Last International Flights to Libya End
Turkish Airlines has stopped all flights to Libya, becoming the last international air carrier to suspend air travel to the country, where the security situation is rapidly deteriorating.On Tuesday,...
View ArticleObama Will Veto Senate's Pro-Keystone XL Bill
The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that President Obama plans to veto a newly introduced pro-Keystone XL bill if it passes the Senate, the Associated Press reports.Senators John Hoeven,...
View ArticleCuba Releases Some of the 53 'Political' Prisoners, U.S. Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuba has freed some of 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners as agreed under last month's U.S.-Cuban rapprochement and Washington wants to see the rest...
View ArticleSpike in ‘Crime Tourism’ Sparks EU Migration Debate in Denmark
The number of criminal charges brought against ‘tourists’ in Denmark has increased by nearly 50% in just five years according to crime statistics obtained from Danish police by Danish newspaper...
View ArticleMeet Mia Khalifa, the Lebanese Porn Star Who Sparked a National Controversy
By most metrics, 21-year-old Mia Khalifa (not her real name) is doing pretty well for herself. She's educated, has a job that pays well and is successful in her field.She's a daughter anyone could be...
View Article1,200 Jury Candidates for Trial of Accused ‘Boston Bomber’ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
More than 1,200 candidates will file into U.S. District Court in Boston over the next six weeks, as jury selection begins for the trial of accused marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.The case has one of...
View ArticleTwo Numbers: Sun, Sea and Stitches
If you’re thinking of a trip to India, you may imagine the majesty of the Taj Mahal, the thrill of an elephant ride or a chance to eat exotic curries. What you’re probably not imagining is checking...
View ArticleConsumer Electronics Show: A Byte-Size Preview
The best way to experience the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is to attend the scaled-down, Reader’s Digest version the night before, where hosted libations and deadly finger food compete with...
View Article‘Father of Viagra,’ Simon Campbell, Becomes a Knight
Dr. Simon Campbell, one of the latest Britons to be knighted, had a curious rise to prominence. He's the "father" of Viagra, the popular drug for erectile dysfunction.Campbell spent 26 years at Pfizer,...
View ArticleDid Liberals Put Black America Behind Bars?
The United States is the undisputed world champion of incarceration. According to the latest accounting by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, close to 2.3 million adults are held in federal and...
View ArticleDespite GOP Revolt, Boehner Remains House Speaker
Conservatives still simmering over John Boehner’s leadership—from his inability to stop health care reform to his willingness to compromise on the budget—jammed phone lines in Washington on Tuesday in...
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Apple Patents Bending Phone That Isn’t the iPhone 6
Apple was granted 28 patents on Tuesday, among them a phone that is supposed to bend.After the notorious #Bendgate situation of 2014 in which Apple lovers found that when put in their pockets, the...
View ArticleCanada: Keystone XL Worth Approving
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government, reacting to a White House threat to veto Keystone XL pipeline legislation, repeated on Tuesday its call for the United States to approve the contentious...
View ArticleDon't Blame “Rhetoric” for the Deaths of Officers Liu and Ramos
On December 20, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley took a bus to New York and killed two police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. Since then, opponents of the burgeoning movement against police brutality...
View ArticleNew York City Suspends Uber Bases Over Trip Records
Following a heated debate about trip-record data between New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) and Uber this fall at a public meeting and a hearing, the New York Office of Administrative...
View ArticleCVS to Exclusively Distribute Gilead Sciences’s $1,000-Per-Pill Hepatitis C...
CVS Health, the nationwide drugstore chain, has cut a deal with pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences for exclusive distribution of Sovaldi and Harvoni, two potent hepatitis C medications. While any...
View ArticlePlanetary Hunt Yields Four New ‘Earth Twins’
Astronomers have gotten one step closer to answering the question that occupies scientists and sci-fi enthusiasts alike: “Are we alone in the universe?” A team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...
View ArticleU.S. Says There's More Proof Syria Used Chemical Arms
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The latest report on Syria by the global chemical weapons watchdog offers further evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly attacked its own citizens with poison gas,...
View ArticleAC/DC and Steely Dan Are Playing Coachella in 2015
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival revealed its 2015 lineup on Tuesday, and it’s looking like a dad-friendly outing: Both AC/DC and Jack White are headlining, and soft-rock-fusion kings...
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Mercedes Unveils Self-Driving, Pollution-Free Car At CES 2015
Just outside the Cosmopolitan hotel, where beads of shimmering glass stretch for several stories over blackjack gamblers and women nonchalantly dance bar-top, hundreds of tourists and journalists...
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