What We’ve Learned About Dzhokhar Tsarnaev From the Trial of his Friend,...
Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was convicted Monday of obstructing an investigation into the attack that killed three and wounded hundreds more in...
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Putin’s Ukraine Mistakes Have Made Him a Pariah
Call it Putin’s Lockerbie moment—the week the world’s attitudes toward Russia’s leader tipped from wary distrust into frank hostility. It has been a precipitous descent. Just a few months ago Putin’s...
View ArticleU.S. Blinks on Pinning Ukraine Missile on Russia
Washington and Moscow went eyeball to eyeball Tuesday on who was responsible for downing the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine on July 17 and Washington blinked. “We don't know a name, we don't know a rank...
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A Family's Lost Love Letters, a Stranger, and a History Revealed
The story of my mother’s family is built on dark secrets and tragic losses—suicide, sudden death and fatherless children—yet there was always a treasured relic that transcended the pain: the many love...
View Article‘We Shot Down MH17,’ Says Pro-Russian Soldier
A pro-Russian militant has admitted his unit shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Italian Newspaper Corriere della Sera has reported. The interview confirms pro-Russian forces mistook the passenger...
View ArticlePhotos: Sally Rudolph and Charles Brand, a Love Affair in Letters
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Behind the Scenes in Putin's Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator
The President wakes late and eats shortly after noon. He begins with the simplest of breakfasts. There is always cottage cheese. His cooked portion is always substantial; omelette or occasionally...
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Israel Continues to Pummel Gaza as Flights Halted
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces pounded Gaza on Wednesday, meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists and sending thousands of residents fleeing, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said...
View ArticlePro-Russian Separatists Shoot Down Two Fighter Jets, Says Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets on Wednesday, not far from where a Malaysian airliner was brought down last week in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers...
View ArticleAstronomers Search for the Key to a Galactic Internet
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields. Like a giant car antenna, it...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Coffee Shops Aren't Afraid of the Big Bad Starbucks
On Monday, Williamsburg’s very first Starbucks opened to an apparently chilly reception in the hyper-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood. The only surprise, perhaps, is how long it took to arrive and how...
View ArticleDavid Perdue Painted as Another Mitt Romney
Two years ago, Republican Mitt Romney, a former private equity businessman, tried to run for president as a job creator but instead got slammed for gutting companies and outsourcing jobs.Now,...
View ArticleTransAsia Airways Plane Crashes in Typhoon-Hit Taiwan, Killing 47
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A TransAsia Airways turboprop plane crashed on its second attempt at landing during a thunderstorm on an island off Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people and setting buildings on...
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Hunting Humans: The Americans Taking Immigration Into Their Own Hands
Michael Vickers’s ranch 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Brooks County, Texas, is near a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. Undocumented migrants trek through harsh brushland onto his property...
View ArticleRemains from Flight MH17 Arrive in Netherlands
EINDHOVEN THE NETHERLANDS (Reuters) - Two aircraft carrying the remains of some of the 298 passengers who died on flight MH17 touched down at an airport in the Dutch city of Eindhoven on Wednesday, as...
View ArticleUkrainian Separatists Shoot Down Two Fighter Jets, Ukraine Says
Two Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down by pro-Russia rebels today, a Ukrainian military spokesman told Reuters. The planes came down near Savur Mogila, a burial mound in Ukraine’s Shakhtars’k...
View ArticleSlap on the Wrist for Montana Judge Who Gave 30 Day Sentence for Rape of a Child
The Montana Supreme Court publicly reprimanded district judge G. Todd Baugh on Tuesday for his lenient sentence of an admitted child rapist. The Court said that Baugh, who in 2007 sentenced a teacher...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg Jets to Israel to Prove It's Safe
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg does not care very much at all for the FAA’s ban on U.S. flights flying to or from Tel-Aviv. Not very much at all.That’s why the billionaire took to Twitter...
View ArticleAssociated Press Bungles Malaysia Airlines Crash Alert, Sends Newsrooms Into...
For a brief moment on Wednesday morning, Twitter users nearly had a collective blip of a heart attack when the AP tweeted that one of the Dutch planes carrying bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines...
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Hunting Humans: The Americans Taking Immigration Into Their Own Hands
Michael Vickers’s ranch 113 kilometres north of the US–Mexico border in Brooks County, Texas, is near a Border Patrol checkpoint. Undocumented migrants trek through the harsh brushland onto his...
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