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NCAA Basketball Finals: The Inevitables vs. The Interlopers
On one court, we have the Game of Destiny. On the other, we have John Calipari’s instantly classic quote from Saturday evening about his Kentucky team: “We got 40 more minutes to play basketball, and...
View ArticlePro-Moscow Protesters Seize Arms, Declare Republic; Kiev Fears Invasion
(Reuters) - Pro-Moscow protesters in eastern Ukraine seized arms in one city and declared a separatist republic in another, in moves Kiev described on Monday as part of a Russian-orchestrated plan to...
View ArticleNSA-Leaker Snowden Shares 'Truth-Telling' Award With Journalist Who Helped Him
On Monday, the Ridenhour Foundation announced that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and journalist Laura Poitras will be awarded the Truth-Telling Prize for their collaborative efforts to expose the...
View ArticleWorkers Clash with Guards and Shots Fired at Rio Park
(Reuters) - Workers building Rio's 2016 Olympic Park fought with security guards on Monday but although shots were fired no one was injured in the melee, eyewitnesses said.Scuffles broke out between...
View ArticleTen Unforgettable David Letterman Guest Moments
Whatever you think of David Letterman, the news of his impending retirement occasions a flood of flashbacks that transcend the talk show host’s personality and comedic skills. In other words, it’s the...
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Making the Greatest Music Video of All Time
The six Top 10 singles preceding “Thriller”—“The Girl Is Mine,” “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” “Human Nature” and “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”—were record-setting. No other...
View ArticlePakistani Baby Charged With Attempted Murder
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Relatives of a nine-month old baby charged with attempted murder in Pakistan have taken him into hiding, one said on Tuesday, in a case that has thrown a spotlight on...
View ArticlePalestinian Envoy in Prague Likely Killed by Booby-Trapped Book: Paper
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Palestinian ambassador to Prague who died in a blast in January was most likely killed by a decades-old charge of Semtex plastic explosive concealed in a book, a newspaper...
View ArticleVideo: Fist Fight Breaks Out in Ukraine's Parliament
KIEV (Reuters) - Deputies in the Ukrainian parliament brawled in the chamber on Tuesday after a communist leader accused nationalists of playing into the hands of Russia by adopting extreme tactics...
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The Starting Five for Tuesday
1."This is what happens when you ban us!"Final Four Most Outstanding Player Shabazz Napier of UConn uses his one shining moment with CBS' Jim Nantz to rail against NCAA hypocrisy. A sedition unlike any...
View ArticleKerry Says Russia May Be Planning a Military Move in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry squarely blamed Russian forces on Tuesday for separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to lay the groundwork for...
View ArticleTurkey's Social Media Wars
In the weeks before Turkey’s March 30 election, the government shut down some popular social networks, including Twitter, YouTube and Vimeo. The country’s highest court reversed that mandate last week,...
View ArticlePistorius Breaks Down as He Recounts Steenkamp's Death
(Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sobbed in the witness stand on Tuesday as he described how, gripped by fear, he shot dead his girlfriend through a locked...
View ArticleJustice Department Wary of Bitcoin, Attorney General Says
(Reuters) - The Justice Department will have to be creative in order to make sure criminals do not use virtual currencies such as Bitcoin to secretly move funds, Attorney General Eric Holder said on...
View ArticleUS Warns on Iran 'Breakout' Capability as Nuclear Talks Start
(Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday Iran has the ability to produce fissile material for a nuclear bomb in two months, if it so decided, as Tehran and six world powers swung into a new round...
View ArticleU.S. Navy to Test Futuristic, Super-Fast Gun at Sea in 2016
(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy, a "Star Wars"...
View Article#NotABugSplat, an Art Project Designed to Be Seen by Drones
In the heavily targeted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area of northwest Pakistan, a child’s expressionless face stares up from a giant field.It is a 90-by-60-foot poster, a politically charged art installation...
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What UConn’s Victory Says About 'Slave Catchers'
It was, to paraphrase Jim Nantz, a sedition unlike any other.Minutes after the University of Connecticut had defeated the University of Kentucky to claim the NCAA men’s basketball championship in a...
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Today in Tabs: Tabs&
theory that code #vulns are a metaphor for feelings— kate losse (@katelosse) April 8, 2014The internet is completely screwed. Today's big news is the weirdly well-branded and semiotically-dense...
View ArticleTwitter Freshens Up Its User Profile Pages
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages on Tuesday, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service.In response to...
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