Will Undocumented Elmos in Times Square Face Immigration Status Checks?
As more and more out-of-towners flood Times Square every year, New York City legislators are looking to draft legislation that would protect tourists from anti-Semitic Elmos, handsy Woodys and...
View ArticleWhere American Teens were Abused in the Name of God
In January 1990, Deirdre Sugiuchi was 15 and on a plane to the Dominican Republic. She was fed up with her dysfunctional home life in the Mississippi Delta and had persuaded her fundamentalist...
View ArticleVideo Shows Gaza Residents Acting as Human Shields
Warning tactics used by the Israel Defense Forces to apparently avoid civilian casualties in Gaza have been captured on camera. In a video published on LiveLeak, an IDF aircraft fires a loud, nonlethal...
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Parental Alienation Syndrome Isn’t in the DSM Yet, but It’s in Plenty of...
Following the 2010in vitro-assisted birth of Gus, Danielle Schreiber claimed that because the name of her former partner, Jason Patric, wasn’t listed on their son’s birth certificate he didn’t have any...
View ArticleTime to Start Worrying About Ground Drones
They are the future of war—and no army will be complete without them. Israel recently became the latest country to deploy unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The Israeli Defense Forces’ “Loyal Partner” is...
View ArticleAlan Furst, the Anti-Fascist Novelist
On a Wednesday night in June, best-selling spy novelist Alan Furst was reading from his latest, Midnight in Europe, at Kepler’s Books, an independent bookstore with a counterculture pedigree in Menlo...
View ArticleHow to Make the World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Pacemakers are big: They’re about the length of your pinky finger and weigh an ounce, with batteries taking up most of that real estate. And size matters: Large cardiac implants can lead to infections,...
View ArticleThe Great Recession Has Halved the Typical American Family’s Wealth
The typical American family hasn’t just taken a hit from the Great Recession. It has taken a beating.According to new research from the Russell Sage Foundation, the typical American household saw its...
View ArticleMan Kills Six Family Members, Was Heading to Grandparents’ Home When Police...
Four children and two adults were fatally shot Wednesday outside of Houston. The accused shooter, Ron Lee Haskell, 33, surrendered hours later after a car chase and an hourslong standoff with police in...
View ArticleDeaths From Cancer and Heart Disease Surge in Developing Countries, But...
Noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes killed 38 million people last year, most of them in developing countries, but the majority of donor dollars for poorer countries are...
View ArticleReport Finds 40 Percent of Colleges Have Not Investigated an Alleged Rape in...
Roughly 40 percent of colleges and universities have not investigated an alleged on-campus rape in the past five years, according to a survey conducted by Missouri senator (and former prosecutor)...
View ArticleQuora Question: Why Is There So Much Outrage Over Facebook Manipulating...
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 ArticleOops! Did Ads Opposing Obamacare Increase Enrollment?
Opponents of both the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Democrats who made it happen have spent mountains of money trying to turn Americans against the law. But in the process, one study shows,...
View ArticleMan Fired After Buying Legal Weed in Washington Will Get His Job Back
Mike Boyer wanted to be the first person to buy legal weed in Washington state. He took off work on Tuesday, July 8. On Monday night, he arrived outside Spokane Green Leaf at around 7 p.m., the Daily...
View ArticleBaby Thought Cured of HIV Still Has the Virus
(Reuters) - A child thought to have been cured of HIV now has detectable levels of the virus, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.The child, known as the "Mississippi baby," was the subject of a...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Talks Sides Far Apart, Paper Quotes UK's Hague
VIENNA (Reuters) - Significant differences remain between six world powers and Iran in negotiations over its nuclear program, an Austrian newspaper quoted British Foreign Minister William Hague as...
View Article'Game of Thrones' Slays 'The Walking Dead' in 2014 Emmy Nominations
For the Primetime Emmy Awards show, now in its 66th year, what defines television in 2014 doesn’t matter as long as the program tugs at hearts and turns heads. “What is truly telling from this year’s...
View ArticleNigeria Suspended From International Football Over Government Interference
Nigeria has been suspended by FIFA from all international soccer because of the government's meddling in the country's game. The governing organization says it sent a letter of concern to the Nigerian...
View ArticleIsraelis Hint at Gaza Invasion
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - At least 78 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday as militants in the enclave kept up...
View ArticleFTC Files a Complaint Against Amazon for Deceptive Billing
The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it has filed a complaint against Amazon for allowing children to rack up in-app charges without properly informing parents.In a press teleconference...
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