busy intersection in Tokyo on Sunday in an apparent protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plans to ease limits of the country's pacifist...
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