U.S. and China Committed to Managing Differences After Recent Spats
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States need to manage their differences, the leaders of both countries said on Wednesday at the start of annual talks expected to focus on cyber-security,...
View ArticleAustralian PM Says He Won't Bow to "Moral Blackmail" After Asylum Seeker...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday vowed not to bow to "moral blackmail" following reports of suicide bids by female asylum seekers at a detention center on Christmas...
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Boko Haram: Terror’s Insidious New Face
It’s several weeks since the Islamist militants of Boko Haram kidnapped more than 260 girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria and the general wants me to see what he’s up against. He invites me to...
View ArticleWhy Rengan Rajaratnam Got Off on Insider Trading Charges
One thing Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara did not count on: racking up so many insider-trading convictions that one, mid-appeal, would trip him up.[Related: Nonsensical Sentences for White...
View ArticleEdward Snowden Wants to Stay in Russia Longer, His Lawyer Says
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has asked Moscow to extend his asylum in Russia, his lawyer said on Wednesday.Russia granted Snowden a one-year visa in August 2013...
View ArticleChristians Flee Iraq for Safety
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The violence in Iraq is hastening the end of nearly 2,000 years of Christianity there as the few remaining faithful flee Islamic State militants, archbishops from Baghdad, Mosul...
View ArticleWarfare Intensifies Between Israel and Hamas
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel's heartland in intensifying warfare that Palestinian officials said...
View ArticleUnited Nations to Recognize Legal Same-Sex Marriages of Employees
The United Nations is now recognizing the same-sex marriages of its employees by changing the way it categorizes the personal status of its staff. In a major policy shift that was brought into effect...
View ArticleCompany Behind West Virginia Chemical Spill Fined Only $11,000
In January, 10,000 gallons of industrial chemicals leaked out of an old Freedom Industries tank, one mile upriver from a West Virginia treatment plant that supplies water to hundreds of thousands of...
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Japan Rethinks Its Pacifist Constitution, Alarming Its Neighbors
In February 1946, just six months after two atomic bombs leveled the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending World War II in the Pacific, the General Headquarters of the Allied forces in Tokyo—at the...
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Warren G. Harding Was a Much Better Erotic Letter-Writer Than President
On a 2011 trip to the Warren G. Harding Home in Marion, OH, halfway through a summer-long research venture on presidential historic sites, I learned more than anyone needs to know about our 29th...
View ArticleAnger Mounts as Germany Unearths Second U.S. Spy Suspect
BERLIN (Reuters) - German politicians reacted angrily on Wednesday to news of a suspected U.S. spy in the defence ministry, which came days after the arrest of a German foreign intelligence agency...
View ArticleRussia, China, India Ready to Launch Rival to World Bank
The long-awaited BRICS development bank is expected to finally be launched next week, Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov confirmed today.The joint project will see the emerging economic powers of...
View ArticleFive Takeaways from Glenn Greenwald's and Murtaza Hussain's Reddit AMA
Early this morning, The Intercept published a story showing that the NSA and FBI have targeted American citizens for surveillance not because “there is probable cause to believe that [they] are not...
View ArticleTokin’ in Brooklyn: D.A.’s Office Won’t Prosecute Minor Marijuana Offenses
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced yesterday that it will no longer prosecute individuals charged with small-scale marijuana offenses. Possession may still result in arrest, but the new...
View ArticleNorth Korea Complains to U.N. About Film Starring Rogen, Franco
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has complained to the United Nations about a film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, accusing the United States of sponsoring terrorism and committing an act...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Civilian Casualties Surge From Increased Ground Combat
There's been a sharp rise in the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan this year and civilians are more likely to die from ground combat than from improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a United...
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Pro-Russian Georgians Dress in Drag to Try to Defeat the West
The Georgian town of Gori is best known as the birthplace of Joseph Stalin. But in the days running up to May 17, this drab ex-Soviet backwater achieved a different kind of notoriety, and a splash of...
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America’s Love-Hate Relationship With Soccer
The USA showed plenty of passion on the pitch during the World Cup—and there was plenty off it, too. At times, it threatened to turn nasty as the success of the team divided Americans over the merits...
View ArticleUtah to Appeal Gay Marriage Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah will appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court over last month's ruling by a regional appeals court that found in favor of gay marriage in the conservative state, the...
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