Dow Tops 17,000, S&P at Record on Jobs Data
(Reuters) - Wall Street's holiday-shortened session ended with multiple records on Thursday, with the Dow topping 17,000 for the first time after the June jobs report came in much stronger than...
View ArticleReview Board Says PRISM Is 'Valuable and Effective'
An independent government review board has ruled that the NSA’s controversial interpretation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to justify surveilling the content of Americans’ communications...
View ArticleWhat U.S. Soccer Fans Can Still Take From This World Cup
I believe that we will… wince when we gaze back at the missed opportunity in the 93rd minute versus Belgium. The United States was never going to win this tournament, but one more day of mass hysteria,...
View ArticleSyrian Hackers Take Over IDF’s Twitter, Claim Nuclear Leak in Israel
The Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hacktivists professing loyalty to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, claims it hacked into a Twitter account belonging to the Israel Defense Forces today....
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For All the Controversy, This Running of the Bulls Won't Be Pamplona's Last
The most dangerous party on Earth begins this weekend and will keep going for seven days.At 8am each morning, a herd of six Spanish fighting bulls will stampede through half a mile of streets from the...
View ArticleDevelopments in Quantum Physics Are About to Transform Our Daily Lives
Charge Pomeranchuk orders. Skyrmion lattices. Magnetic monopoles in spin ice materials.That may sound like a sci-fi shopping list, but according to Malte Grosche, head of the Quantum Matter Group at...
View ArticleU.K. Prime Minister's Former Advisor Coulson Jailed Over Phone Hacking at...
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson was jailed for 18 months on Friday for being complicit in industrial scale phone-hacking by journalists at the...
View ArticleIraqi Army Retakes Saddam Hussein's Home Village in Push Against ISIS
By Isra al-Rubei'i and Maggie FickBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a campaign to retake...
View ArticleReport: Powerful New Herbicide May Be Sprayed in Close Range of Thousands of...
American agriculture is in a losing battle with a villain of its own design: chemical-resistant superweeds. The newly evolved weeds are popping up in millions of acres of fields sprayed with Glyphosate...
View ArticleHurricane Arthur Whips Through North Carolina's Outer Banks
NAGS HEAD N.C. (Reuters) - Hurricane Arthur hit the North Carolina coast early on Friday and then weakened as it moved out to sea, causing no deaths or injuries but spoiling the Independence Day...
View ArticleFewer Americans Think America Is the Greatest Country Than Ever Before
A new survey by the Pew Research Center released on June 26 shows that Americans think the U.S. “stands above all other countries” less and less. In 2011, 38 percent of Americans thought the U.S.A. was...
View ArticleOn July Fourth Holiday, Obama Urges Immigration Overhaul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Americans on the Independence Day holiday on Friday that welcoming immigrants to the United States is "central to our way of life" as he made an...
View ArticleWinds From Hurricane Arthur Wallop Massachusetts' Nantucket Island
BOSTON (Reuters) - A weakened but fast-moving Hurricane Arthur swept along southern New England on Friday night, wielding tropical storm-force winds, after an earlier landfall in North Carolina that...
View ArticleMexico Finds Radioactive Load From Stolen Truck
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Friday found a load of dangerous radioactive material that was in a stolen pick-up, a top civil protection official said.The load of iridium 192 was found...
View ArticleGermany Arrests Suspected Double Agent Spying for U.S.: Lawmakers
BERLIN (Reuters) - An employee of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, two lawmakers with knowledge of the affair told Reuters on...
View ArticleRebels Seen Fleeing Eastern Town as Kiev Savours Military Victory
NEAR SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels were pulling out of a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday as authorities in Kiev savoured a major military success in its three-month...
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Brazil's Star Neymar Out of World Cup After Broken Vertebra
FORTALEZA Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil forward Neymar has been ruled out of the World Cup after fracturing a vertebra in his back in the closing stages of the 2-1 quarter-final win over Colombia on Friday...
View ArticleKidnapped Palestinian Teen Was Burned Alive, Official Says
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Initial autopsy findings from the body of an East Jerusalem youth who Palestinians believe was kidnapped and killed by far-right Jews showed that he was burned alive, the...
View ArticleJapanese Knotweed: The Invasive Plant That Eats the Value of Your Home
When the German botanist Philipp von Siebold sent a variety of plant specimens to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in August 1850, he had no idea what he was unleashing on the world.Among the various...
View ArticleParis Nightclub Owners Are Pouting About the Morality Police
Dropping by Le Queen, the cavernous nightclub on the Champs-Elysées, it would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the crowd of gyrating dancers who pays attention to the news that the Paris police have...
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