ISIL in Iraq Crucifies Eight Rebels, Displays Their Bodies
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Eight rebel fighters have been crucified in Syria by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) because they were considered too moderate, a monitoring group said on Sunday.The...
View ArticleJobs and Car Sales Expected to Show U.S. Economy Rebounding
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States can firmly consign its weather-beaten start to the year to history this week with June vehicle sales and jobs data expected to show a strong end to the second...
View ArticlePolice Use Pepper Spray to Break Up World Cup Fan Fight
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police used pepper spray to break up fights between Brazilian and Uruguayan fans during a World Cup match at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium on Saturday, a spokesman for...
View ArticleObama to Ask Congress for $2 B to Deal With Flood of Immigrant Children on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is to ask Congress for more than $2 billion to deal with the surge in unaccompanied children from Central America flooding into the United States...
View ArticleThe Solo Efforts of the Walkmen, Once the Finest Rock Band in New York
For a fleeting but significant moment—say, from 2004’s Bows + Arrows through 2008’s You & Me—the Walkmen were New York’s finest rock band.Finest because the word conveys an odd sort of classiness...
View ArticleMorbid Anatomy Museum Opens in Brooklyn
The fetuses are suspended in yellow liquid. In their eternally curled sleep, they are the color and shape of uncooked shrimp. Alongside them in the display case are magenta and cobalt jellyfish, as...
View ArticleIsrael Finds Bodies of Three Missing Teens in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces found the bodies of three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Monday after a nearly three-week-long search and a sweep against the Islamist Hamas group...
View ArticleU.S. Government to Unveil Near $9 Billion Fine for France's BNP: Sources
PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce on Monday a settlement with BNP Paribas BNPP.PA involving a record fine of nearly $9 billion over alleged U.S. sanctions...
View ArticleQuora Question: Should the U.S. World Cup Team Learn to Dive?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleBlackwater Employee Threatened to Kill State Department Investigator: Report
Newly disclosed documents show that a senior Blackwater employee stymied an investigation into the security contractor’s operations in Iraq by threatening to kill a State Department investigator, The...
View ArticleDemocrats Ready to Pounce on Supreme Court Contraception Decision
Republicans who opposed the Affordable Care Act and its contraception mandate have won a big victory at the Supreme Court. But they may have hurt their own political future in the process.The Supreme...
View ArticleVillage Voice Staffers Walk Out for Better Pay and Better Coffee
Employees of The Village Voice, New York's ailing 60-year-old alt-weekly, staged a walk-out Monday afternoon in pursuit of better pay, better working conditions, and—yes—better coffee. In a press...
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NASA's New Satellite Will Watch the Earth 'Breathe' CO2
At 5:56 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA will launch its first satellite dedicated exclusively to measuring carbon dioxide all around the globe.NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryThe data from the Orbiting Carbon...
View ArticleObama Chastises Congress for Failure on Immigration Reform, Vows to Go It Alone
Vowing to act alone amid deadlock on immigration reform, President Obama pinned the blame for the growing humanitarian crisis along the country’s southern border squarely on Congressional Republicans....
View ArticleIf You’re HIV-Positive, You’re Less Likely to Get Cancer Treatment
Scientists have long recognized that cancer patients with HIV infections have lower survival rates than cancer patients without the virus. A Journal of Clinical Oncology paper published online today...
View ArticleBNP Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Forfeit $8.8 Billion in Sanctions Case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BNP Paribas on Monday pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and agreed to forfeit $8.83 billion, as part of a broad investigation into allegations the French bank violated U.S....
View ArticleSupreme Court Won't Touch California's Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case challenging California’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, a practice which claims to be able to change one’s sexual orientation from...
View ArticleLuis Suarez Approximates an Apology for Biting Giorgio Chiellini
It only took six days for Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez to go from tooth to truth. Or did he?“Independent from the fallout and the contradicting declarations that have surfaced during these past days,...
View ArticleSCOTUSBlog Is Not SCOTUS
The Supreme Court of the United States, or SCOTUS for short, is nine Justices who decide the great legal questions of our day. SCOTUSBlog is an unaccredited blog that provides news and analysis about...
View ArticleNSA Targeted the Phone Records of 248 Americans in 2013
In 2013, the National Security Agency’s controversial telephone metadata program—which collects the call records of every U.S. citizen—was used to spy on only 248 Americans, said a transparency report...
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