Brazil Could Save Its Atlantic Forests for Just $200 Million a Year
The forests surrounding some of Brazil’s biggest cities, like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, are home to a dizzying variety of life, with iconic species like golden lion tamarins (pictured above), maned...
View ArticleHackers Steal Sensitive Data From JPMorgan and Other Banks
Hackers have stolen gigabytes of sensitive data from JPMorgan Chase and at least four other banks in a series of complex cyberattacks. In mid-August, a group of hackers broke into the banks’ computer...
View ArticleNATO Diplomats Give Russians Geography Lessons on Twitter
Once upon a time, wars were fought solely on battlefields, with soldiers fighting face to face. Nowadays war is waged through social media, too, and the latest battleground is Twitter, where western...
View ArticleGrow Marijuana for the Government, a New Job Listing Says
Do you have a green thumb, at least 12 acres of land and a lot of time on your hands? You may be eligible to grow pot for the federal government. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) posted a...
View ArticleThe Falling Star: The Many Lies and Mysteries of USC’s Josh Shaw
Josh Shaw is the man who fell to earth. From a second- or third-story balcony, not in Palmdale, Calif., but near downtown Los Angeles, onto an unforgiving surface. From team captain for the University...
View ArticleExclusive: How Josh Shaw Fooled USC
The faint aroma of skepticism that wafted through the University of Southern California athletic department last Monday morning has since been overtaken by the noxious stench of stunned disbelief. Josh...
View ArticleScottish Referendum 'No' Campaign's Lead Halved After Debate
Support for Scottish independence has risen by 4 percent after the final TV debate before a breakaway referendum in less than three weeks' time, one opinion poll showed on Friday, halving the...
View ArticleFerguson Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch's Long History of Siding With the Police
On the afternoon of June 12, 2000, two unarmed black men pulled into the parking lot of a Jack in the Box in the northern suburbs of St. Louis, just a few miles from where Michael Brown was killed by a...
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Ebola Frontline: Surviving the Quarantines Requires Generosity and Creativity...
As more NGOs pull staff from Ebola-affected countries, quarantined families and villages need more help than ever. Those who are stepping up to help in Sierra Leone are often Sierra Leoneans...
View ArticleIsrael Has Officially Banned Fluoridation of Its Drinking Water
On Tuesday of this week (Aug. 26), Israel officially stopped adding fluoride to its water supplies. The decision has “been lauded by various rights groups, but criticized by many in the medical and...
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North Korea Owes Sweden €300m for 1,000 Volvos It Stole 40 Years Ago - And Is...
North Korea’s foremost trade debt to the western world is bizarre even by North Korean standards. Each time the administration misses a payment, as it has done every year for the past 40 years, we are...
View ArticleRussia Says Open to Gas Talks With Ukraine, Offers Discount
Russia is open to talks on resuming gas supplies to Ukraine and willing to offer a price cut of nearly 20 percent, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday, but the discounted price is still...
View ArticleFantasy Football Draft Advice: 4 Ways to Purposefully Mess With Your Leaguemates
Chances are high that your fantasy football league will have at least one, and probably three or four, team owners that are more or less dead weight. They’ll start off involved. They’ll come to the...
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Dubbed Terrorists, Mayans Fight Back Against Guatemalan Mining Projects
The road between the Guatemalan towns of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Quetzaltenango is guarded by a dozen thin, young, Mayan men in baseball caps and hooded sweatshirts, who mill around a truck parked...
View ArticleUkraine Seeks Protection of NATO Membership in Response to Russian Incursions
Ukraine said on Friday it would seek the protection of NATO membership after what Kiev and its Western allies say is the open participation of the Russian military in the war in Ukraine's eastern...
View ArticleFerguson Slapped with $40 Million Civil Rights Lawsuit
A group of Missouri residents, including a clinical social worker, are suing the city and police department of Ferguson for $40 million for what they describe as “wanton and excessive force” by police...
View ArticleBritain Raises Terrorism Threat to 'Severe'
Britain raised its international terrorism threat level to the second highest level of "severe" on Friday in response to possible attacks being planned in Syria and Iraq, Home Secretary (interior...
View ArticleTwo Teenage Girls Arrested Over French Synagogue Suicide Bomb Plot
Two teenage girls have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to blow up a synagogue in Lyon, French news websites have reported.According to JSS News and Europe 1, a source from the French security...
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Mexico's 'House of Cards' Hits Too Close to Home
There’s the handsome, young president who puts his foot in his mouth frequently. There’s the corrupt governor caught on camera accepting a briefcase full of money in his office. And there’s the...
View ArticlePutin Orders Rebels to Allow Surrounded Ukrainian Troops to Escape
Pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine will comply with a Kremlin request to allow surrounded Ukrainian government troops to safely leave rebel-held areas.Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy...
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