15-Year-Old Shooting Survivor Lost her Family, Finds Solace in Harry Potter
Cassidy Stay, 15, became the Girl Who Lived on Wednesday, when her ex-uncle broke into her Texas home and murdered both of her parents and all four of her younger siblings. This weekend she spoke at a...
View ArticleTommy Ramone Helped Make the Ramones the Punk Beatles
“1, 2, 3, 4!”Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and now Tommy. They’re all gone. Tommy Ramone, né Thomas Erdelyi, the original drummer for—and the last surviving member of—the most influential band in the history...
View ArticleRand Paul Zaps Rick Perry on Immigration and Iraq
The presidential election of 2016 is still two years away, but already the claws are coming out in the race to become the Republican candidate.In an op-ed titled “Rick Perry Is Dead Wrong,” Sen. Rand...
View ArticleGenetically Speaking, Friends Resemble Friends
When we make friends, it can help to have something in common. Researchers and anyone who has ever struck up conversation with a stranger knows this. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the...
View ArticleDick Cheney: I Have No Regrets About the Iraq War
Recently, Ezra Klein wrote about the Iraq War,The totality of the Bush administration's failure in Iraq is stunning. It is not simply that they failed to build the liberal democracy they wanted. It's...
View ArticleMan Claims Part of Africa to Make Daughter a Princess, Fight the NSA
When news broke last week that some dude from Virginia said he’d traveled to Africa and planted a flag on a piece of unclaimed land so he could declare himself king and his daughter a princess, not...
View ArticleCitigroup: How to Turn a 96 Percent Hit to Earnings Into, Uh, ‘Strong’ Results
When prices swoon on Wall Street, traders have a clever saying: “The market’s up a little lower.”You could say the same for Citigroup Inc.’s earnings Monday.While widely hailed as a “strong” and...
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Phil Chalmers Says He's America’s Leading Juvenile Homicide Expert
Bang.A youth lies on the ground between desks and bloody textbooks. A brunette in an argyle sweater is sprawled nearby on the linoleum floor, with a red hole in her abdomen. We are just 10 miles from...
View ArticleSouth African Athlete Pistorius in Night Club Altercation
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was involved in an argument at a night club over the weekend, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, days after his...
View ArticleTwelve Killed, 120 Hurt in Moscow Subway Accident
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed on Tuesday and up to 120 injured when a Moscow underground train derailed between two stations during the morning rush hour, the Emergencies Ministry...
View ArticlePalestinian Rocket Fire Persists After Israel Agrees to Gaza Truce
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israel on Tuesday after it agreed to an Egyptian proposal to end the week-old Gaza conflict, and a Hamas leader said the Islamist group...
View ArticleRussia Demands United States Releases Accused Hacker Roman Seleznev Immediately
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had issued an official protest to the United States demanding immediate release of a Russian citizen detained last week on hacking...
View ArticleMassive Car Bomb Attack Kills at Least 89 in Afghanistan
GARDEZ (Reuters) - A car packed with explosives exploded on Tuesday as it sped through a crowded market in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktika, killing at least 89 people, officials said, one of...
View ArticleIsrael Resumes Strikes on Gaza After Hamas Rejects Cease-fire
A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has failed a mere six hours after Hamas rejected the terms as a “surrender,” and continued to fire rockets. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted...
View ArticleSecret Tapes in Polish ‘Waitergate’ Scandal Could Cost Warsaw’s Government a...
It has all the makings of a Cold War spy thriller. Shady deals over caviar and vodka in an East European restaurant, a waiters’ plot, a foreign minister dismissing the country’s alliance with one of...
View ArticleRocket Attack? There's an App for That
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis have found a new way to learn of imminent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip in the form of a mobile phone app.Hamas militants have fired more than 1,000 rockets from...
View ArticleUkraine Suggests Russia May Have Had a Role in Deadly Air Strike
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine made fresh charges of Russian involvement in its conflict with separatist rebels, suggesting Moscow may have had a role in an air strike on Tuesday that killed at least four...
View ArticleJose Antonio Vargas, Journalist and Prominent Undocumented Immigrant,...
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and undocumented immigrant, was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas, on Tuesday after trying to board a plane to Los Angeles,...
View ArticleAt Least 20 Dead in Moscow Subway Accident
MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed and more than 120 were injured when a Moscow underground train derailed during the morning rush hour in one of the worst accidents on the Russian...
View ArticleC.I.A. Station Chief in Berlin Will Leave by Week's End, Newspaper Reports
BERLIN (Reuters) - The CIA station chief in Berlin ordered out by Germany over fresh allegations of U.S. spying will leave the country by the end of the week, a German newspaper reported on...
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