Codes, Not Bros: Google Pledges $50 Million to Ladies in Tech
Google acknowledged during its 2014 I/O conference keynote speech that the gap between women and men in technology has expanded, even within its organization, where women are just 30% of the workforce....
View ArticleLatest Victim of SF Real Estate Speculators Is a 98-Year-Old Woman
This week, a 98-year-old San Franciscan named Mary Phillips told local news station KRON she was being evicted from her apartment, despite having never missed a rent payment.As I reported earlier this...
View ArticleMyanmar Journalists Sentenced to Hard Labor for Stories on Chemical Weapons
Five journalists have been sentenced to ten years hard labor in Myanmar for publishing stories about a weapons factory, with claims their reporting violated national security. The stories, published in...
View ArticleIsraeli Strikes Kill More Palestinians as Rocket Causes Fuel Tanker Blaze
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed four more Palestinians before dawn on Friday, raising the death toll from the four day offensive to at least 85, while a Palestinian rocket...
View ArticleYou Won't Need a Visa to Go to 2018 World Cup, Says Putin
Russia will not require visitors to hold visas when the country hosts the soccer World Cup in four year’s time, according to president Vladimir Putin.Athletes, staff and fans alike will be granted...
View ArticleAmazon Defies French Free Delivery Ban with One Centime Postage
Online retailer Amazon has defied new French legislation that bans the free delivery of books by offering postage for a single centime (1.4 cents).The legislation, which came into force this week, is...
View ArticleRebel Rocket Attack May Have Killed 30 Ukrainian Troops
(Reuters) - A rocket attack by pro-Russian rebels on a border post on Ukraine's border with Russia on Friday may have killed as many as 30 soldiers and border guards, an Interior Ministry adviser said,...
View ArticleMandela’s Party Compares Israeli Strikes to Holocaust
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has issued an official statement condemning Israel’s “barbaric” attacks on the Gaza strip, drawing comparisons with the “atrocities of...
View ArticleC.I.A. Station Chief Will Soon Be Leaving Berlin, Officials Say
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's decision to ask the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country was an inevitable response to fresh allegations of U.S. spying on Berlin, German Foreign Minister...
View ArticleU.N. Human Rights Chief Says Israel Might Be Violating International Law
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief on Friday voiced serious doubts that Israeli's military operation against Gaza complied with international law banning the targeting of...
View ArticleAmerican Quakers are Running an 'Underground Railroad' to Help LGBT Ugandans...
A group of American Quakers are operating what they call a “new underground railroad” to help a few LGBT Ugandans flee their country, where a recent law imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality.The...
View ArticleI Want to Believe: 'True Detective' Creator Nic Pizzolatto Reveals a Few...
In an interview with The Daily Beast yesterday, creator and sole screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto mentioned a few crucial details about the True Detective’s hotly anticipated second season. True Detective...
View ArticleGhanaian World Cup Fans Seek Asylum in Brazil, Claiming Religious Conflict
Two hundred Ghanaian World Cup fans are seeking asylum in Brazil after telling police that violence among the country’s Muslim groups makes it unsafe for them to go back. But officials in Ghana,...
View ArticleLeBron James Will Return to Cleveland Cavaliers
In a statement published on SI.com, LeBron James has announced that he will return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, for whom he played from 2003 to 2010. James left Cleveland in 2010 to play for the Miami...
View ArticleWe Smoked Salvia in the Himalayas With the Brits Behind @Vice_Is_Hip
Imagine a social theory class composed entirely of popular conceptual Twitter accounts. The dude behind @Horse_eBooks lounges pompously near the professor, hawking his evening art exhibition and the...
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Newsweek Rewind: When Skylab Crashed Into Australia
Skylab, America’s first space station, had a dramatic birth and death. Damaged on its trip into space in 1973, it required an innovative repair—an expandable heat shield deployed through an...
View ArticleThe LeBron Returning to Cleveland Is Older and Wiser
“And the ESPY for ‘Best Scoop’ goes to Lee Jenkins of Sports Illustrated…”We are as likely to witness this moment next week as we a pyro-technic show at Quicken Loans Arena later this month welcoming...
View ArticleChina's Warning to Journalists: Don't Work With Foreign Media
In another blow to press freedom in a country with notoriously restrictive laws, the Chinese government has issued a warning to journalists not to work with any foreign news organizations. The New York...
View ArticleEx-J.P. Morgan Trader Joins Bitcoin Bulls Launching Hedge Funds
Daniel Masters, a 50-year-old veteran commodities trader, started working for some of the largest companies in the world right out of university, trading in London, New York and Zug, Switzerland, for...
View ArticleDid Marxist Philosophy Superstar Slavoj Žižek Plagiarize a White Nationalist...
Slavoj Žižek, one of the most widely known Marxist philosophers of the 21st century, has been accused of plagiarism by The American Renaissance, a conservative magazine focusing on “race and racial...
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