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The First HIV/AIDS Generation Reaches Retirement Age
Bill Fauber keeps a Post-it pad in every room of his pristine Palm Springs condo. Each afternoon, his metal stairway banister fills up with a line of bright yellow, pink, green and orange stickies...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Is Actually Eight Distinct Genetic Disorders: New Study
On September 15, the Washington University School of Medicine published a study in The American Journal of Psychiatry revealing that schizophrenia, commonly thought of as a single mental disorder, is...
View ArticleTainted Measles Vaccine Eyed in Deaths of 15 Children in Syria
More than 15 children have died in northern Syria after receiving a measles vaccine, but the cause of their death remains unknown.Reports suggest medics administering the vaccines gave the children —...
View ArticleIslamic State Shows Captive British Journalist in New Video
Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Thursday that they said shows British journalist John Cantlie in captivity saying he will soon reveal "facts" about the group to...
View ArticleJesus Was Crucified Because Disciples Were Armed, Bible Analysis Suggests
Jesus may have been crucified because his followers were carrying weapons, according to a scholarly analysis of New Testament books. Dale Martin, a professor of religious studies at Yale University,...
View ArticleLeaks Claim 40 ISIS Cells Are Waiting to Strike Lebanon
The morning after Obama promised to “degrade and ultimately destroy” Isis, Lebanon woke up to news of more fatal clashes with jihadists on its fraying borders. In Beirut’s glittering Downtown district,...
View ArticleISIS Releases New Video of Captured British Journalist John Cantlie
The terrorist organization known as the Islamic State released yet another new video today. Unlike previous videos, which depicted the brutal beheadings of captured journalists James Foley and Steven...
View ArticleFantasy Football Week 3: Alt Bros In the Suburbs, Plus Nick Kroll’s Week 3 Picks
A friend of mine recently made the apt observation that Facebook has, for our generation, turned into the suburbs of the Internet. It used to be where we found out where the party was at; now it’s...
View ArticleIndependence Diary: Fiery Bagpiper Leads Yes March Through Edinburgh Streets
Leading some 40 to 50 men, women and children clad in Yes paraphernalia, a Scottish bagpiper makes his way through Edinburgh’s neighbourhood of Craigmillar.“The people of Scotland will have their say...
View ArticleFeminist Video Game Critic Receives Bomb Threats at Award Ceremony
The FBI is investigating death threats made against Anita Sarkeesian, host and creator of Feminist Frequency, a video series critiquing how women are represented in popular culture.Sarkeesian told...
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After NYC Climate March, Activists to Sit on Wall Street Until Forcibly Removed
On Sunday, tens of thousands of people are expected to assemble in Central Park in New York City for what organizers say will be the biggest climate change march in U.S. history. More than 1,000...
View ArticleU2 and Apple Are Working on a Digital Music Format to Get People to Pay for...
What a tangle of contradictions it is to be U2 in 2014. The Irish rock group has a “plan to save the music industry,” according to Time, but hasn’t managed to produce a solidly great record since 2000....
View ArticleApple Boasts It Can No Longer Give Your Data to Police
As people download iOS 8, Apple’s new operating system, they’ll notice some fun new features, like voice texting and a hands-free Siri. But Apple says there is a less noticeable change, which it seems...
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Stateless in New York: A Woman's Life as a 'Legal Ghost'
When she was a schoolgirl in Kuwait, Mona Kareem would ask her parents why she didn't have a passport and why they never left the country to visit relatives. Kareem, 26, and her family are bedoons,...
View ArticleKurdish Villages Captured as ISIS Advances Through Syria
Fighters with Islamic State (IS) are rapidly advancing across northern Syria after they seized at least a dozen Kurdish villages in the north of the country. Kurdish military officials said fighters...
View ArticleAnother Scottish Vote: Golf Club to Accept Women Members
While the world waits for the results of Scotland’s independence referendum, the results of another vote are in. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews decided Thursday to admit women as...
View ArticleOne Dose of An Antidepressant Can Change Your Brain, Study Says
Depression is an incredibly common mental health disorder — in the U.S., for example, at least 10 percent of adults experience depression. And yet, treating depression remains an incredibly complex,...
View ArticleUkraine President Secures U.S. Military Aid but Not Weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko secured $53 million in assistance from the United States on Thursday but President Barack Obama for now turned down his appeals for weapons to...
View ArticleHome Depot: 56 million Card Details Likely Stolen
(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc said on Thursday that data could have been stolen from 56 million payment cards by criminals who used malware from April to September to hack into its systems at stores in...
View ArticleSupport for Scottish Independence at 46 Percent: YouGov Poll
Support for Scottish independence amounts to 46 percent of the electorate with 54 percent wanting to stay in the United Kingdom, according to a poll by YouGov carried out on the day of the...
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