After Sony: How to Help Prevent Cyberattacks
A number of cybersecurity bills that would require more information sharing between the U.S. government and private industry have been under consideration in Congress for several years. The intent of...
View ArticleJoe Cocker, Gravel-Toned British Soul Legend, Dies at Age 70
Vocalist and British music legend Joe Cocker has died at age 70, according to a statement from Sony Music released on Monday afternoon. Cocker passed away from an "undisclosed illness," according to...
View ArticleDe Blasio to Protesters: 'Politics and Protest Can Be for Another Day'
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today called on protesters angry about the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown to suspend their protests after two NYPD officers were killed by a crazed gunman on...
View ArticlePresident Obama: Keystone XL Has No ‘Nominal Benefit’ for Americans
After months of expressing cautious skepticism about Keystone XL, President Obama delivered his most explicit criticism yet of the pipeline project at a year-end press conference on Friday, saying that...
View ArticleReport: America’s Prison Population Is Growing Again
The ACLU calls the U.S. the largest jailer in the world, holding roughly 25 percent of the world’s prison population despite the fact that national population represents only 5 percent of the world’s....
View ArticleDo Sanctions Work?
Amid the buzz around new U.S. and EU sanctions being imposed on Russia, sanctions on another country, on the other side of the world, were being gently lifted. In October, following elections, America...
View ArticleAn Eggless Egg You Can Fry
Chris Jones remembers well the meals he made for himself in the earliest days of his cooking career as a poor journeyman apprentice, long before he achieved any fame as a contestant on Top Chef: ramen...
View ArticleArmy Concludes Bowe Bergdahl Investigation
The Army has concluded its investigation and legal review of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Department of Defense announced in a statement today. Bergdahl...
View ArticleNorth Korea's Internet Goes Down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea experienced Internet outages on Monday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said, adding that the reason for the problems was not known."For the past...
View ArticleWorking 9 to 5, Past 9...
Doing one job at a time is about to become as quaint as having one phone in the house. In your new career, you’ll get to have many different jobs every day.We’re seeing the dawn of the era of...
View ArticleU.S. Moves to Block Graphic Photos of Detainee Abuse, Again
“There was never going to be a perfect time to release this report,” President Barack Obama said earlier this month after the Senate Intelligence Committee unleashed its long-awaited “torture report,”...
View ArticleU.N. Council Overrides China to Add North Korea to Agenda
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Members of the U.N. Security Council on Monday voted to override China's objections and formally add North Korea, including allegations of grave human rights abuses, to the...
View ArticleChina Says Reports It Helped Cut Off North Korea's Internet 'Irresponsible'
Reports that China was involved in cutting off North Korea's Internet are "irresponsible", China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks at a daily news...
View ArticleMan Rams Van Into Christmas Market In France
A man ploughed a van into a crowded Christmas market in Nantes in western France on Monday, injuring at least 10 people in the country's third violent attack in as many days.The driver, who authorities...
View ArticleMore Than 17,000 Attend German Anti-Immigrant Rally
More than 17,000 people took part in Germany's largest anti-immigrant rally to date on Monday in the eastern city of Dresden, gathering to sing Christmas carols and listen to speakers complain about...
View ArticleOne Nation Divided by Wealth
Government policy is the wedge dividing the very richest from everyone else in America. The gap between the have-mores and have-nots will narrow and widen now and then as the economy contracts and...
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The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin
They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer...
View ArticleOver Yondr, Where There Are No Phones
Ebola. ISIS. Downed airlines. Ukraine. 2014 threw up some confounding dilemmas. Our “Silver Bullets” series comes to the rescue with seven big solutions to some of the most complex problems the world...
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Hacker Shows Fingerprints Can Be Re-created Using Photographs
Law enforcement and criminals alike have been lifting fingerprints from surfaces (like smartphones and drinking glasses) to either solve crimes or steal identities longer than Law and Order has been on...
View ArticleCould Lightning Have Downed Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501?
On Sunday, CNN speculated lightning may have been partly responsible for the disappearance of AirAsia flight 8501 while en route from Singapore to Surabaya, Indonesia.The commercial aircraft vanished...
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