China Investigating American Peter Hahn Near North Korean Border
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) - A Korean-American who runs a Christian NGO in a Chinese city on the border with North Korea is being investigated by Chinese authorities and has had his bank accounts frozen,...
View ArticleLarry David to Play—Surprise!—Himself in Broadway Debut
Here’s some pretty, pretty, pretty good news forCurb Your Enthusiasm fans: Actor and comedian Larry David will debut his first Broadway play, Fish in the Dark, this winter. David is cagey about details...
View ArticlePrinceton Looks to Scrap ‘Grade Quotas’
Princeton may be bringing an end to its decade-long era of “grade deflation.” If school administrators follow the advice of a new report released by a school committee charged with reviewing the...
View ArticleOrigami Robot Can Self-Assemble and Walk Without Human Help
A research team at Harvard and MIT announced today that they’ve created a self-assembling robot. The machine, which begins as a flat sheet of material, exploits principles of origami to fold itself...
View ArticleThe Very Pretty Cristiano Ronaldo Endorses Baffling Face Strengthening Wand
Do your facial muscles tire when you try to sustain a fake smile for family photos? Are you disappointed by your non-paparazzi-ready cheekbones? Well, stop trying to strengthen your buns and thighs and...
View ArticleHamas Says It Executed Palestinians Suspected of Aiding Israel
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas said on Thursday it had executed several Palestinians on suspicion of helping Israeli forces during the month-long Gaza war."The spies were executed after they were caught...
View ArticleObama Considering U.S. Airstrikes to Help Religious Minorities in Iraq
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes and emergency relief airdrops to help 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who are trapped on a mountaintop after threats by Islamic...
View ArticleThe Timberwolves Can Be Better With a Little Less Love
Minnesota State University-Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota. Some time in the near future. It is the opening day of training camp for your 2014-2015 Minnesota Timberwolves. Inside the locker room, as the...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Pens Letter as Dumbledore to Console Sole Survivor of Texas...
Last month, Cassidy Stay’s parents and four siblings were killed in a jealousy-fueled massacre in Houston. Stay, 15, survived the assault by pretending to be dead. Once the shooter—her aunt’s former...
View ArticleWhat Happens if the WHO Declares Ebola an ‘Emergency of International Concern’?
A committee of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is set to announce Friday its decision on what, if anything, the international community should do about the unprecedented Ebola...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Sierra Leone’s Ebola Epicenter is On Lockdown
When President Ernest Bai Koroma announced a State of Emergency on July 30, many Sierra Leonians hoped that it would mean the government would finally get a handle on the unprecedented Ebola outbreak....
View ArticleCDC Activates Emergency Operation Center for Ebola Outbreak
(Reuters) - The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday he has activated the agency's emergency operation center at the highest response level to help respond...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Us to Think About Cancer Differently
Cancer is typically classified by where the cancerous tissues originated—so cells clustering in the lungs are called “lung cancer,” and those in the throat are “throat cancer.” But many kinds of cancer...
View ArticleCourt Throws Out Real-Life ‘Kramer’s’ $1 Million Suit Against Seinfeld Writer
The New York Supreme Court has dismissed a $1-million suit brought by Kenny “The Real” Kramer, the inspiration for Seinfeld character Cosmo Kramer, against Fred Stoller, one of the show’s writers, and...
View ArticleThe End of the Ceasefire Looms. Hamas’s Impossible Demands
There are less than 11 hours left to the initial Hamas-Israeli ceasefire. Israelis were quick to celebrate the seeming end of the war by returning to the shopping malls. Last night the cafes and bars...
View ArticleIntelligence Source: Turks Launch Bombing Strikes on ISIS
A former high ranking CIA official in Baghdad tells Newsweek that Turkish jets carried out airstrikes on Islamic State (I.S.) militants threatening Kurdish refugees--an assertion that Ankara denies....
View ArticleIsrael Launches Air Strikes on Gaza After Palestinians Fire Rockets
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel launched air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to Palestinian rockets fired after Egyptian-mediated talks failed to extend a 72-hour truce in the...
View ArticleWHO Declares Ebola Epidemic an International Health Emergency
LONDON/MONROVIA (Reuters) - West Africa's Ebola epidemic constitutes an international health emergency and the virus, which has killed nearly 1,000 people, could continue spreading for months, the...
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American Horror, Ivy League Edition
In 1911, the fictional Dink Stover arrived at Yale, “leisurely divested himself of his trim overcoat” and coolly strolled into campus life. “He had come to conquer,” writes Owen Johnson in the 1912...
View ArticleGovernment To Take Over Malaysia Airlines In 'Complete Overhaul'
Malaysia's government will carry out a "complete overhaul" of its troubled national airline in an attempt to revive the loss-making company after it was hit by two devastating jetliner disasters this...
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