NSA Infiltrated RSA Security More Deeply Than Thought, Study Says
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to...
View ArticleNorth Korea and South Korea Trade Live-Fire
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired more than 100 artillery rounds into South Korean waters as part of a drill on Monday, prompting the South to fire back, officials in Seoul said, but the exercise...
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Members of a Jewish Sect Lev Tahor Flee Canada for Guatemala
Lev Tahor is a little-known, ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect with a history -- one that belies its brief existence. An insular community of perhaps 250 people that was founded in Israel before moving to New...
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Protesters Sneak Into the Guggenheim, Make It Rain False Bills
The scene at Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum on pay-as-you-wish evening this Saturday was soggy. Throngs of damp visitors, having been undeterred by the spring rainstorm and block-long line, mingled on...
View ArticleU.S. Could Free Israeli Spy in Deal to Save Peace Talks, Source Says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli spy serving a life sentence in the United States and groups of Palestinian prisoners could be freed under an emerging deal to salvage Middle East peace talks, sources...
View ArticlePutin Tells Merkel of Partial Withdrawal from East Ukraine Border
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Germany's Angela Merkel in a phone call on Monday that he had ordered a partial withdrawal of Russian troops from the eastern Ukrainian border, the...
View ArticleVideo: HealthCare.gov Goes Down Briefly on Deadline Day
HealthCare.gov went down for about five hours Monday morning, which is bad timing as Monday is deadline day. NoYesYesvideo, healthcaregov, goes, down, briefly, deadline, dayWebWhitelist
View ArticleOpinion: What Went Wrong With Figure Skating
Nowhere are foxes put in charge of the henhouse—nowhere, that is, except in skating. For more than a decade, the International Skating Union (ISU) has been presiding over the decline of figure skating:...
View ArticleHBO Documentary 'Prison Terminal' Shows the Human Side of Dying in Prison
They came from different worlds but found themselves sharing the same room—and a moment together. The scene was the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The...
View ArticleVeteran E-Cigarette Users Fret ‘Cloud Chasers’ Give Them a Bad Name
Their head is in the clouds.Long-term “vapers,” what e-cigarette users call themselves, allege that some vaping newcomers are making the industry’s image go up in faux smoke—by blowing distastefully...
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Election Protests in Turkey as Opposition Cries Foul
(Reuters) - Riot police fired water cannon in Ankara on Tuesday to disperse thousands of Turks demanding a partial recount in national polls that saw Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party sweep...
View ArticleHaruko Obokata, Who Claimed Stem Cell Breakthrough, Found Guilty of...
Dr. Haruko Obokata, a rising star of the scientific community and the lead author on two papers heralded for revolutionizing the field of stem cell research, has been found guilty of scientific...
View ArticlePhil Klay On Telling War Stories Without Telling War Stories
A character in Redeployment, the debut short story collection by Phil Klay, describes the ideal anti-war film like this.It’s not Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. It’s just a story of a kid who grows up...
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Jonathan Pollard, Convicted of Spying for Israel in 1987, Is Now Back in the...
The United States is reportedly close to agreeing to release an American named Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted of spying for Israel in 1987. If he is released, it would be part of an effort to...
View ArticleClimate Change: Is Anybody Listening?
The planet is poised for disaster, according to a landmark study released yesterday. Forests will burn, cities will flood and infrastructure will collapse under the strain of a warming climate. Climate...
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Today in Tabs: Ye Tabbes of Yore
"tabbers gonna tab" -@ascheink— ⒜⒧⒧⒤⒮⒪⒩ ⒨⒞⒞⒜⒩⒩ (@atmccann) March 27, 2014A long time ago, friends, back in the dark days of ought-'13, before the era of Newsweek, Today in Tabs was a somewhat different...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: A Corrupt and Empty Exercise in Horse Trading
Who's going to start confusing me with a ~real person~.— knguyen ebooks (@knguyen_ebooks) March 31, 2014Twitter activists finally got ColbertReport cancelled. Not the show of course, but the Twitter...
View ArticleAbbas Signs International Conventions, Jeopardizing Peace Moves
(Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed more than a dozen international conventions on Tuesday citing anger at Israel's delay of a prisoner release, in a move jeopardized U.S. efforts to...
View ArticleRepublican Budget Proposes Deep Cuts In Domestic Programs
Representative Paul Ryan, the leading Republican voice on budget policy, rolled out a new fiscal blueprint on Tuesday that calls for deep cuts in domestic programs, increased defense spending and a...
View ArticleWhy Accepted Students Should Ask Colleges About Sexual Assault
Last Thursday, several thousand high schoolers went online to learn they’d been admitted to Dartmouth, Harvard and other top Ivy League colleges.This month, as they weigh the academic programs, campus...
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