Biosafety Experts Oversee Elaborate Ebola Precautions at Emory University
COLUMBIA Mo. (Reuters) - A U.S. hospital caring for two Americans carrying the deadly Ebola virus has tapped biosafety experts to ensure doctors, nurses and other staff do everything needed to prevent...
View ArticleU.S. to Sell Tunisia 12 Black Hawk Attack Helicopters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is planning to sell Tunisia a dozen advanced attack helicopters as Washington seeks to help the North African state stamp out a mounting threat from Islamist...
View ArticleIsraelis Have Been Living in a Parallel Universe
As of 8 am this morning, this summer’s war between Israel and Hamas hopefully came to an end. A 72-hour ceasefire went into effect. In the minutes before the ceasefire, Hamas fired a barrage of...
View ArticleUkrainian Refugees Flood Into Russia As Rebels Are Squeezed
Ukrainians caught up in the government forces assault upon the secessionist rebels are fleeing in huge numbers. More than 117,000 Ukrainians have left their homes and are now on the move inside the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Government Has Another Leaker After Snowden
A new leaker has apparently stepped in to fill Edward Snowden’s shoes. Reporters Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux of The Intercept today dropped a bombshell of a report revealing that, among other...
View ArticleSyrian Violence Hits Lebanon As Saudi Arabian King Offers $1 Billion To Army
The Lebanese army and Islamist militants clashed on Wednesday despite a 24-hour ceasefire agreed to end five days of fighting that has killed dozens of people in the most serious spillover of Syria's...
View ArticleChina Bans Beards, Veils from Xinjiang City's Buses in Security Bid
A city in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has banned people with head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses, as the government battles unrest with a policy that critics said...
View ArticleOn Second Day Of Gaza Ceasefire, Peace Talks Begin
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) - A Gaza truce was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Hamas...
View ArticlePolish PM Says Threat Of Russia's Intervention In Ukraine Is Rising
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday the threat of a direct intervention by Russia's military in Ukraine has risen over the last couple of days."We have reasons to suspect - we have been...
View ArticleWhy the Ebola Vaccine Won't Be Administered in Africa
The earliest the world can expect a vaccine to curb spreading of Ebola in West Africa is about a year away, scientists say. And, even if the vaccine passes the initial phase of testing in the U.S., it...
View ArticleThe Alzheimer's Cure That Worked on Mice
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine announced the discovery of a drug compound that reverses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in mice.The study published Tuesday in the open access journal PLOS...
View ArticleThanks For Nothing: Obamacare Website Bunglers Fired
Call it the Revenge of Obamacare. Vermont, a bellwether for healthcare reform, has fired the main technology contractor behind its bungled health insurance website, dealing the latest blow to CGI...
View ArticleIt's Bad Cop, Worse Cop in 'Police Power: Police Abuses in New York City'
A window-washer and his wife were having drinks at a Harlem bar. When they quaffed their fill, she went out to get a cab: an average evening ending as average evenings do. But on the street, according...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: In Sierra Leone, Villagers Starting to Believe Ebola Is Real
There was a critical moment when I realized this current Ebola outbreak, already out of control, was going to get much worse. It was while I was waiting in line to buy minutes for my pre-paid cell...
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The Children Of Hitler's Would-Be Killers
On July 20th this year, President Joachim Gauck of Germany led the country’s political elite in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the best-known assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, in 1944. The...
View Article'A Wrinkle in Time' to Hit the Silver Screen
A Wrinkle in Time, the beloved children’s novel, has long been a part of required elementary school reading curriculum for good reason—it’s a gripping tale of time travel. Soon, children and adults...
View ArticleRussia Masses 20,000 Troops on Ukraine Border, NATO Warns
BRUSSELS/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Russia has massed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine's border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday, its...
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To Stop Iran Gaining Nukes, Stop Rewarding It for Lying
In a perfect world, a repeated pattern of deceit and moral failure has consequences. Indeed, when trust and credibility are eroded, we dump the shady contractor, we vote out the lying politician, we...
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Hackers Attack Israel as Israel Attacks Gaza
The conflict in Gaza has cooled for the moment. As a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire enters its second day, some Gazans have returned to their homes. But a report released on the first day of the...
View ArticleUniversities Are Chasing Endowments at the Students’ Expense
The richest colleges and universities in the country are getting richer at an eye-popping rate. Harvard, with an endowment of $32.3 billion, the biggest by far of any university, is looking to raise an...
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