Newsweek's First Issue Debuted Today in 1933
A foreclosure crisis so bad that Midwestern farmers hang nooses, meant to threaten foreclosure agents, near where property auctions would be held. An outgoing president, Herbert Hoover, calls for...
View ArticleTrump Cans Aide Over Unflattering BuzzFeed Profile
BuzzFeed political reporter McKay Coppins spent 36 hours schlepping around New Hampshire — and then Palm Beach — with Donald Trump for a story that would expose the billionaire’s hot bluff of a...
View ArticleVideo: Jimmy Fallon Brings the Tonight Show Back to New York — He'll Get the...
“Welcome to ‘The Tonight Show.’ I’m Jimmy Fallon and I’ll be your host, for now.”With those words the next era of late-night television’s most venerable franchise was launched at the stroke of...
View ArticlePussy Riot Members Nadezhda 'Nadya' Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina...
Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two members of the punk protest collective Pussy Riot who recently traveled to New York, said they were arrested Tuesday in Sochi, about 30...
View ArticleVideo: Navy Rolls Out Laser Cannon; Rail Gun Coming Soon
The U.S. Navy is preparing to equip the USS Ponce with a laser cannon, which can cheaply disable drones and speedboats. NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Is This Tabs That I'm Feeling
I was on vacation yesterday, so Tabs today is honestly kind of a Since Last Friday in Tabs...It's no secret that I've had my differences with the Buzzfeed politics section, but McKay Coppins's...
View ArticleMiami Artist Charged with Smashing $1 Million Ai Weiwei Museum Vase
(Reuters) - Miami police have arrested a local artist who they say destroyed a $1 million vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to protest that the city's newly opened museum is only displaying...
View ArticleFour Killed in Thai Clashes; PM to Face Charges over Rice Scheme
(Reuters) - Gun battles erupted between Thai police and anti-government protesters in Bangkok on Tuesday and four people were killed and dozens wounded as authorities made their most determined effort...
View ArticleUkraine Police Charge Protesters After Nation's Bloodiest Day
(Reuters) - Ukrainian riot police charged protesters occupying a central Kiev square early on Wednesday after the bloodiest day since the former Soviet republic, caught in a geopolitical struggle...
View ArticleDeaths Reported as Police Move Against Months-Old Ukraine Protest
[View the story "Live Updates on the Ukraine" on Storify]NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleDevo Profile From Newsweek's Archive in Honor of Bob Casale's Death
Founding Devo guitarist Bob Casale died suddenly on February 17th of heart failure at age 61, reports Rolling Stone. Here’s our Devo profile from the October 30, 1978 edition of Newsweek: "Devo’s...
View ArticleFirst U.S. Bitcoin ATMs to Open Soon in Seattle, Austin
(Reuters) - Robocoin said on Tuesday that later this month it will install the first automated teller machines in the United States that let users buy and sell bitcoin, the latest step into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
West Readies Ukraine Sanctions, Yanukovich Slams Coup Bid
(Reuters) - Western powers threatened sanctions on Wednesday over the death of 26 people in the worst violence since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, pressuring President Viktor Yanukovich...
View ArticleLive Updates: President Yanukovych Denounces "Coup Bid" as Demonstrators Hold...
[View the story "Live Updates on the Ukraine Protest, Wednesday" on Storify]NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleChevron Gives Residents Near Fracking Explosion Free Pizza
After a Chevron hydraulic fracturing well exploded in rural Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania, last Tuesday, and burned for four days straight, the energy company knew just the way to soothe nearby...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ukraine: Heading for Civil War
On Tuesday night tanks burned in the streets of Kiev, government buildings went up in flames and over two dozen people – including nine policemen -- lay dead. In the West of Ukraine rebels stormed and...
View Article'Glassholes' Look Out: Google Releases an Etiquette Guide
The company made a wearables-etiquette declaration following widespread backlash NoYesYesWeb
View ArticleU.S. Minimum Wage Hike Would Kill Jobs but Alleviate Poverty: CBO
(Reuters) - Raising the U.S. minimum wage would lead to the loss of about half a million jobs by late 2016 but lift almost a million Americans out of poverty, the Congressional Budget Office forecast...
View ArticleElderly Nun Sentenced to Nearly Three Years for Tennessee Nuclear Break-In
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced an 84-year-old nun, Sister Megan Rice, on Tuesday to 35 months in prison for breaking into a Tennessee military facility used to store enriched uranium for nuclear...
View ArticleVideo Shows Second Pipe Leaking Arsenic From North Carolina Coal Ash Site,...
After an aging stormwater pipe collapsed beneath a North Carolina coal ash pond earlier this month, spewing approximately 39,000 tons of toxic coal ash into the Dan River, state officials have...
View Article