Spanish Priest Miguel Pajares Becomes First European to Die in Ebola Outbreak
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, 75, the first European infected by a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa, has died in hospital in Madrid, a...
View ArticleEuropean Rights Court Rules UK Prisoner Voting Ban Breaches Human Rights
Britain's ban on prisoners voting breaches their human rights, a top European court ruled on Tuesday, its latest ruling in an ongoing tussle that has riled British politicians hostile to EU human...
View Article'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot': More Than 50 Arrests in Protests Over Teen's Death...
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - An uneasy calm settled over Ferguson, Missouri, early Tuesday after a second night of violent clashes between law enforcement and residents protesting the police shooting of an...
View ArticleJailed Pussy Riot Members to Guest Star on 'House of Cards'
Two leading members of Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, may be appearing on House of Cards’s upcoming third season, a report says. Two anonymous sources...
View ArticleKing of Comedy: Newsweek's 1986 Profile of Robin Williams
This story originally appeared in Newsweek'sJuly 7, 1986 issue. It’s a warm Sunday night at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, and under the Orange Country, Calif., sky a stocky, furry, rubber-faced imp...
View ArticleIs Racism, Disguised as Compassion, at the Heart of Cultural Relevance?
In the waning days of July,This American Life host Ira Glass went to see a performance of King Lear in Central Park. Many consider the tragedy of the ailing monarch to be Shakespeare at the apogee of...
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Islamic State Supporters Hand Out Leaflets in Central London Promising 'Dawn...
Extremist supporters of Islamic State handed out leaflets promoting the establishment of a "Kahlifah" and calling on Muslims to "obey the Kahleef", on the streets central London today, witnesses have...
View ArticleAwaiting Merger, Comcast Sponsors Event Honoring FCC Commissioner
As Comcast and Time Warner Cable await the FCC’s approval of their merger, the two companies collectively donated $132,000 to a dinner honoring one of the agency’s commissioners. As Politico reported,...
View ArticleSnowboarders Sue Alta Ski Resort for Constitutional Violation
Alta Ski Resort, one of Utah’s most popular locations for skiing, has historically prohibited snowboarders. Snowboarders say Alta doesn't allow them simply because they have a reputation among skiers...
View ArticleActivists to Send Ships This Year to Challenge Israel's Blockade of Gaza
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian activists said on Tuesday they would send ships this year to the Gaza Strip to try to breach Israel's naval blockade, repeating an action that four years ago ended...
View ArticleEbola and Climate Change: Are Humans Responsible for the Severity of the...
The army base, a cut of cleared land amidst a thick, verdant, unnamed jungle, is filled with soldiers and locals, dead or dying of a mystery disease. A pile of bodies burns outside. At the sound of a...
View ArticleWatch the Discovery of the T-Rex in This Clip From 'Dinosaur 13'
Twenty-four years ago today, a paleontologist named Sue Hendrickson discovered some very old bones in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dokota. They were, in fact, 65 million years old....
View Article'Stay': Robin Williams and the Argument Against Suicide
I don’t often return to a book I’ve already written about, but the apparent suicide of actor Robin Williams made me think of a book I covered in the fall, Jennifer Michael Hecht’s excellent Stay: A...
View ArticleRussian Humanitarian Aid Convoy Raises ‘Trojan Horse’ Suspicions En Route to...
A 280-truck Russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid has left Moscow for eastern Ukraine amid fears it could be a cover for a stealth invasion.Russia says the 2,000 tonnes of aid is primarily intended...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Villages Are Creating Their Own ‘Quarantines’ to Isolate the...
The small villages in the far east of Sierra Leone have been dealing with Ebola for so long they’ve developed their own unique methods of resiliency.In the chieftaincy of Peje Bongre, Paramount Chief...
View ArticleU.S. Could Announce More Troops to Iraq: Officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration may announce on Tuesday a decision to send more military advisers to Iraq, U.S. officials said, as the United States helps confront radical Islamist...
View ArticlePhotos: Ferguson, Missouri, Looks Like a War Zone
For three days, demonstrations and police crackdown has taken over the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where police shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, an unarmed black teenager, on Saturday...
View ArticleChile's Catholic Church Says Priest Stole Babies for Adoption
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Catholic church confirmed on Tuesday that a priest was instrumental in the forced adoption of at least two babies without the knowledge of their mothers, and had also...
View ArticleBarack Obama: Death of Michael Brown Is 'Heartbreaking'
President Barack Obama said in a statement on Tuesday that the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black student in Missouri, was "heartbreaking." The statement comes after...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: The UN’s 'Impartial' Investigation of Gaza Is a Joke
Tel Aviv—Today is the second day of the agreed upon three-day ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas has threatened not to renew the ceasefire when it expires unless there is an agreement in place.I just heard...
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