Obama Ready to Spend Again in New Budget
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday dropped a measure to trim cost-of-living increases in Social Security from an upcoming budget proposal in an election-year move that may insulate fellow...
View ArticleTin Medals: U.S. Women's Hockey Breaks Our Hearts
USA Women’s Hockey: “Goaa---Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggg!” How close to gold, and ending Canada’s 12-year reign Olympic women’s hockey reign, were the American women yesterday? Team USA led 2-0 with just over...
View ArticleBitcoin Alternatives Galore, but What's the Difference?
There isn’t a BuzzFeed quiz to determine which cryptocurrency you are. But at the rate Bitcoin alternatives have been flooding the Internet in recent weeks and months, it can’t be long, can it?The...
View ArticleWhat House of Cards Gets Wrong About Real-Life Washington
House of Cards is addictive. And why not?Kevin Spacey’s menacing mien and Shakespearian asides are irresistible as he portrays a vice president who is as mendacious as Joe Biden is verbose. Robin...
View ArticleMost Memorable Events Happen Before 25, Study Claims
It is all downhill from here. Or, more specifically, it is all a wash of monotony while we wait to die.That’s (sort of) the takeaway of a new study out of the University of New Hampshire, which found...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Tabber's Delight
Can potheads build a company? Ask Zach Schwartz from Rap Genius, Caroline McCarthy, Anil, Biddle and me. http://t.co/bIll7pitv9— Nick Denton (@nicknotned) February 18, 2014Whether you loathe him or...
View ArticleMayor Bill de Blasio Is a Jaywalker, New York Post Reports
The New York Post devoted several paragraphs Friday to a report — as well as grainy “Exclusive” footage — of Mayor Bill de Blasio crossing a street.We’ll summarize: He was jaywalking.More scandalously:...
View ArticleBreak-in Reported at Project on Government Oversight
It’s probably nothing, but the office of a major Washington, DC national security whistleblowers organization was broken into last week.The intruder or intruders left dozens of computers and other...
View ArticleUkraine Parliament Removes President, Who Flees Kiev in 'Coup'
(Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament voted on Saturday to remove President Viktor Yanukovich, who abandoned his Kiev office to protesters and denounced what he described as a coup after a week of fighting...
View ArticleDrug Lord Joaquin 'Shorty' Guzman Arrested in Mexico
(Reuters) - Mexico's most wanted man, drugs kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, was captured early on Saturday with help from U.S. agencies in a major victory for the government in a long, brutal drugs...
View ArticleUkraine: Will Putin Let the Revolution Succeed?
So Kiev’s revolt has become revolution: in a single tumultuous day the embattled President Viktor Yanukovych fled the capital as Parliament voted to impeach him and named their Speaker as interim...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: We Are All Once-In-a-Generation Talents
Alec Baldwin unleashes an "as told to Joe Hagan" rant in NY Mag today, proclaiming that he's done with New York and being famous, and we can only hope he means it. He explains the roots of his trouble...
View ArticleBudget Cuts to Slash U.S. Army to Smallest Since Before World War Two
(Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Monday it would shrink the U.S. Army to pre-World War Two levels, eliminate the popular A-10 aircraft and reduce military benefits in order to meet 2015 spending caps,...
View ArticleWorld's Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Alice Herz-Sommer, Dies in UK
(Reuters) - A 110-year-old woman believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust and who endured the ordeal partly through her passion for music, has died in London, her family said on Sunday.Alice...
View ArticleU.S. to Seek Extradition of Mexican Drug Kingpin Guzman
(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors plan to seek the extradition of Mexico's most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, to face trial in the United States after he was captured in...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Instagramming Ukraine's Revolution
Brendan Hoffman, on assignment for Getty Images, Instagrams his personal experiences of a photojournalist on the ground in Kiev, Ukraine.I arrived in Kiev after midnight last Tuesday, my fourth trip...
View ArticleUkraine's Fugitive President Wanted for Mass Murder
(Reuters) - Ukraine's new authorities issued an arrest warrant on Monday for mass murder against ousted President Viktor Yanukovich, who is on the run after being toppled by bloody street protests in...
View ArticleThe Newsweek Archives: How We Covered the Internment of Japanese-Americans...
Could a George Bernard Shaw play, annotated with invisible ink, have been used by Japanese living in America at the beginning of World War II to send coded messages back to Japan? This was one of the...
View ArticleCovering Alec Baldwin Was Nobody's Favorite Job
It was one day a few years ago that I found myself assigned to a job no reporter wanted - I was on Alec Baldwin watch.Every reporter had to cover celebrities from time to time and on this Thursday...
View ArticleDirector and Comedy Great Harold Ramis Dies at 69
Harold Ramis, the actor, writer, and director perhaps best known for his role in Ghostbusters, died Monday morning at the age of 69, his attorney has confirmed. Ramis died from complications relating...
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