Syria Grants Free Internet Access, So It Can Snoop
In the three years since bloody civil war erupted in Syria, citizens and government officials have been battling for control of the country’s Internet. Using everything from cyber attacks to digital...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Promises to Fix Obamacare
Before Obamacare, there was Hillarycare. If former secretary of state Hillary Clinton decides to run for president in 2016, Republicans are certain to dredge up her failed attempt to pass health care...
View ArticleA Worldwide Protest Condemns Egypt's Arrest of Al Jazeera Journalists
Prominent journalists, politicians and free speech advocates around the world are appealing for the immediate release of three British Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt since December on...
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Will Reid’s Koch Bashing Work?
Around the Senate, people are used to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid being indignant and occasionally intemperate. His most notorious gaffe came in 2010 when Reid remarked that the then Senator from...
View ArticleArmed Men Seize Two Airports in Ukraine's Crimea, Deposed President...
(Reuters) - Armed men took control of two airports in the Crimea region on Friday in what the new Ukrainian leadership described as an invasion by Moscow's forces, and ousted President Viktor...
View ArticleCreationist Ken Ham Raised Enough Money After Bill Nye Debate to Build Noah's...
Creation Museum founder Ken Ham says he has raised enough money to begin building a 510-foot wooden “replica” of Noah’s Ark, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Ham’s evolution debate with Bill Nye...
View ArticleMt. Gox Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Hackers for Losses
(Reuters) - Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due...
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Putin Uses the Ukrainian Revolution to Try to Reinstate Crimea
In the summer of 1994, just three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Jack F. Matlock, who as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991 had been present at its destruction, flew...
View ArticleIn Another Blow to Free Labor, Columbia University Halts Academic Credit for...
In an attempt to pressure employers to pay interns in accordance with Labor Department guidelines, Columbia University will no longer offer its undergraduates registration credits in exchange for...
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Coal Mine Fire Still Burning After Weeks Looks Like Mordor, Fills Australian...
A coal seam fire still raging after three weeks has turned a small town in southern Australia into a smoke- and ash-filled hazard. Elderly people, young children and pregnant women were advised to...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: #Tabcore
bears tell enchanting stories, and gain power. international system begins to tilt towards bears. many countries look to bears as an example— direlog (@direlog) February 28, 2014Today in Strange Food:...
View ArticleU.S. Appeals Court Sides with California School in T-Shirt Dispute
(Reuters) - San Francisco Bay-area high school officials did not violate the civil rights of five students by demanding they remove T-shirts bearing images of the U.S. flag at an event celebrating the...
View ArticleNewsweek Names a Mars Crater
It’s good to own land; it’s even better to get to name it after yourself. What kid doesn’t imagine her toy cars running through the streets of the Kingdom of Sophia or Emilysville? Then reality sets...
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Obama Promises 'Costs' for Russian Military Incursion in Crimea
After the ousting of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and the creation of an interim government made up of opposition leaders, the volatile situation in Ukraine has now come to a head in...
View ArticleThe 'Godfather' of the Helvetica Font Dies
Mike Parker, the type designer widely hailed as the “Godfather” of Helvetica, died earlier this week at the age of 84.His name is obscure, but his handiwork is near ubiquitous. Artsier than Times New...
View ArticleBridgegate Bombshell: 'I Feel Bad About the Kids... I Guess'
Around 9 a.m. on September 9 2013, a police officer tried to help an ambulance driver avoid a massive, citywide traffic jam. "Do you have a medical unit dispatched?" the officer asked. "The GW Bridge...
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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Suffer From Mental Illness Each Year
Every year, about 42.5 million American adults (or 18.2 percent of the total adult population in the United States) suffers from some mental illness, enduring conditions such as depression, bipolar...
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Russia's Putin Claims Authority to Invade Ukraine
Putin's open assertion of the right to send troops to a country of 46 million people on the ramparts of central Europe creates the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold...
View ArticleUN Split Over Russian Occupation of Crimea
After meeting twice on Friday and Saturday, the Security Council failed to agree on measures to address the Ukraine crisis, even as Western diplomats managed to score a small procedural victory by...
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Ukraine Mobilizes After Putin's 'Declaration of War'
(Reuters) - Ukraine mobilized for war on Sunday and Washington threatened to isolate Russia economically, after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade his neighbor in Moscow's...
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