One Year After Spill That Contaminated Drinking Water, West Virginia...
Around this time last year, 300,000 residents in Charleston, West Virginia couldn’t drink or bathe in their tap water. Last January, roughly 10,000 gallons of a largely unknown chemical called...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage: Flouting the Supreme Court
Even as advocates for marriage equality predict victory at the U.S. Supreme Court this spring, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is instructing state judges to defy a federal court’s order to grant...
View ArticleNorth Korea Touts Dark Satellite Photo in Editorial
An editorial in North Korea’s primary newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, recently tried to cast a positive light on a dark satellite image, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.In February last year,...
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Family of ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Release Letter She Sent From Captivity
Today, the family of Islamic State (ISIS) hostage Kayla Mueller confirmed her death. Mueller's family did not publicly comment on the details of the confirmation. National Security Council Spokeswoman...
View ArticleNBC Suspends Brian Williams for 6 Months
NBC has decided to suspend its star anchor, Brian Williams, without pay for a period of 6 months, the network says. Williams's job has been in question after reports that he exaggerated a story from...
View ArticleCutups at the 'Cut-Outs': Up All Night With Matisse
Here’s a pop quiz: What kind of sane person forgoes a sweet hibernation and willingly ventures to Midtown Manhattan—the heart of the American nightmare—after 2 o’clock in the morning on a frigid...
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The Other Train Accident Victims: Rail Workers Who Face PTSD and Depression
In December 2013, after a Metro-North train jumped the rails in the Bronx, killing four and injuring 75, a union leader described the train engineer as “totally traumatized.” The New York accident made...
View ArticleNYPD Officer Who Killed Akai Gurley in Brooklyn Indicted: Report
Peter Liang, the New York rookie police officer who fatally shot 28-year-old Akai Gurley in the stairwell of a public housing building in Brooklyn in November last year, has been indicted, The...
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A Working Malaria Vaccine That Can't Get Money
Tucked away in a few rooms within the Alexandria Life Science and Translational Research Center in Rockville, Maryland, is a 48-member biotechnology company pursuing a singular obsession to eradicate...
View ArticleIndia's Modi Slapped by Election Rout in Delhi
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suffered the biggest defeat of his political career with his Bharatiya Janata Party being routed in elections for the Delhi state-level assembly. The Aam Aadmi...
View ArticleAustralia Thwarts Imminent ISIS-Related Attack, Police Say
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian counterterrorism police said on Wednesday they had thwarted an imminent attack linked to the Islamic State militant group after arresting two men in Sydney on...
View ArticleJon Stewart to Leave 'The Daily Show'
(Reuters) - Comedian Jon Stewart will leave as the host of Comedy Central’s satirical newscast “The Daily Show” later this year, the Viacom Inc-owned (VIAB.O) network said on Tuesday.”Through his...
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Meet the Swedish Woman Taking on Putin's Navy
Should you happen to find yourself in the Swedish archipelago and spot something unusual in the water, it may be wise to make yourself known to Ewa Skoog Haslum. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of...
View ArticleSNP to Demand End to Austerity as Price for Westminster Coalition
The Scottish National Party would require a future British government to end austerity and allow public spending to rise in return for its support following a general election on May 7, the party...
View ArticleChina Say They 'Know Nothing' About Aid Offer for Greece
China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it had no knowledge of any offer by Beijing for aid to Greece after Greece's deputy foreign minister said China had offered economic support even though...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda Supporters in Yemen ‘Pledge Allegiance to Islamic State’
A group of Islamist fighters in Yemen renounced their loyalty to al Qaeda's leader and pledged allegiance to the head of the Islamic State, according to a Twitter message retrieved by U.S.-based...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Is on Your TV, on a Mission
“We have to take a selfie! We have to take a selfie!” says Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, cosmologist and perhaps the only living scientist with cult-like celebrity status. On a Tuesday evening...
View Article300 Migrants Missing in Mediterranean, Feared Dead
An estimated 300 people probably died this week after attempting to reach Italy from Libya in stormy weather, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday after speaking to a handful of survivors.An...
View ArticleUK Political Parties Call For Reform in Funding System
A leading Liberal Democrat has called for an absolute cap on the amount an individual can donate to a political party in the UK following an extravagant ball held by the Conservatives to raise money...
View ArticleHow Spain Became the World Leader in Organ Donations
An organ transplant represents a new life for a person, a palpable sense of hope extracted from the depths of sorrow and grief in the case of a dead donor. But transplants are also a matter of...
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