Israeli Strike in Syria Kills Senior Hezbollah Figures
An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a commander from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the son of the group's late military leader Imad Moughniyah, sources close to Hezbollah said, in a major blow that...
View ArticleQuora Question: Is the Working Class Getting Benefits from China's Economic...
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleThe Lowdown on the FDA and Weight Loss Devices
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its approval of a new state-of-the-art weight loss device, the Maestro Rechargeable System. The first such product to get the administration’s OK in...
View ArticleTen Reasons Workers Should Be Paid More
Economists have long argued that increases in worker pay can lead to improvements in productivity—indeed, that it can actually be profitable to pay workers higher wages.As Alfred Marshall, the father...
View ArticleIsraeli Elections: How the Left Could Win
Israelis go to the polls on March 17 to elect the 20th Knesset, Israel's parliament, which will then form a new government to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's current one (he hopes to head...
View ArticleTeasers for ‘ISIS TV Channel’ Taken Down Before First Broadcast
Video footage purporting to be from a soon-to-be unveiled 24-hour Islamic State news channel has gathered momentum in jihadi forums and on ISIS social media, prompting speculation the Islamist group...
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Photographs: Martin Luther King Jr.'s America
Warning: this story contains graphic images. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the masses and with his wife Coretta led marches on Washington, and from Selma to Montgomery; he is also remembered for his...
View ArticleTory 'Northern Powerhouse' Claim Questioned After North/South Divide Report
The director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has poured cold water on the Conservative’s campaign to create a ‘Northern powerhouse’ as a new report highlighted a worsening divide between the...
View ArticleChina Goes Polar
TROMSØ, Norway -- People don’t generally think of China as a polar power. But they might think again after listening to the head of China’s national oil company, who came all the way to the Arctic...
View ArticleLandmark Female Genital Mutilation Trial Begins in U.K.
The trial of a British doctor accused of performing female genital mutilation, which began Monday, is the United Kingdom’s first prosecution since the practice was outlawed in 1985.Dr. Dhanuson...
View ArticleHash Oil Linked to Dozens of Home Explosions in Colorado
Hash oil, a form of concentrated THC from cannabis plants that is created using liquid butane, has been linked with dozens of explosions in Colorado, where marijuana use has been legal since 2012....
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Not Just Sea Level Rise: Melting Glaciers Release Vast Amounts of Carbon,...
As the world warms, glaciers around the world are rapidly hemorrhaging ice and threatening catastrophic sea level rise. But melting glaciers also pose another kind of menace: the release of vast...
View ArticleYosemite Climbers Find Themselves On Top of the World
If his hands didn’t still hurt, Kevin Jorgeson might not believe he and fellow climber Tommy Caldwell had made it to the top of the Dawn Wall, Jorgeson wrote on Instagram Sunday.But after nearly three...
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Martin Luther King’s Nightmare
What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of America in 2015 if he’d lived to see his 86th birthday? No doubt he’d be pleased by the legal and political advances of black Americans, crowned by the...
View ArticleMali Declared Ebola-Free By WHO
Mali is officially free of the Ebola virus, government authorities and the World Health Organization announced on Sunday.Forty-two days have passed since the country’s last potential Ebola case tested...
View ArticlePope Francis to Visit NYC, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia This Fall
Pope Francis will visit New York City and Washington, D.C. in addition to Philadelphia during his visit to the United States this fall, Archbishop Bernadito Auza, a member of the organizing committee...
View ArticleSeattle Seahawks Double Down on a Miracle Against Green Bay Packers
If you ever spent time at a roulette table, then you instantly recognized what went down during Sunday's NFC Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. In one seat you...
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Rivers Flow With Ecstasy After Taiwanese Music Festival, And It's Bad News...
People do a lot of drugs at music festivals. Then, people pee them out—and it could be messing with aquatic life.A recent study published inEnvironmental Science & Technology found that during and...
View ArticlePro-Russian Separatists Renew Attack on Eastern Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east on Monday after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground there that Russia...
View ArticlePhotos: Ukraine's Orthodox Christians Celebrate Epiphany With Icy Plunge
Orthodox Christians across Eastern Europe, including conflict-plagued Ukraine, celebrated the feast of the Epiphany on Monday by taking a dip in freezing cold water, regardless of the subzero...
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