NFL Commissioner Goodell Promises Broad Changes, Offers No Specifics
Commissioner Roger Goodell of the National Football League (NFL) today announced the league will "re-examine, enhance, and improve all of [its] current programs" with respect to how the league handles...
View ArticleClinton Tests Some Themes That Sound Awfully Presidential
Ahead of a likely presidential run in 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is honing her message.On Friday, she spoke at the Democratic National Committee’s annual Women’s Leadership Forum...
View ArticleWhat Will U.S. Forces Do With ISIS Prisoners?
Washington’s ramped up war on the Islamic State looks like an airliner lifting off the runway with mechanics still working on the wings.Among the many unresolved issues in the campaign to “degrade and...
View ArticleEbola Frontline: Three-Day, Nationwide Quarantine Begins in Sierra Leone
On Thursday afternoon, when the the Sierra Leone national three-day lockdown was just hours away, the marketplace in central Kenema was busy. Kaisamba Terrace, the road that bisects the sprawling...
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In a Brooklyn Warehouse, Prepping for the Climate March With Art
On Friday afternoon on the terrace of a warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the sun was hot, and paint was drying quickly. Activists and artists crouched over bright banners bearing anti-tar sands...
View ArticleN.Korea Says Imprisoned American Tried to Become 'Second Snowden'
SEOUL (Reuters) - An American recently sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court pretended to have secret U.S. information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and...
View Article60,000 Syrian Kurds Flee to Turkey as Islamic State Advances
About 60,000 Syrian Kurds fled into Turkey in the space of 24 hours, a deputy prime minister said on Saturday, as Islamic State militants seized dozens of villages close to the border.Turkey opened a...
View ArticleThe Pacific Starfish Die-Off Continues, but There Is New Hope
A grisly horror show is playing out along the West Coast of North America. Remains of millions of dead and dying sea stars, commonly known as starfish, litter the shoreline from Vancouver to San Diego....
View ArticleSlender Man Halloween Costume Horrifies Wisconsin Town Where Attack Occurred,...
Last May, two twelve-year-old girls in a small Wisconsin town took a friend out to the woods and attempted to kill her. Why? Apparently to appease Slender Man, the paranormal urban legend and Internet...
View ArticleRogue Fencehopper Makes it Inside White House Doors, Misses Obama by Minutes
On Friday night, a man hopped the White House fence, sprinted across the green and got in through the north doors before he was arrested by Secret Service. President Barack Obama had left for Camp...
View ArticleChild Prodigies Are Getting Younger and Younger, But What Happens When They...
It’s said that you’re only young once—and sometimes not even that.“Canada’s piano superstar is 8 years old,” proclaimed the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. earlier this year. The superstar in question,...
View ArticleBoko Haram Shootout in Nigerian Town Leaves at Least People 36 Dead
Fighters from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern town of Mainok on Friday, sparking a gun battle that killed at least 36 people and continued into Saturday, two...
View ArticleIndia and China Cement Trade Deal as Troops Face Off Across the Border
India and China’s leaders have successfully agreed in Delhi on plans for economic and other co-operation despite over 1,000 troops from each side facing off against each other in Ladakh on the two...
View ArticleHow Gatorade Nailed Jeter's 'My Way' Ad
An iconic 90-second Derek Jeter Gatorade ad,“Made in New York,” shot in black-and-white last July and accompanied by Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” first appeared on the web on Thursday. On Saturday it...
View ArticleNew App Lets You Have Birth Control Delivered to Your Door
Whether you want food or furniture delivered to your front door, there's an app for it. If you live in Washington state or Minnesota, you can now receive care from health professionals and birth...
View ArticleU.S. and Canada Intercept Eight Russian Military Jets off North American...
Earlier this week, U.S. and Canadian fighter jets deflected eight Russian military aircrafts nearing the North American coast. Officials confirmed that on Wednesday night, two American F-22 fighter...
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Quora Question: Why Do People Think Apple Pay Is so Innovative When Android...
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleDIY Opium Created From Yeast Draws on Science of Beer Brewing
Tell your friends you’re tossing yeast into a fermenting vat and they’ll probably think you’re putting the finishing touches on a new batch of beer. But one group of scientists, led by Christina...
View ArticleSpain to Repatriate Priest Diagnosed with Ebola in Sierra Leone
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain on Sunday sent a military plane to Sierra Leone to repatriate a Spanish Catholic priest working in the African country who has tested positive for the Ebola virus, the...
View ArticleKurds Issue New Call to Arms Against Islamic State in Syria
Kurdish militants in Turkey have issued a new call to arms to defend a border town in northern Syria from advancing Islamic State fighters, and the Turkish authorities and United Nations prepared on...
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