Googling Tom Brady’s Paycheck and Other Pressing Super Bowl Questions
Around the United States, millions of football fans are looking to find out everything from their favorite player’s height to the best Super Bowl snack. Most of them turn to Google, and every January...
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U.S. Develops New 'Soft' Techniques To End Torture
On 16 January 1991, Colonel Steven Kleinman, a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, flew to Saudi Arabia to interrogate an Iraqi combat engineer captured just before the launch of...
View ArticleMoroccan Magazine Dresses Hollande as Hitler, Two Days After Auschwitz...
Moroccan Arab-language newspaper Al-Watan al-An has published images of French President François Hollande retouched to look like Adolf Hitler, sporting a swastika armband with the headline “the French...
View ArticleItalian Mafia Boss Found Hiding in Attic in Rome
One of the heads of the most powerful mafia gang in Italy has been found living in his attic in Rome, nearly three weeks after police first visited his home to seize him. The arrest is part of a larger...
View ArticleBackstreets Boys to Men
It’s 10 minutes before I'm going to Skype with the Backstreet Boys, and my 29-year-old self is anxiously pondering a dilemma my 10-year-old self—a BSB superfan—couldn't possibly have imagined: which...
View ArticleIslamic State Launches Attack on Kirkuk
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants struck at Kurdish forces southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, while bombs in Baghdad and Samarra killed at least 21 people.Islamic State has...
View ArticleMitt Romney Will Not Seek 2016 Nomination
Updated | Mitt Romney announced Friday that he will not seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president. The news first started circulating before a call Romney had scheduled with supporters to...
View ArticleWill New 911 Location Requirements Compromise Privacy?
On July 21, 2014, at around 11 p.m., a woman in San Bernardino, California, called 911 to report that she had been shot. The victim, later identified as 26-year-old Michelle Miers, told dispatchers she...
View ArticleBoko Haram Encircles City of Two Million Ahead of Elections
Islamist militant group Boko Haram are believed to have surrounded the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri and are regrouping for a large-scale offensive before the presidential election on February...
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Normalizing Relations With Cuba: The Unfinished Agenda
On January 22, U.S. and Cuban diplomats concluded the first round of talks to implement President Barack Obama's and President Raúl Castro's decision to normalize bilateral relations. A second round of...
View ArticleGreece Says It Won't Co-Operate With Troika or Seek Aid Extension
The new left-wing government in Athens opened negotiations on its bailout package with European partners on Friday by flatly rejecting the expected extension of the program and the international...
View ArticleLitvinenko’s Murder ‘Part of a Policy of Assassinating Defectors’
The alleged assassination of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko at the hands of Russian intelligence is part of a larger policy brought forward by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “liquidating”...
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Is This the Year the NFL Bubble Bursts? And Other Crucial Questions About...
How big?How big can the NFL grow? How many? How much? How large? How far? How often? How many?Last year, Super Bowl XLIX, a game that was basically over after the Denver Broncos’ first snap, drew 112.2...
View ArticlePhotos: Despite Kurdish Victory Over ISIS, Kobani Remains in Rubble
After four months of battle between ISIS and Kurdish fighters, the Kurds finally regained control of the town of Kobani in northern Syria. But the victory is bittersweet, as much of the town was...
View ArticleHow Iran Is Coping With Sagging Oil Prices
Matthew M. Reed considers how the collapse in the oil price is affecting Iran—and its defense of its nuclear program.What impact has the fall in global oil prices had on Iran?The oil price collapse...
View ArticleLack of Co-ordination Leaves EU ‘Vulnerable’ to Jihadists Posing as Refugees
A lack of effective multilateral coordination between European Union member states is leaving the bloc open to infiltration by terrorists, according to experts, as the bloc’s border forces are...
View ArticleBiopic of Prophet Muhammad Divides Sunni and Shia Muslims
Amid global controversy over depictions of Muhammad, a multimillion-dollar biopic of the Prophet’s life is causing further controversy in the Muslim world. The Iranian film, premiering on Sunday, will...
View ArticleIs a Strong Dollar Good for Americans?
The “strong dollar” has been a mantra for the United States for decades. Recently, as the euro has fallen to an 11-year low against the dollar, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has once again been paying...
View ArticleDonetsk People's Republic Has ‘Full Support of Texas’, Says Pro-Russian Rebel
The self-proclaimed foreign minister for the pro-Russian separatist group the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), which is currently battling Kiev’s forces in eastern Ukraine, has announced plans to host...
View ArticleGay Dating App Scruff Puts 48-Foot Billboard Near Super Bowl Stadium, Sees...
As football fans make the drive to Arizona’s University of Phoenix Stadium for the Super Bowl, they will see two 48- by 14-foot digital billboards featuring a couple of buff men in a locker room,...
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