Are The Real Wolves Of Wall Street Dead?
Jordan Belfort has reinvented himself as a motivational speaker, and rogue financier Florian Homm has assured fellow Germans he is now a philanthropist focused on helping Liberian children. But both...
View ArticleMagnitude 6.3 Earthquake Kills 398 in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - The death toll from a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit southwestern China on Sunday climbed to 398 people, state media reported on Monday.China said it had dispatched thousands of...
View ArticleThe Perfect Amusement Park: Thrills, Chills, Spills and the Occasional Death
The Vernon, New Jersey park that recently re-opened has far from an unblemished safety record, which is why when Newsweek reporter Victoria Bekiempis ventured there earlier this summer, she did so with...
View ArticleIslamic State Insurgents Getting Dangerously Close to Baghdad
(Reuters) - Using secret tunnels built by Saddam Hussein and rough terrain to outfox Iraqi troops, Islamic State insurgents are getting dangerously close to Baghdad with the support of heavily-armed...
View ArticleMan Driving Excavator Kills Pedestrian in What Israeli Police Call 'Terror...
One person was killed and five were injured when a man driving an excavator ran down a pedestrian and rammed a bus in Jerusalem on Monday, police said. The driver was shot and killed by police, Israeli...
View ArticleTwo Young Spanish Women, Believed to Be Headed for Jihad, Arrested in North...
MADRID (Reuters) - Two young Spanish women, one of them under 18, have been arrested in the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla on suspicion of trying to join an Islamic State militant cell in the...
View ArticleISIS Terrorists 'Have Seized Iraq's Largest Dam'
Islamic State (IS) fighters have captured a strategically key hydroelectric dam as the Islamist terrorist group expands its offensive and takes its first steps into confronting the Kurdish forces in...
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The U.S. Is Sitting on Promising Ebola Vaccines
Ebola was once thought to be a intermittent scourge limited to the bush of Central Africa. The virus would jump from its animal hosts to a nearby community eating those animals, but these outbreaks...
View ArticleAre Hamptons Police Really Searching for an Egg Salad Recipe?
Police in the Hamptons are supposedly on high alert because of a stolen egg salad recipe worth $4,000. That's according to a small handful of credible and less-than-credible news outlets drawing...
View ArticleSeven-Hour Gaza Truce Ends, Israel Vows to Continue Until 'Quiet' Restored
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A brief Israeli truce to allow aid to reach Palestinians ended on Monday amid accusations of strikes by both sides, while Jerusalem was rocked by two attacks that appeared to...
View ArticleMcDonald's Says Sales are Hurting After Chinese Meat Handling Scandal
(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp's sales in markets, including China and Japan, are experiencing a "significant negative impact" since a food safety scandal in China a fortnight ago forced it to halt the...
View ArticleIsrael Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document
Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat against the U.S. government, including its intelligence services, in a newly published National Security Agency (NSA) document obtained by...
View ArticleU.K. Looking Into Reports of British Person Killed in Gaza
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is "urgently" investigating reports that a British national was killed in Gaza over the weekend, a spokesman for the British government said on Monday.Britain sought to...
View ArticleTexas May Have Executed an Innocent Man
Texas executes more inmates than any other state. In 2004, the state put 23 people to death. Records obtained by The Marshall Project suggest one of them may well have been innocent. Cameron Todd...
View ArticleJames Brady, Reagan’s Press Spokesman Shot by Would-Be Assassin, Dies
James Brady, President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, who caught a bullet when an assassination attempt was made on his boss in 1981, has died. Aged 41 when he was shot by James Hinckley, who said he...
View ArticleAs Both Sides in Gaza Agree Ceasefire, Israelis Are Left Wondering What Was...
A 72 hours ceasefire has been accepted by both sides starting tomorrow at 8 am. Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire during the day, but Hamas did not accept it and continued to fire. By morning the...
View ArticleCalifornia Declares Wildfire Emergency
A state of emergency has been declared in California as more than a dozen wildfires blaze across the northern part of the state. Fires have been cutting a devastating swathe throughout the region,...
View ArticleRussia Says 311 Ukrainian Soldiers are Seeking Asylum in Russia
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday it was in talks with Moscow over the return of 311 Ukrainian soldiers and border guards who had been forced by fighting with separatists to cross into Russia....
View ArticleFeverish Man Being Tested for Ebola in New York City
And you thought bed bugs were bad! A man is being tested for ebola at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a hospital spokesperson told CBS News.The man arrived at the emergency room early Monday...
View ArticleIsrael, Gaza Agree to New 72-Hour Truce
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinian factions, including Gaza's ruling Islamist Hamas movement, have accepted an Egyptian proposal to cease fire from 0500 GMT (1.00 a.m. EDT) on Aug. 5 for at...
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