When Newsweek Reported on Shirley Temple Black
Shirley Temple Black, who died Monday at the age of 85, was just a little bit older than Newsweek. Both were children of the Great Depression: Temple was born in 1928, and Newsweek was founded five...
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Storm, Bringing Deadly Ice and Snow, Slams U.S. Southeast
(Reuters) - A deadly winter storm brought heavy snow, freezing rain and a possibly historic accumulation of ice to the southeastern United States on Wednesday, causing hundreds of thousands of power...
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Opposition Plan for Post-War Syria Ignores Assad
(Reuters) - The Syrian opposition called on Wednesday for a transitional governing body to oversee a U.N.-monitored ceasefire across Syria and expel foreign fighters, in a paper that avoided any...
View ArticleState Department: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Only Create 35 Permanent Jobs
When the State Department released their report on the Keystone XL pipeline last month, news media focused on the report’s conclusion that the pipeline would not significantly worsen carbon pollution....
View ArticleWitness Says He Heard Marcus Smart Tell His Coach He Was Called a Slur
“Coach, he called me a nigger!”John Holcomb heard Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart say those words last Saturday night. Holcomb heard Smart say that just moments after his now infamous contretemps...
View ArticleAre Syrian Barrel Bombs Really Worse Than Normal Weaponry?
More than a dozen boys were killed at a mosque bombing in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo last week. Days earlier, a barrel bomb blast took out seven people in the city’s Ansari quarter. All in all,...
View ArticleFormer New Orleans Mayor Guilty of Graft in Katrina Recovery
(Reuters) - A federal jury on Wednesday found former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin guilty of accepting bribes and trading on the public trust during the critical years of rebuilding after Hurricane...
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Today in Tabs: Heironymus Tab
Barbiehas a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover, which certainly is the reductio ad absurdum of something. Instead of that nonsense, read what the 1981 Lego ad girl has to say now that she's all grown up...
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Today in Tabs: Tabbing Westward
⊂_ヽ ＼＼ Λ＿Λ ＼( ˇωˇ) / ⌒ / へ＼ / / ＼＼ ﾚ ノ ヽ_つ / / GOT DAT HEIDI MOORE BLOCK ( (ヽ | |、 | 丿 ＼ | | ) / ノ ) Lﾉ— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) February 11, 2014We lead off today with a...
View ArticleDeadly Winter Storm Pounds East Coast
(Reuters) - A deadly and intensifying winter storm packing heavy snow, sleet and rain pelted a huge swath of the U.S. East Coast on Thursday, grounding flights and shuttering schools and government...
View ArticleComcast Takeover of Time Warner Cable to Reshape U.S. Pay TV
(Reuters) - Comcast Corp's proposed $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc would combine the country's top two cable providers into a colossus that could reshape the U.S. pay TV and broadband...
View ArticleTin Medals: The Lugers Who at Least Showed Up
The Austrian pair of Peter Penz and Georg Fischler finish 19th, or last, in the two-man luge. Penz and Fischler’s time of 54.252 is an eternal 4.692 seconds off the pace of the gold medalist pair from...
View ArticleSnow Blankets NYC and Washington, Snarling Commutes
New York City woke up to yet another winter storm Thursday. The snow came down in thick flakes, blanketing cars and sidewalks amid a 7-degree chill. Eleven inches of snow fell in Central Park this...
View ArticleHospitals Scrambled to Deal With Chemically Contaminated Water in West Virginia
The full impact of the Freedom Industries chemical spill in West Virginia, which contaminated the drinking water of some 300,000 residents, may not be tallied for years. But a look at area hospitals...
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Donald Trump Will Run for Governor of New York if You Ask Nicely and Often
For two hours on the ballroom level of Manhattan’s lavish Grand Hyatt last night, Donald Trump was not a Twitter punchline or a capitalist supervillain. He was the future of the Republican Party in New...
View ArticleAl Roker Blasts NY's Bill de Blasio, Calls Him a One-Term Mayor Over Open...
Al Roker is pissed off.The “Today” show weather man is in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, but the distance didn’t keep him from lambasting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his decision not to...
View ArticleWhat if Hillary Clinton Doesn't Run for President in 2016?
What if Hillary Clinton decides not to run? But surely she will? Probably. But not certainly. In 2013, eight new super PACs incorporated the former secretary of state's name in their names, including...
View ArticleDale Hansen Makes a Perfect Case for Leaving Gay Football Player Michael Sam...
Last Monday Dale Hansen shattered one stereotype while admonishing those who cling to another. Hansen, 65, the sports director at WFAA, the Dallas affiliate for ABC, delivered a two-minute on-air...
View ArticleFacebook Will Now Let You Choose From ‘Custom Gender’ Options
After ten years and one week of limiting profiles to “male” and “female,” Facebook has inched away from the gender binary. The company announced Thursday that it will let users choose from “custom...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Tab-Warner Cable and Facebook's Evil Yacht
Oh no time warner might suck now— Hopsie (@elongreen) February 13, 2014News emerged last night that Comcast is making an offer to buy Time-Warner Cable for $44 billion. This seems upsetting, but it's...
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