Today in Tabs: Hot Pockalypse Now
Hot Pockalypse Now RT @rustyk5 I have, like, a whole Hot Pockets themed Apocalypse Now thing going on in my head right now— Vijith Assar (@vijithassar) February 19, 2014On Feb 14th, dystopian-future...
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Venezuela Unrest Kills Fifth Person, Lopez Faces Court
(Reuters) - A student demonstrator died of a bullet wound on Wednesday in the fifth fatality from Venezuela's political unrest, as imprisoned protest leader Leopoldo Lopez urged supporters to keep...
View ArticleWest Virginians Still Being Billed for Poisoned Water
More than a month after the Freedom Industries chemical spill in the Kanawha River Valley contaminated the water of 300,000 residents, many still refuse to use their taps. However, a bill provided to...
View ArticleYanukovich Agrees 'Truce' with Ukraine Opposition, Start to Negotiations
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said on Wednesday he had agreed a "truce" with opposition leaders, after street violence in which at least 26 people were killed, and a start to...
View ArticleFacebook to Buy WhatsApp for $16 billion
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock, as the world's largest social network looks for ways to boost its popularity,...
View ArticleEU Seeks Peace as Ukraine Death Toll Hits 75
(Reuters) - European Union ministers sought to broker a political settlement in Ukraine after gun battles between police and anti-government protesters brought the death toll to 75 in two days of the...
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Will Putin Send in the Tanks?
“In the words of the popular proverb, Moscow was the heart of Russia; St Petersburg, its head. But Kiev, its mother…”James H. Billington, The Icon and the AxeJust hours after a truce had been...
View ArticleLive Updates: The Death Toll in Ukraine Violence Soars
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View ArticleMartin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Medal, Bible Placed in Care of Court
(Reuters) - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize medal and personal Bible must be moved to a court-controlled safety deposit box, a judge ruled on Wednesday as the late civil rights leader's...
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Iulia Lipnitskaya's Fall Hurt, but She Has a Bright Future and the Russian...
Elena Meyers and Lauryn Williams: The first half of their fourth and final bobsled run went about as smoothly as the trailer for “Need For Speed.” All those caroms cost them a gold medal by .10 of a...
View ArticleBlackphone Aims for Privacy on a Smartphone
Last June’s revelations that the NSA collects data from phone calls, texts and emails of people all over the world sparked a global debate over privacy in the digital age, and pushed many to wonder if...
View ArticleThe East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station Is a Hurdle in de Blasio's 'Tale...
It’s a tale of two terrible choices.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who rose to power on a populist “tale of two cities” platform that promised to lessen the widening divide between Gotham’s rich...
View ArticleNew Highly Radioactive Leak at Japan's Fukushima Plant
(Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that 100 metric tons of highly contaminated water had leaked out of a tank, the worst incident since last August, when a...
View ArticleUkraine Olympic Team Members Leave Sochi in Support of Protesters
(Reuters) - Two members of Ukraine's Olympics team decided on Thursday to pull out of the Sochi Winter Games in support of demonstrators back home after widespread anti-government protests left dozens...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: WhatsTab
I'm sure you've all heard by now that Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock. Let's just start by putting some error bars on this thing: the dumbest tab I have seen about it is...
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The Day Steve McQueen Met His New Nazi Neighbor, Keith Moon
As he came off the road with The Who and moved on up to his home in Trancas, near Malibu, California, Keith Moon really, truly thought he was going to finally be content. In particular he foresaw a...
View ArticleMumps Outbreak at Fordham University Hits at Least 13
Mumps, the viral disease your parents probably suffered through as children before vaccines became ubiquitous in the 1970s, has made a surprise appearance at New York’s Fordham University, where it is...
View ArticleUkraine Peace Deal Signed, Opens Way for Early Election
(Reuters) - Ukraine's opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace pact with President Viktor Yanukovich on Friday, winning a raft of concessions in a delicate deal to end violence that killed at...
View ArticleArizona Law Allowing Businesses to Refuse Service for Religious Reasons Heads...
(Reuters) - Arizona lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to customers when such work would violate their religious beliefs, in a move...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Spill of Radioactive Water From Fukushima
The Fukushima nuclear plant is a relentless disaster. Another plume of radioactive water — the biggest in the last six months — has escaped from the plant, its operator Tepco announced Thursday. The...
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