Yankees Get a Future Star in Japanese Pitcher, but It Costs Them
The New York Yankees finally won something: the Masahiro Tanaka sweepstakes.The Yankees, who have not won a World Series since way back in 2009, outbid at least three other serious suitors --the Los...
View ArticleThe Funny-Money Man Behind McDonnell's Fall
In a ballroom at New York City's Four Seasons hotel, a hectic swirl of politicians, contributors and hangers-on bustled about, smiling and glad-handing at another of the untold number of "meet and...
View ArticleFive Men Arrested Three Decades After 'Goodfellas' JFK Heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five men believed to be mobsters were taken into custody on Thursday on charges of murder and other crimes linked to an long-unsolved 1978 Lufthansa heist at New York's John F....
View ArticleWho’s Who in Bridgegate: A Christie Whodunnit
It started out small. Four days. Two lanes. One angry mayor. A traffic jam in Fort Lee. "It's not that big of deal," New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie insisted.Then, two weeks ago, the scandal,...
View ArticleWall Street's Reefer Madness
What did you expect when President Obama pronounces marijuana no “more dangerous than alcohol”?Wall Street is calling it the “green rush,” but as more than 20 states approve marijuana for medicinal...
View ArticleUkraine President Hints at Compromise, but PM Slams Protesters
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich called for an emergency session of parliament to end political crisis and violent unrest, in a sign he might be ready to soften his hardline...
View ArticleUkrainian Riot Police Caught on Video Making Naked Man Stand in Snow, Taking...
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian riot police made a detained protester strip and then stand naked in the snow while they took pictures of him, a video posted on a newspaper's website showed.The video,...
View ArticleBombs in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) - A wave of bomb attacks hit Cairo on Friday, killing six people and raising fears that an Islamist insurgency is gaining pace on the eve of the third anniversary of the uprising that...
View ArticleSnowden’s Red Dawn
Give the hard-liners credit: After one stunning revelation after another about the National Security Agency’s Orwellian spying operations, they finally managed to land a punch this week on Edward...
View ArticleChristie’s Elliot Ness
While vowing to “cooperate with all appropriate inquiries” into the politically motivated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last fall, embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hired a...
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Today in Tabs: Diseased Cannibal Tabs from Planet Hillary
When we look back at the 2016 presidential race, bloody, beaten, much less innocent than we are now (as implausible as that might seem), we will identify this NY Times Magazine cover as the official...
View ArticleObamacare Enrollment Hits Three Million: Official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people enrolled in private health insurance under Obamacare has soared by more than one-third in recent weeks to around 3 million, according to government data...
View ArticleOpinion: What Mike Huckabee Wants to Take Away From Women
Memo to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and the bosses at for-profit corporations who think they belong in every doctor’s office and that they should be able to decide whether their employees...
View ArticleFrench DJ Duo Daft Punk, Teenage Lorde Take Top Grammys
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two unconventional acts, French electronic music DJs Daft Punk and New Zealand teen Lorde, took home the top Grammy awards on Sunday in a night that rewarded robots and...
View ArticleMiles Teller’s Not-So-Rough Landing
Just because Miles Teller has been called the "breakout star" of the Sundance Film Festival for two years running doesn't mean he’s got a problem with acne. True, the jazz drumming prodigy of Damien...
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Today in Tabs: Kleiner, Perkins, Nachtmusik
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins took a little time off from killing people with his sailboat and writing terrible romance fiction to complain that criticism of the one percent by the...
View ArticleSaving Syria: With the Clock Ticking, a Dearth of Women and Ideas
Outside the Palace of Nations, the United Nations headquarters in Geneva where the Syrian war was being debated, demonstrators held up signs: Your Silence is Killing Children.It was a harsh reminder...
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Muslim in China, Chinese in Egypt
‘Musilin’ (穆斯林) means Muslim in Chinese. This project records young people moving from China to Egypt to study, and understand Islam. They are Muslim - but they do not know much about this religion....
View ArticleMillennials Not That Into 'Things' and That Goes for Cars Too
2013 was a banner year for the millennial trend piece. We learned that millennials are compulsive self-branders, overgrown fixtures of their parents' basements, reckless propagators of empty culture,...
View ArticleFolk Singer Pete Seeger Dies at 94
(Reuters) - Pete Seeger, who helped create the modern American folk music movement, co-wrote enduring songs like "If I Had a Hammer" and in turn became a leading voice for social justice, died on...
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