Pope Says He Considered Trip to Northern Iraq
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Monday the international community would be justified in stopping Islamist militants in Iraq but that it should not be up to a single nation to decide how to...
View ArticleDonetsk Separatists Introduce the Death Penalty for Treason
The government of the breakaway region of Donetsk in Ukraine announced that it will introduce the death penalty for serious crimes, including treason, after the first meeting of the separatist Council...
View ArticleMagnetic Bacteria Could Help Destroy Tumors and Fight Cancer
Surgery. Radiotherapy. Chemotherapy. Those are the cancer treatments most of us are familiar with, and in many cases, even all three combined are not enough to provide a complete cure. But a new and...
View ArticleThe Sexual Predator App With a 100 Percent Conviction Rate
When Bryan Woldman arrived at an AMC movie theater in suburban Illinois earlier this year, he thought he was meeting a 12-year-old girl for a sexual rendezvous. Instead, the 36-year-old personal...
View ArticleRacial Equality in the Age of Obama
During the past week Ferguson, Missouri, twelve miles away from St. Louis, has became ground zero in the nation’s long running racial political drama that resulted in the governor declaring a state of...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Dear Committee Members' Is Worthy of a Recommendation Letter
It tricky enough to write an epistolary novel in an age when texting and email have made the letter a cultural artifact nearly on par with the papyrus scroll; to write a work of fiction composed...
View ArticleBioterror Lab Accidents Happen Far More Often Than We Thought
From 2008 to 2012, laboratories conducting research on potential bioterrorism weapons logged more than 1,100 accidents. That figure, chronicled in government reports obtained by USA Today, includes a...
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Photographer Searches for Cuba's Boat Refugees
The black-and-white photographs show throngs of Cubans pushing rickety rafts onto sea, some climbing up on them, others circling around like sharks. Their loved ones wave them off from the shore,...
View ArticleNew Frog Species Found, Already Recommended For Endangered Listing
The good news: scientists have discovered a colorful new species of tree frog in a nature preserve in northwestern Madagascar. The bad news: due to how small the area is in which the frog is found and...
View ArticleIslamic State Message to America: 'We Will Drown All of You in Blood'
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Islamic State militant group that has seized large parts of Iraq and drawn the first American air strikes since the end of the occupation in 2011 has warned the United States it...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Belief in 'Ebola Hoax' Causes Unrest in Liberia and Sierra...
On Saturday evening, a mob attacked an Ebola Treatment Center in central Monrovia, the capital of Liberia and one of the areas hardest hit by the outbreak. Brandishing clubs, they broke through the...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Schools Teach How to Dodge Missiles
Tel Aviv -- At the request of the Egyptians, the ceasefire in Gaza has been extended by 24 hours. An agreement was not reached, but there are those who are optimistic that another 24 hours could...
View ArticleDeal Reached to Extend Gaza Ceasefire by 24 Hours
Israel and Palestine have agreed to extend their five-day ceasefire by 24 hours, Palestinian and Israeli officials have confirmed. The ceasefire, which was set to expire at midnight, or 5 p.m. EST,...
View ArticleObama Will Send Attorney General to Ferguson to Assist with Civil Rights...
President Obama announced he would send Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with FBI and DoJ officials investigating the death of Michael Brown. At a press conference, Obama...
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Words and Images from Ferguson
Newsweek reporter Alexander Nazaryan traveled to Ferguson, Missouri, to report on the days of unrest and protest that followed the shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police...
View ArticleNational Guard Troops Arrive in Ferguson As Protesters March For the Ninth Night
On the ninth night of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, the temporary curfew has been lifted and National Guard troops have arrived. But with another journalist arrested Monday and more protesters...
View ArticleOn Death Mountain, the Yazidis Faced a Desperate Struggle
In his former life in Mosul, Iraq, before he was driven out by the radical jihadists of the Islamic State, Khudeid Da Khalas, 49, had the grand title of “official representative of the Yazidi...
View ArticleTo defeat the Islamic State, the U.S. may have to arm Sunnis
Sometimes it pays to be counterintuitive. To save Iraq from total collapse and prevent it from turning into a terrorist haven, America may need to find ways to cooperate with Sunni groups opposed to...
View Article31 Arrested as Police Come Under 'Heavy Fire' in Ferguson
Police came under "heavy gunfire" and 31 people were arrested, authorities said on Tuesday, during racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black...
View Article15 Bodies Retrieved After Ukraine Convoy Attack
Fifteen bodies have so far been recovered from the site of Monday's rocket strike on a refugee convoy of buses and cars in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Tuesday."By 7 p.m. last night we...
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