Mariel Hemingway Confronts Her Dark Family History in ‘Running From Crazy’
Tragedies have plagued the Hemingway family history with depressing frequency. Ernest Hemingway, who won Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for his fiction, shot himself with a double-barreled shotgun in 1961,...
View ArticleIn Real Estate, the Chinese Take Manhattan
NEW YORK/SYDNEY (Reuters) - For the first time, the Chinese have become the biggest foreign buyers of apartments in Manhattan, real estate brokers estimate, taking the mantle from the Russians - whose...
View ArticleThe NCAA’s Fishy Argument Against a Union for Players
Whales are curious creatures, animals that nearly defy classification. They spend most of their lives beneath the ocean’s surface, feeding on aquatic life and propelling themselves through the water by...
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Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor
Jake Norton, a climber and photographer, has stood on the top of the world three times. He’s been on Mount Everest seven times in total, made more than two dozen trips to Nepal, and even studied abroad...
View ArticleInternational Mediators Seized in Ukraine
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it was prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, where armed pro-Moscow separatists seized a bus...
View ArticleDeadly MERS Virus Still Spreading in Saudi Arabia
The deadly MERS virus has killed two more people in Saudi Arabia, and authorities say more than a dozen others are sick. The deaths occur as the country prepares to host the annual hajj, when 2 million...
View ArticleFox Isn’t So Cozy With Cliven Bundy Now That He’s Revealed as a Racist
Fox News’s The Five talk show mentioned Bundy once Thursday night.That was Ted Bundy, the serial killer and rapist who murdered more than 30 girls and women before his execution by electric chair in...
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Today in Tabs: Meet the Gentlemen of Technology
Welcome to the technology industry! Did you think tech has a totally screwed up, savagely misogynist culture? You don't even know the half of it. For the first time ever in Tabs, I am issuing a...
View ArticlePrisoner Exchange Offered in Ukraine
(Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine offered on Saturday to release eight captive international observers in a prisoner exchange, as Western governments prepared new sanctions against...
View Article'We Will Not Hesitate to Use Our Military Might'
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the United States did not use its military might to "impose things" on others, but that it would use that might if necessary to defend South Korea...
View ArticleMahmoud Abbas Says a Palestinian Unity Government Would Recognize Israel
(Reuters) - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas signaled on Saturday that he remains committed to troubled U.S.-backed peace talks, saying that any unity government agreed with the militant group Hamas...
View ArticleAfghans Brace for Another Round of Voting
(Reuters) - Afghanistan's presidential election is set to go to a second round between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after no candidate won an...
View ArticleSouth Korean Prime Minister Resigns
(Reuters) - South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to the ferry disaster, in which it was first announced that everyone had been...
View ArticleObama Urges United U.S.-E.U. Response to Russia
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said the United States and Europe must join forces to impose sanctions on Russia to stop it destabilizing Ukraine, where armed pro-Russian separatists...
View ArticleTwo Popes Become Saints
(Reuters) - Pope Francis proclaimed his predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in front of more than half a million pilgrims on Sunday, hailing both as courageous men who withstood the...
View ArticleOne Hostage Released by Ukrainian Rebels
(Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels paraded European monitors they are holding in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, freeing one but saying they had no plans to release another seven as the United States and Europe...
View ArticleEgyptian Court Seeks Death Sentence for Brotherhood Leader, 682 Supporters
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian court handed down a death sentence on the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests...
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At Least 17 Killed As Tornadoes Rip Through Arkansas, Oklahoma
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods,...
View ArticleStarting Five for Monday
1. Sterling. Silver.That's Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whose racist comments overshadowed this weekend's NBA playoff games, versus rookie NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The first true...
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Ukraine Loses at Least $80 Billion Since Russia Took Crimea
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has lost at least $80 billion since Russia annexed its southern Crimea region and the price tag will be much higher when Kiev includes lost profits and the value of possible...
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