After Leak of Secret Recording, Turkey's Government Keeps YouTube Ban Despite...
(Reuters) - Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that was cited by Prime Minister Tayyip...
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School Stabber Charged as an Adult as Some Victims Cling to Life
MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A 16-year-old student wielding two knives went on a stabbing rampage in the hallways of a Pittsburgh-area high school on Wednesday, wounding 22 people before he...
View ArticleLawyer Hammers Pistorius: 'Your Version Is A Lie'
PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African prosecutor accused Oscar Pistorius on Thursday of lying and altering his story when the Olympic and Paralympic athlete described the night he shot dead his...
View ArticleTwo GM Engineers on Paid Leave as Part of Ignition Switch Probe
(Reuters) - General Motors Co said it has placed two engineers on paid leave as part of an internal investigation into defective ignition switches linked to 13 deaths and the global recall this year of...
View ArticleStarting Five for Thursday
1. Teed Off The Masters begins today without, for the first time in 20 years, Tiger Woods. Or me giving a damn. 2. NC(PAY)A Vikings RB Adrian Peterson says student-athletes should be paid, citing...
View ArticleMilitant Bombs Stop Iraq Oil for a Record 40 days
MOSUL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants whose bombs have shut Iraq's main northern oil export pipeline for 40 days are preventing repairs, threatening to extend an outage that is already the longest since...
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Lawyer of Student Accused of Stabbing 21 People Says Boy 'Was Not a Loner'
MURRYSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Pennsylvania officials sought a motive on Thursday for what may have driven a 16-year-old student to turn on his classmates with two kitchen knives, stabbing...
View ArticleStephen Colbert to Replace David Letterman, CBS Announces
CBS announced Thursday that Stephen Colbert, currently the host of Comedy Central’s satirical news program The Colbert Report, has been tapped to replace David Letterman as the host of the Late...
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Photos: The Satellite Images NATO Says Show Russian Troops Massing on...
MONS Belgium (Reuters) - NATO presented satellite photographs on Thursday it said showed Russian deployments of 40,000 troops near the Ukrainian frontier along with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery...
View ArticleColumbia Accused of Silencing Sexual Assault Protest as Prospective Students...
Members of a Columbia University student group called No Red Tape say they were blocked Sunday from distributing information about sexual violence on campus to prospective students at an activities...
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Today in Tabs: Heart Bleat
I somehow stumbled onto this debate where Reihan Salam claimed he was still a neocon in Slate and then Daniel Larison was all "Nuh-uh!" and Salam was like "am so!" and then Ross Douthat and Tom Scocca...
View ArticleIsrael Tightens Economic Sanctions Against Palestinians
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel imposed economic sanctions against the Palestinians on Thursday in retaliation for their leadership signing international conventions, moves that further complicate U.S....
View ArticlePresident Obama Wraps Himself in Civil Rights Legacy of President Lyndon Johnson
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Barack Obama wrapped himself on Thursday in the civil rights legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1960s president who helped clear the way for an African-American to one day...
View ArticleA ‘Body Hack’ App That Claims to Fix Jet Lag
For as long as speedy travel across time zones has been technologically possible, humans have suffered the unpleasant—if not quite debilitating—effects of jet lag, the physiological condition that’s...
View ArticleThe Heartbleed Logo: How to Get People Talking About Internet Security
If you have an Internet connection and blood flowing through your veins, by now you’ve probably heard of Heartbleed, a bug that’s “as bad as it is possible for a security flaw to be,” which is how...
View ArticleScientists Use Women’s Own Cells to Create Lab-Grown Vaginas
For the first time, researchers have successfully implanted laboratory-grown vaginas in human patients—potentially helping women avoid drawbacks from other regenerative procedures, scientists announced...
View ArticleObama's Health Secretary Resigns After Obamacare Launch Woes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. health secretary who oversaw the botched rollout of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reforms, has resigned, a senior administration...
View ArticleVideo: Hillary Clinton Ducks a Thrown Shoe at a Vegas Speech
(Reuters) - A woman hurled a shoe at Hillary Clinton on Thursday as the former secretary of state was delivering a speech at a Las Vegas hotel, but Clinton dodged it and continued with her remarks, a...
View ArticleHeartbleed: Be afraid.
I’m cool, right?I mean, I know this Heartbleed web browser bug has a big scary icon with blood dripping from a heart, and people are freaking out left and right about whether they’re supposed to change...
View ArticleFedEx Truck Slams Tour Bus in California, Killing at 10, Including Students
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ten people died, many of them high school students, when a truck slammed into a tour bus with college hopefuls heading to a campus tour in northern California on Thursday,...
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