Stolen Violin Worth Millions Recovered in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A Stradivarius violin worth millions of dollars, which was stolen from a concert violinist in an armed robbery last week, has been recovered from a suitcase in the...
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Today in Tabs: Secrets and Tabs
Wolf Blitzer, pacing furiously inside of a Red Hook brownstone, slamming doors, muttering "which one is the situation room?"— Margarita Noriega (@margafret) February 6, 2014A new app called Secret...
View ArticleSubway Won't Put Chemical Used in Shoe Soles in Its Bread Anymore
Subway has announced it will phase out a bleaching agent used in its bread in the U.S., a chemical which is also commonly used to make yoga mats, synthetic leather, and shoe soles.Food blogger Vani...
View ArticleU.S. Diplomats' Conversation on Ukraine Posted on YouTube
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A conversation between a State Department official and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine posted on YouTube revealed a frank exchange on U.S. strategy for a political transition in...
View ArticleGoodbye, Again, Jay Leno
Because the show’s title is Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld, its host, recently phoned his old friend Jay Leno and invited him out to do just that. Leno hesitantly accepted, noting...
View ArticlePolitician Destroys His Visa Card Over Sochi Human Rights Abuses
Michael Cashman has destroyed his Visa card in protest of human rights abuses in Russia and its affiliated sponsorship. Now he'll only be paying in cash, man! NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleRussian Winter Games Kick Off With a Glitch, Fairytale Show
(Reuters) - Russia's Winter Games got off to a shaky start on Friday when one of the five Olympic rings failed, but ballet dancers, stirring music and huge mechanical props tracing the host nation's...
View ArticleTurkish Forces Seize Suspected Hijacker on Plane in Istanbul: Media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish special forces seized a passenger who is suspected of making a bomb threat and trying to hijack a plane, demanding to go to the Winter Olympics venue of Sochi, CNN Turk and...
View ArticleTamara Green Talks About Bill Cosby
Dylan Farrow’s accusations that Woody Allen, her adoptive father, molested her when she was seven have been all over the Internet this week, even though the allegations have been public knowledge for...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: The Integrity of Your Tabs, and Everything Inside Them
Among the torrent of Scary/Incompetent Russia Stories that have so quickly surpassed amusing and gone deep into xenophobia territory, NBC News aired a report claiming "if [Sochi visitors] fire up their...
View ArticlePussy Riot’s Stars Tossed Out of Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina’s stateside media tour took a refreshingly doctrinaire twist Thursday when fellow members of the Russian punk group booted them out of the...
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Tin Medals: The Worst of the First Day of the Olympics
India’s three-person contingent marched in the opening ceremony under the Olympic flag as opposed to their country’s flag because the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is suspended from the Olympic...
View ArticleRussian Police Choir's Amazing Daft Punk Cover
On the opening night of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage from Sochi, host Bob Costas engaged in a serious discussion about homosexuality in Russia with David Remnick, managing editor of The New Yorker,...
View ArticleNewsweek Becomes First Magazine to Accept Bitcoin ...Pitches
Spurred by a host of recent converts to the peer-to-peer digital currency, Newsweek has become the first magazine to accept Bitcoin PR pitches. The digital currency’s visibility in popular retailers...
View ArticlePoint and Prey
Last September, California governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 606 into law. Known as the “Halle Berry Paparazzi Law,” the statute, aimed at protecting the privacy of the children of public...
View ArticleQuestions About Water Safety After Massive N. Carolina Coal Ash Spill
Barely four days after the federal government announced they were moving ahead with the first-ever regulations on the disposal of toxic coal ash, news began to surface of a massive spill in North...
View ArticleChina Insurance Official Asked JPMorgan's Dimon for Job 'Favor': NYT
(Reuters) - China's top insurance regulator directly asked JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon to hire a family friend as a "favor", The New York Times reported, citing a confidential email.The...
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Six Hundred Syrians Flee Besieged Old Homs in Aid Convoy
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Six hundred people left the besieged ruins of rebel-held central Homs on Sunday, escaping more than a year of hunger and deprivation caused by one of the most protracted blockades of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina's Moral Mondays Are Back With Massive March
Tens of thousands marched on the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh on Saturday, rekindling the "Moral Monday" progressive protest movement with its largest turnout yet.For much of last year, the...
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Copenhagen Zoo Feeds Giraffe to Lions in Front of Children
Warning: This post contains graphic images.Lions get hungry, and zoos euthanize animals more than visitors might wish to realize. But neither fact has insulated the Copenhagen Zoo from international...
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