It’s Time to Get Tough With Putin
John McCain thinks it’s “tragic” there is no military option for the United States in Ukraine. “I’d love to tell you that there is, but frankly I don’t see it,”said the Republican senator from Arizona...
View ArticleMalaysia Military Tracked Missing Plane to West Coast: Source
(Reuters) - Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometers to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the...
View ArticleColorado Reaps $2.1 M from First Month of Recreational Pot Sales
(Reuters) - Sales of recreational marijuana products in Colorado added more than $2.1 million to state coffers in tax receipts and other fees in the first month retail sales of the drug were allowed,...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Passes Military Sex Assault Bill, May Take Months in House
(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted 97-0 on Monday to pass reforms in how the military handles sexual assault cases, but it probably will be months before the changes become law.The measure must still be...
View ArticleUnpaid Interns Are Younger Than You Think — and Older, Too
A recent NBCNews.com report tackles a widely covered trend — unpaid intenships — but finds them thriving amongst a largely unreported demographic: high schoolers. Such is the case with Max Novick, a...
View ArticleBarack Obama and Zach Galifianakis Try to One-Up Each Other on ‘Between Two...
Topping a celebrity-stacked arsenal of guests that has already included Justin Bieber, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carell, Zach Galifianakis sparred with an unlikely guest on the most recent episode of...
View ArticleCocaine Usage Way Down, but Marijuana Picks Up the Slack
Americans more than doubled their use of marijuana from 2000 to 2010 and halved their cocaine use over the same period, according to new estimates generated by the RAND Corp. for the White House Office...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Tokyo Trains for the Next One
For Japanese, the disaster of the Tohoku great earthquake is a nightmare that never goes away. Three years ago the 9.0 magnitude quake struck the Sendai region on March 11, 2011. In Tokyo, the word...
View ArticleFeinstein Accuses CIA of Spying on the Senate
Did the CIA spy on a Senate committee and violate the Constitution?Those were just two accusations lobbed at the Central Intelligence Agency when a simmering battle between the CIA and the Senate...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Between Two Tabs
"Between Two Ferns" but with Satoshi Nakamoto— Michael Roston (@michaelroston) March 11, 2014President Obamawent on "Between Two Ferns" with Zach Galifianakis to plug Healthcare.gov, so if awkwardness...
View ArticleCarnival Cruise Passengers Sue Seeking $5,000 a Month for Life
Reuters) - A group of passengers suing Carnival cruise lines for damages after an engine fire left their ship adrift for days are asking the company to pay $5,000 a month for the rest of their lives...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Shoots Down Street Artists’ Rights Case
The New York City artists who have fought for years to sell their works in public parks will not get their day in the nation’s top court.The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear a lawsuit...
View ArticleHillary’s Secret Weapons to Win the Nomination
Will Hillary Clinton be crowned Democratic queen in 2016? Many Republicans and Democrats think so. Even Donald Trump told the CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference he thought she’d be the...
View ArticleCIA Pushes Back Against Accusations That it Spied on Senate
Hours after Senate intelligence committee chair Dianne Feinstein, D-California, took to the Senate floor Tuesday to accuse the CIA of spying on the committee's computers, the Central Intelligence...
View ArticleAt Least Three Killed in Fiery Collapse of Two Harlem Buildings
At least three people were killed when two buildings collapsed around 9am ET on Wednesday morning in NYC’s Harlem neighborhood. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion, shortly after which the FDNY...
View ArticleStephen F. Austin University Is Both Undefeated in Their Conference and...
The math seems simple enough.“To go 18–0 in conference, I really haven’t fully grasped that yet,” says Brad Underwood, the first-year head coach at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas....
View ArticleThousands Clash With Police as Turkish Teenager Buried
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Riot police clashed with demonstrators in several Turkish cities for a second day on Wednesday as mourners buried a teenager wounded in protests last summer, unrest which a defiant...
View ArticleDrought May Force California to Move Salmon by Truck
The California drought is now so dire that the state government might move millions of salmon by truck to be nearer to the ocean next month.Historically, state-run salmon hatcheries have trucked fish...
View Article777 Mystery Sharpens Hunt for Black-Box Alternatives
PARIS (Reuters) - The search for the missing Malaysian jet could speed development of new ways of locating wreckage, but such technology is unlikely to replace the traditional "black box" any time...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: tab+1
"Doctor, doctor, I keep thinking that I'm a leading Swiss semiologist and pioneer of structural linguistics.""How can you be Saussure?"— Nicholas Pegg (@NicholasPegg) March 11, 2014I seem to have...
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