The City of Fallen Angels and 'Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America'
Here are some names: Ronnie Lee Graham Jr., Darrell Orlando Daniels, Stephen Antwoine Harris, Keith Allen Cox, Richard Joseph Miller, Henry Lee Bayardo. They were all black men shot and killed in Los...
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Bristlr Is a Dating Service for Bearded Men and People Who Love Them
Kat Kissick has preferred bearded men for as long as she can remember. “It’s a personality indicator that maybe this man likes to have fun, maybe they’re creative, maybe they’re just trying to express...
View ArticleFamily of U.S. Hostage of Islamic State Says Hopeful She is Still Alive
The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State since August 2013 said on Friday they are hopeful she is still alive, after the group said she was killed in a bombing by...
View ArticleDoes the Government Require Your Hotel to Spy on You?
If you’re a privacy-conscious traveler, you may have wondered from time to time why hotels ask for ID when you check in, or why they ask you to give them the make and model of your car and other...
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What the Rosa Parks Archive Reveals About a Civil Rights Hero
An extensive archive of photographs and documents focusing on the life of Rosa Parks was opened to researchers and members of the public on Wednesday, what would have been the civil rights activist’s...
View Article‘Serial’ Subject Adnan Syed Granted Appeal of Murder Conviction
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has agreed to allow an appeal by the subject of the explosively popular podcast Serial, Adnan Syed, who was convicted in the 1999 strangling death of his...
View ArticleFamily of Kidnapped American Journalist Austin Tice Launches Campaign for His...
On August 13, 2012, freelance journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria as he was preparing to travel from Daraya to Beirut, Lebanon. In September of that year, a grainy YouTube video surfaced and...
View ArticleNBC News Anchor Temporarily Off Air
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NBC News anchor Brian Williams said on Saturday he will take himself off the evening newscast for several days as the network probes misstatements related to his experience...
View ArticleNigeria Postpones Election Until Late March
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission has said it is postponing the Feb. 14 presidential election until March 28 due to security concerns, caving in to pressure from the ruling People's...
View ArticleDialing In to STDs
A team of researchers at Columbia University’s engineering and applied sciences school has created a new device (a “dongle,” as they call it) that attaches to your smartphone and can detect whether...
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HBO's Crime Drama 'The Jinx' Succeeds Where Others Fail
“He was a creepy little bastard,” Cody Cazalas says, his thick Southern accent stressing that last word. Cazalas is a Galveston, Texas, police detective, and over a decade ago he investigated Robert...
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U.S. Military Spending: A Lot? Or a Lot More?
In 2015, U.S. defense spending will be about $600 billion, or about 3.24 percent of GDP. The former figure would strike many Americans as sufficient, and a few would find it excessive.Robert Gates once...
View ArticleFormer UNC Basketball Coach Dean Smith Dies
(Reuters) - Dean Smith, who coached the U.S. basketball team to an Olympic gold in 1976, won two national titles and helped develop NBA great Michael Jordan, has died at the age of 83.Teams coached by...
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Photos: Looking for Love, Between Assignments
Some people spend their lives searching for love. Photographer Julia Xanthos manages to catch glimpses of it between newspaper assignments.Throughout New York City’s five boroughs, whether on train...
View ArticleCyberattacks Are a Nuisance, Not Terrorism
Cyberterrorism, theoretically, isn’t supposed to exist. Terrorism, after all, is defined as the use of attacks to create visceral fear. Yet, almost all of what cyberattacks have done so far has been to...
View ArticleE.U. Official Sees No Rift With U.S. Over Arming Ukraine
MUNICH (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Sunday she did not expect any transatlantic rift with Washington over Ukraine if the United States went ahead with proposals to...
View ArticlePhotos: Rieke the Orphaned Orangutan Gets New Caretaker
Rieke is a baby orangutan that was orphaned by her mother at the Berlin Zoo. The mother, Djasinga, refused to care for her baby even though experts at the zoo tried to bring them together several...
View ArticleThe Case Against Artificial Intelligence
If Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are right, sooner or later we’re going to face the Rosa Parks of intelligent machines. Maybe it will be a self-driving car. Some guy will get in and order...
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Best New Artist: The One Grammy You Might Not Want to Win
In 1977, a fleetingly popular soft-rock outfit called Starland Vocal Band took home a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. You won’t likely recognize the name, because why should you? The group’s success...
View ArticlePowerful People’s Inspiration? Studies Indicate It’s Mostly Themselves
If you ask most people who or what inspires them, they are typically able to rattle off a handful of luminaries, friends or family members they look up to. But powerful people are an anomaly, according...
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