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Losing Your House When the Bank Already Lost Your Paperwork
This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.Florida Circuit Court Judge Diana Lewis was in a hurry. She had...
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Exclusive: Russian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin's Secret War
Lyudmila Malinina’s voice trembled as she described the secret funeral she witnessed on a recent night in her small town of Sudislavsky in the Kostroma region of central Russia. At about 8pm, a truck...
View ArticleNew York Condo Selling Parking Spots for a Cool $1 Million
Driving and parking in New York City is already a nightmare, but now there’s a prospect even more terrifying: the $1 million parking spot.A new Manhattan development, 42 Crosby Street, in Soho, will...
View ArticleUkrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing 'ISIS-Style' War Crimes
Groups of right-wing Ukrainian nationalists are committing war crimes in the rebel-held territories of Eastern Ukraine, according to a report from Amnesty International, as evidence emerged in local...
View ArticleSlavoj Žižek On 'Self Plagiarism' in The New York Times: What's the Big Deal?
On September 4, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek titled "ISIS Is a Disgrace to True Fundamentalism." In it, Žižek asks, "[Are] the...
View ArticleRussia Tests ICBM; Putin Complains About NATO Rhetoric
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence to counter what he called growing security threats, after Moscow test-launched an...
View ArticleBP Says Lab Studies Can’t Prove Spill’s Harm, but New Evidence Says They Can
Speaking to a ballroom packed with environmental journalists last Wednesday evening, Geoff Morrell, BP's vice president of U.S. communications, declared a leading study on harm caused by its 2010 oil...
View ArticleIsraeli Policeman Charged for Beating American Teen Tariq Khdeir
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli policeman was charged on Wednesday with assault causing bodily harm against a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent during a protest over the revenge killing of...
View ArticleApple Is Finally Killing the iPod Classic
Once, it was the iconic model of the future: a sleek white design, a futuristic click wheel, and a once-inconceivable storage capacity. Now it’s going the way of the Walkman. That’s the Apple news that...
View ArticleHow is Net Neutrality Working for the Countries That Have It?
Today, websites including Netflix, reddit and Etsy are participating in a day of protest to draw attention to Net neutrality—the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all Internet...
View ArticleThe Link Between Sunshine and Suicide
Since the early 1800s, scientists have known about a seemingly paradoxical relationship between the seasons and suicide rates: Suicides soar in the spring, rather than winter. Even more...
View ArticleWeed-Smoking Teens 60 Percent Less Likely to Finish High School, Study Says
According to a new set of studies published in a paper in the British journal The Lancet Psychiatry, teenagers who smoke pot daily are 60 percent less likely than nonusers to finish high school. The...
View ArticlePhotos: The Fall of the Catskills
The Catskills were once a potent and affordable draw for Jews seeking to escape the suffocating heat, grating work conditions and anti-Semitism. NoYesYesWebphotos, fall, catskillsWhitelist
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Photographing the End of the Borscht Belt in the Catskills
Had photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, 33, been born a few decades earlier, she would have grown up in the heart of America’s quintessential vacationland rather than its modern-day ruins. When Scheinfeld...
View ArticlePresident Obama to Tell TV Audience His Plan to ‘Destroy’ Islamic State
President Barack Obama will announce his plans to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Sunni Muslim jihadists of the Islamic State, the group commonly known as ISIS, in a prime-time speech scheduled...
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On Internet Slowdown Day, Are Websites Conceding That Net Neutrality is Dead?
The “loading” wheel.It’s the modern symbol of frustration but an image 76 websites are voluntarily embracing and proudly displaying for today’s Internet Slowdown Day—an online protest for stronger net...
View ArticleObama Addresses Nation on Plans to Destroy ISIS
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View ArticleRoger Goodell Is Either Incompetent or a Liar. Either Way, He’s Gotta Go.
It may be time for the National Football League to punt Roger Goodell.On Tuesday afternoon the Associated Press, citing an anonymous source in law enforcement, reported that the notorious videotape...
View ArticleSaudis Tip-Toe Into the War on ISIS
Western technicians at Dhahran Air Base like to joke that the only aircraft the Saudis can keep in the air by themselves is a model of a British Tornado on a pedestal at the gates.Indeed, the entire...
View ArticleSupport and Skepticism Follow Obama's Plan to Destroy ISIS
After President Obama announced his plan to “destroy” the terrorist group Islamic State, commonly known as ISIS, in a live broadcast Wednesday evening, pundits and politicians were quick to react. Sen....
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