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$21.6 Million in Counterfeit NFL Goods Seized Ahead of Super Bowl
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Phony NFL merchandise and tickets worth $21.6 million have been seized and 50 people arrested in a crackdown on counterfeiting ahead of this weekend's Super Bowl, U.S. law...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson quits charity after Israeli settlement uproar
(Reuters) - Actress Scarlett Johansson has quit her role as an ambassador for Oxfam, the charity said on Thursday, after she fell out with group for endorsing an Israeli firm operating in the occupied...
View ArticleSuicide Bombers Storm Iraq Ministry Building, 24 Killed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six suicide bombers burst into an Iraqi ministry building, took hostages and killed at least 24 people including themselves on Thursday before security forces regained control,...
View ArticleU.S. to Seek Death Penalty for Accused Marathon Bomber Tsarnaev
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death if he is found guilty of planting bombs that killed three people and wounded 264 at the Boston Marathon last year, the...
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Today in Tabs: It Happened to Us All
It Happened To Her:a black woman got all in her skinny white girl area. And she felt feelings and cried! And then it happened to all of us. And it kept happening. It literally would not stop happening....
View ArticleHouse Republicans: Holed Up, Plotting Their Next Steps
CAMBRIDGE, Maryland -- Far from the U.S. capital, on a 400-acre resort on the banks of the Choptank River, House Republicans have hunkered down for their annual retreat, a three-day confab where the...
View ArticleAmanda Knox Found Guilty Again
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty for the second time on Thursday of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith...
View ArticleExperts Want Everyone to Stop Panicking Over ‘Off The Wall’ Formaldehyde...
Ten days after thousands of gallons of the largely unknown chemical crude-MCHM spilled into a major West Virginia water supply, residents were told their water was once again safe. But for a downtown...
View ArticleObama Calls On CEOs To Take On Long-Term Jobless
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet on Friday with the leaders of more than 20 big companies which have agreed not to discriminate against the long-term unemployed, part of his...
View ArticleHow much is Chris Christie paying Randy Mastro?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s announcement Jan. 16 that he had hired Randy Mastro, a top-tier litigator who had worked for their mutual political ally, ex-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, spurred...
View ArticleAmanda Knox Defiant After Second Murder Conviction
WASHINGTON/FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Amanda Knox vowed on Friday to fight her second conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 while the two were students together in the...
View ArticleMoney, Music and Why Lorde Matters
Like most writers, I am a tiny bit obsessed with music. Which is, admittedly, wholly unrelated to the fact I cover Wall Street and noticed this week that more than 10 million Americans remain out of...
View ArticleAs Syrian Factions Talk, Homs Starves
GENEVA (Reuters) - Some 2,500 Syrians trapped in the besieged Old City of Homs have become pawns in complex negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition, with aid agencies caught up in an...
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Narcos In The Mist
In 2007, leaders from several indigenous and peasant groups from around Honduras gathered for a press conference to denounce growing problems with drug traffickers who were, they said, seizing land at...
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Today in Tabs: Tab Bowl XLVIII
Let me put this right up front: Jon Bois's "The Machine is Bleeding to Death" in SBNation is the best and funniest thing you can read today. If you're at all short on time, just stop right here and go...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Will Not Affect Canada Oil Sands Growth: U.S. Report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is unlikely to increase the pace of Canadian oil sands development, a U.S. State Department study said on Friday, raising pressure on...
View ArticleChristie’s Political Life on The Line
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political future hangs on a single fact: that he was telling the truth when he said he had no idea his administration was involved in shutting down lanes onto the...
View ArticleThe Many Disasters Behind the West Virginia Chemical Disaster
When 10,000 gallons of industrial chemicals leak out of a tank built in the 1930s, one mile upriver from a treatment plant that supplies water to hundreds of thousands of people, it may be time for...
View ArticleThe Safest Super Bowl XLVIII Bet: The Best Action Will Be on Twitter
Any attempt to divine a hidden key to Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks is a lot like mapping a route through the host state itself: you could spend hours...
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