White House Says Most Children at Border to Be Sent Home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay as the Obama administration...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Updates Muggles on Harry Potter's Adulthood
What's Harry Potter up to these days? Not Daniel Radcliffe—he's doing his thing on Broadway, taking selfies with fans and all that—but Harry himself? It's been seven years since the last novel, 16...
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3-D Printing Enables Visually Impaired Children to Experience the World of...
In the past year, 3-D printing has been experiencing major breakthroughs, and it promises even greater strides in the fields of sustainability, technology and medical research. Yet the technology is...
View Article550 Memphis Cops Call in Sick in 'Blue Flu' Epidemic
There seems to be a bug going around the Memphis Police Department. In what Memphis’s Commercial Appeal is calling “the Blue Flu,” 550 officers have called in sick this week, about 25 percent of the...
View ArticleAmerican Museum of Natural History Will Host Adult Sleepover
Finally, an adult sleepover you won’t wake up regretting.The American Museum of Natural History will host a “new sleepover experience for grown-ups only” on Aug. 1. The 21-and-up sleepover—and it...
View ArticleIraq Tells U.N. 'Terrorist Groups' Seized Former Chemical Weapons Depot
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups" and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins...
View ArticleObama Asks Congress for $3.7 Billion for Immigration Crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. administration took steps on Tuesday to halt a cross-border surge of children from Central America, asking Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending and putting in...
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Tour de France Defending Champ Chris Froome Suffers Stage Four Crash
The Tour de France defending champion’s cycling shorts offered a Froome with a view on Tuesday afternoon—and it wasn’t pretty. Chris Froome, the Kenyan-born Brit who won last summer, suffered abrasions...
View ArticleRoute for Nicaragua's Proposed Canal Approved
There are a lot of doubts about whether a proposed canal in Nicaragua will ever be built, but the route of the waterway that would link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and potentially radicalize the...
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'Coal Rollers' Revel in Clouds of Black Smoke
Maybe it was inevitable. With states like Arizona and Idaho doing their best to nullify the regulatory power of the Environmental Protection Agency, and climate denialism perhaps its most virulent, it...
View ArticleDid Cuban Agents Plant a Daily Caller Story Smearing Democratic Sen. Menendez?
When you think “Daily Caller,” the first thing that springs to mind is probably not “patsy in Communist plot to smear U.S. senator.” But according to The Washington Post, that’s precisely what...
View ArticleThree Books Chart India's Crony Capitalism
In a society ridden with crony capitalism and politics, businessmen and politicians inevitably try to stop people writing books that reveal their goings-on. But there is a limit to how much disruption...
View ArticleAmerican Women Targeted in Malaysian Internet Scams
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Hundreds of American women are being ensnared by Internet scammers based in Malaysia, with some losing over a quarter of a million dollars, as the country becomes an epicenter...
View ArticleTop British Politicians Implicated in Child Sex Crimes
The British government is finally acknowledging that politicians have sexually abused children and that the crimes were covered up. British Home Secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons on...
View ArticleReporting 50 News Cases and 25 Dead, WHO Says Ebola Outbreak Won't Slow Down
The Ebola virus continues to spread at a rapid rate across West Africa with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting today another 50 cases, including 25 deaths, of the disease since July 3. A...
View ArticleIs This the Last Stand for Hamas?
Can Hamas survive the latest onslaught in Gaza? The terrorist organization has clearly learned from past confrontations and is trying to hone its military abilities in the current exchange. But as the...
View ArticlePerry Spurns Obama’s Handshake, But Gets a Meeting on the Border Crisis
Governor Rick Perry, R-Texas, wrote to President Barack Obama yesterday, declining an invitation to greet the president when Air Force One lands in Austin on Wednesday. According to theAustin...
View ArticleNeuroscientists Rally Against Plan to Map Human Brain
If The X-Files taught our society anything, it’s that the age of supercomputers possessing human-like brains is nigh. Perhaps that’s why hundreds of neuroscientists are protesting Europe’s $1.6 billion...
View ArticleEvery Breath You Take: IBM Developing Project to Map and Control Beijing Air...
China’s pollution crisis is receiving some necessary fresh air. On Monday, IBM ‘s China Research laboratory announced a partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government in a project aimed to ease the...
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Germany Embarrasses Brazil in World Cup Semifinal
The headline is too easy: “Brazilians waxed!”This was both unprecedented and astonishing. In the 833rd game in the history of the World Cup, Brazil, the most successful nation in the the tournament’s...
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