Fed Mulls End of Asset Purchases in October, Minutes Show
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has begun detailing how it plans to ease the U.S. economy out of an era of loose monetary policy, indicating it will end its asset purchases in October and...
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Where Does Brazil's Loss to Germany Rank Amongst All-Time Shocking Defeats?
Football has never witnessed a defeat comparable to the devastation that host nation Brazil suffered at the feet of Germany on Tuesday afternoon in the World Cup semi-finals. Certainly, nations have...
View ArticleDoes the Hobby Lobby Decision Threaten Gay Rights?
In 2010, then-candidate Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, told the editorial board of the Louisville Courier-Journal that he disagreed with the...
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Writer of Guide to Pamplona Among Gored at Bull Running
This morning’s Running of the Bulls, the third of the annual eight-day San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, resulted in the highest reported hazard level of the 2014 celebration thus far: a 70 out...
View ArticleDoctors Have Ethical Duty to Protect Athletes from Concussions: Paper
Every year, there are up to 4 million sports-related concussions in America. The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) released a new position paper today outlining doctors’ ethical duties in protecting...
View ArticleRideshare Company Lyft Launches in NYC; City Questions Its Legality
The ride-share service Lyft announced this week it will launch in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. According to the company, its safety requirements and screening processes are “more...
View ArticleWhy Cops Get Away With Rape
Truthout revealed last week that there is no organization keeping good data on sexual violence perpetrated by police. Universities are being pressured by students, alumni and human rights groups for...
View ArticleBritain Moves to Pass Emergency Phone and Email Monitoring Law
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecoms companies to retain the data of users for a year, saying the move was vital to protect national...
View ArticleKerry Faces Uphill Battle to Defuse Afghan Election Standoff After Abdullah...
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive to a skeptical audience in Afghanistan this week to try to resolve a deepening crisis over a disputed presidential election which has...
View ArticleA Relentless Drought Is Forcing Las Vegas to Take Extreme Measures
When a 60-year drought slowed the mighty Colorado back in the 12th century, it didn’t much matter. The river had to feed only local wildlife and not the millions of people who have since settled in...
View ArticleRussia Agrees to Write Off Cuban Debt Ahead of State Visit
Russia has moved to strengthen ties with Cuba as it agreed to relieve 90% of the Communist state’s debt and invest in oil exploration projects off the island’s coast ahead of Russian president Vladimir...
View ArticleMass Individualism Makes Life Tough for Consumer Product Giants
What do you get when you cross the new Amazon Fire Phone with the rise of Etsy and the explosion of WhatsApp?Big trouble for Coca-Cola. And, for that matter, misery for McDonald’s, Ford, Gillette,...
View ArticlePresident Pushes Perry to Unite GOP to Fund Border Crisis Fix
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama rejected demands from Texas Governor Rick Perry and others that he visit the border where a child migrant crisis is unfolding and said his critics should get behind...
View ArticleIs This the MySpace of Fine Art?
A pert blonde in a little black dress walks up to a 6-foot-tall mirrored box. She presses a flat, white switch. A light flashes within the rectangular prism and the one-way glass turns transparent upon...
View ArticleIndustrial Spill Shutters Part of U.S. Capitol
After various reports of an "industrial spill," the House side of the U.S. Capitol building was blocked off on Thursday morning. Aides and lawmakers were instructed to vacate the area until further...
View ArticleGermany to American Spy: Get Out
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany asked the top U.S. intelligence official at the Berlin embassy on Thursday to leave the country, a highly unusual step reflecting the deep anger within Angela Merkel's...
View ArticlePalestinian Officials Say Gaza Death Toll at Least 76
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - At least 76 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants kept up rocket attacks on...
View ArticleWorld Cities to Grow by 2.5 Billion by 2050: UN Report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than half of the world's seven billion people live in urban areas, with the top "mega cities" - with more than 10 million inhabitants - being Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai,...
View ArticleTexas Man Charged With Capital Murder for Shooting and Killing Six
SPRING Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man was charged with capital murder on Thursday in the shooting deaths of six people, including four children, in a domestic dispute in suburban Houston, authorities...
View ArticleGermany Asks Top U.S. Intelligence Official to Leave Country Following Spying...
German authorities have asked a top U.S. intelligence official to leave the country citing a “failure to cooperate on resolving various allegations, starting with the NSA and up to the latest...
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