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Looting and Damage in Baja as Hurricane Odile Weakens
Tropical Storm Odile, which made landfall as Category 3 hurricane, weakened as it made its way up Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, after causing major damage to homes, roads and the area's airports...
View ArticleSpanish Minister Says Independent Scotland Unlikely to Join EU and Keep Pound
A leading Spanish politician has contradicted Alex Salmond’s pledge to negotiate European Union membership “from within”, saying it would take an independent Scotland five years to join the EU, and it...
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Report: Texas’ Proposed New Textbooks Offer False Information, Climate Change...
Texas public schools will teach its students from kindergarten through grade 12 false information regarding climate change and ozone depletion if a series of proposed textbooks pass a Texas Board of...
View ArticleFirst 'Blood Test for Depression' Holds Promise of Objective Diagnosis
Researchers have created a blood test that they have used to accurately diagnose depression in a small sample of people, and they hope that with time and funding it could be used on a widespread basis....
View ArticleFBI Announces Its Facial Recognition System Is Ready to Go
After more than three years of development, the FBI announced on Monday the completion of its Next Generation Identification (NGI) System, a facial recognition system that has civil liberties groups...
View ArticleThey Got Beaned! How the A’s Flunked Moneyball
“No matter how successful you are, change is always good.”—Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane to author Michael Lewis, MoneyballExcept when it’s not. On July 31, the Oakland Athletics had...
View ArticleThe Meteor That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Changed Earth’s Plant Life, Too
The meteor that hit the Earth millions of years ago and is believed to have caused the dinosaurs’ extinction also led to a major re-composition of forests and completely shifted the landscape of...
View ArticleCongress Gets Ready to Arm Syrian Rebels
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives began debating legislation on Tuesday to authorize President Barack Obama's plan to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Answers Questions About His New Book on Reddit
Julian Assange, the co-creator of WikiLeaks, answered questions about his new book, When Google Met WikiLeaks, as part of an "Ask Me Anything" event on Reddit yesterday. The book tells the story of...
View ArticleDecades After Auschwitz, Former Guard Charged With Accessory to Murder
In the nearly seven decades since the Nazi death camps were liberated, only a fraction of the SS members who served at Auschwitz-Birkenau have been prosecuted. One, 93-year-old Oskar Groening, was...
View ArticleTel Aviv: ISIS Is Merely the Latest Threat to the Jewish State
This week residents of Israel woke up to reports that a leading army analyst warned that in the next war Hezbollah will successfully seize a few Israeli villages near the border – before being beaten...
View ArticleBoeing and SpaceX Will Fly Astronauts to the International Space Station
In a much anticipated announcement, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said today (Sep. 16) during a webcast that spacecraft made by Boeing Company and SpaceX will carry American astronauts to the...
View ArticleScottish Socialists Push for Yes Vote to Smash ‘British Imperialist State’
While most Scots have been debating whether to vote yes to ending their three century long union with England in Thursday’s referendum over trivial issues like currency, cuts to the health service, and...
View ArticleVermont’s Flawed Health Care Site Put On Life Support
Vermont’s glitch-plagued health insurance website, once a beacon for health care reform, has been put into a medically-induced coma. The state temporarily pulled the plug on its online insurance...
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Dear PR People Everywhere: I Am Not Your Savior
At a routine editorial meeting late last month, I pitched my editor on a spur-of-the-moment story idea: I would read and respond to every PR email I received for a week, then write about the presumably...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Western Countries Save Their Own Health Care Workers, Leave...
On Sunday, Dr. Olivet Buck, the fourth doctor to contract Ebola in Sierra Leone, passed away from the disease. It was another depressing note of bad news in what has now been a series of months laden...
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Gay Conversion Therapy Lives On in China
Xiao Jun, a 30-year-old who works for a business training firm in Beijing, had had enough. He had moved last year from his hometown of Guangzhou, in Guangdong province, southeastern China’s capital...
View ArticleIndependence Diary: Scottish ‘Hug a No Voter’ Event Gets Traditional Glasgow...
Scottish pro-independence campaigners in Glasgow came out in their hundreds to the city’s St. George’s Square to encourage fellow Scots to vote Yes in the upcoming independence referendum last...
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The Plan to Nuke the Moon and Other Cold War Plots Revealed in Secret Documents
Wrestling with the huge steering wheel, a CIA agent carefully backed the large flatbed truck through an entrance in the 10-foot wooden fence surrounding a salvage yard. As the truck rumbled to a stop,...
View ArticleiPhone Comes Out of a 'Bygone Era' as Reviewers Hail Bigger Handset
Bigger is better and Apple Inc has finally realized that and given iPhone users a product that may be low on novelty but high on improvements, reviewers wrote.Most reviewers say that the iPhone 6 is...
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