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Rain Coats on Oscar's Red Carpet
(Reuters) - In true Hollywood fashion, the Academy Awards on Sunday promised a cliffhanger finale to the tight race for best picture Oscar between favorites "12 Years a Slave" and "Gravity" and a big...
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Will Putin's Gambit Backfire?
Vladimir Putin’s Crimean gambit could prove to be the most fatal mistake of his political career -- a mistake that may well cost Russia the peace, economic and political stability that stand as chief...
View ArticleNewsweek Live-Drawing of the Oscars
Welcome to Newsweek's Oscars live blog! Our social team hung out with the Li.st, live-tweeting and drawing the 86th Academy Awards. We enlisted artist Roxanne Palmer, who you'll recognize from our...
View ArticleWives, Neighbors Hold War of Words in Armed Crimea Standoff
(Reuters) - If there is a frontline in Russia's so far bloodless military operation in Ukraine, it is here at a run-down base near a village on a highway through the mountains of Crimea, where...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: TabFog
Did you know that there are arguments on the internet!? Since I am swaddled in furs and settled to the right of a window sheeted in cold rain I will tell you about them.Could Crimea become Putin's...
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From Winners to Wardrobes, Taking in Hollywood's Big Night
Matthew McConaughey just won an Oscar. Am I alive? Is this real? Yes it’s real, and if his performance in Dallas Buyer’s Club didn’t convince me he deserved it, his acceptance speech sure did. I...
View ArticleVideo: Humans Could Have Been Stuck on Bering Strait for 10,000 Years
A new article suggests ancestors of Native Americans spent 10,000 years on the Bering Strait land bridge before arriving in the Americas. NoYesYesWeb
View ArticlePistorius Trial Witness: 'Bloodcurdling Screams' Then Shots
(Reuters) - The first witness at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial told the court on Monday she heard "bloodcurdling screams" from a woman followed by shots, a dramatic opening to a case that could see one...
View ArticleHow Obamacare May Lower the Prison Population More Than Any Reform in a...
While many have focused on the individual mandate, and the online (and glitchy) insurance exchanges, one of the most potentially impactful elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleRussian Markets Plunge as Putin Tightens Crimea Grip
(Reuters) - Russia paid a heavy financial price on Monday for its military intervention in neighboring Ukraine, with stocks, bonds and the rouble plunging as President Vladimir Putin's forces tightened...
View ArticleVideo: From Brick to Smartphone in 40 Years
Watch the original video, courtesy of Fueled.com right here: http://vimeo.com/79946642 -- Starting with the DynaTAC in 1974 and ending with a side-by-side comparison between the iPhone 5s and the...
View ArticleOn Putin's RT Network, the EU, U.S., and Fascist Thugs Are to Blame for the...
If you turn on RT, the Moscow-run cable network, it often has the familiar-yet-different feel of a foreign network like the BBC or Al Jazeera America or France 24. It’s familiar because they have...
View ArticleBPA Levels Higher in Men With Prostate Cancer: Study
Bisphenol-A is everywhere. If you are reading this in the United States, there is a greater-than-90 percent chance you have BPA in your system, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The...
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Khrushchev Would Be Appalled
My great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, would be turning in his grave.Khrushchev, the Soviet leader from 1953-1964, is being blamed for creating the current Crimea mess. Russia took over the Crimea...
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Venezuela’s Maduro Looks to Hardline Chavez Tactics as Protests Spread
Venezuela’s street protests have shaken up President Nicolas Maduro enough that he has turned to the Hugo Chavez playbook, pulling from it such tricks as launching paranoid salvos against the Yanks and...
View ArticleAt White House, Israel's Netanyahu Pushes Back Against Obama Diplomacy
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told Barack Obama on Monday that he would never compromise on Israel's security even as the U.S. president sought to reassure him on Iran nuclear...
View ArticleU.S. Court Rejects BP Appeal Over Gulf Spill Losses
(Reuters) - A divided U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected BP Plc's bid to block businesses from recovering money over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, even if they could not trace their economic...
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Jason Collins Steps Out in Brooklyn
By the time Jason Collins checked in for the Nets’ game against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night, time was running out and the men from Brooklyn were clearly going to win. Collins tried one shot, a...
View ArticleObama Budget Sets Up Election-Year Clash With Republicans
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed new tax credits and job-training programs for U.S. workers on Tuesday in a 2015 budget that drew instant condemnation from Republicans, who dismissed the...
View ArticleVideo: A 30,000-Year-Old Siberian Virus Has Come Back to Life
A 30,000-year-old giant virus was found frozen in Siberian permafrost. Once thawed, it again became infectious, but it's not dangerous to humans. NoYesYesWeb
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