Target's CEO is Out, and Investors Are Nervous
(Reuters) - Target Corp's decision to oust Gregg Steinhafel as chairman and chief executive some five months after a massive data breach has triggered concerns the No. 3 U.S. retailer might have even...
View ArticleEgyptian Leader Says Brotherhood Won't Exist if He's Elected
CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the Muslim Brotherhood - the group he removed from power last year - will not exist if he is elected president.The...
View ArticleU.S.: Russian Planes Flew Near California, Guam, in Upped Activity
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia's intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the...
View ArticleCutting Edge Chefs Serve Up Food That Tells a Story
We all know that old saying, “every picture tells a story” (though probably not that it was first used in an advertisement for backache kidney pills), but, nowadays, it seems the latest trend in haute...
View ArticleA League of Its Own
Professional tennis has not offered its public much new since the balls turned from white to yellow and an eccentric American called Jimmy Van Alen forced the introduction of the tie-break in the...
View ArticleIsrael Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S.
Whatever happened to honor among thieves? When the National Security Agency was caught eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, it was considered a rude way to treat a friend. Now...
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China Detains Rights Lawyer Ahead of 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday detained a prominent human rights lawyer on a charge of "causing a disturbance", two lawyers said, after he attended a weekend meeting that urged a probe of the...
View ArticleUkraine Says More Than 30 Separatists Killed; Germany Warns Country Is Close...
Update 5:52 AM ET: KIEV (Reuters) - More than 30 pro-Russian separatists were killed in fighting near the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on...
View ArticleSouth Korean Diver Dies in Ferry Search Operation
SEOUL (Reuters) - A diver lost consciousness and died on Tuesday during the search operation for victims still missing after last month's South Korean ferry disaster.The diver had lost radio contact...
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Starting 5: Chris Paul, No-Win Samardzija, The Real Bradley Beal and a...
1. Beal That You Can Be Washington Wizard guard Bradley Beal became the first 20-year-old since Magic Johnson (1980) to score 25 points while collecting at least five rebounds and five assists in a...
View ArticlePolice Say Eight More Girls Abducted in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of their strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday.The...
View ArticleUkraine Buries Its Dead and Slides Towards War
KRAMATORSK/ODESSA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Both sides have been burying their dead as Ukraine slides further towards war, with supporters of Russia and of a united Ukraine accusing each other of tearing...
View ArticleAfghan Police Shoot Into the Air During Aid Truck Fight
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan police fired gunshots into the air on Tuesday to disperse villagers who fought police and aid workers distributing emergency supplies near the remote site of...
View ArticleWith Campus Reporting Systems in Question, Who to Turn to After a Sexual...
Last week the Obama administration revealed that 55 colleges and universities are under federal investigation for mishandling reported sexual assault cases. Tufts University, meanwhile, has been found...
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White House Report: Climate Change Is Already Here, and Is Going to Get Worse
Climate change “has moved firmly into the present,” opens a congressionally mandated report released Tuesday on the state of climate change in the U.S. Popularly imagined as affecting faraway corners...
View ArticlePistorius Accused of Intimidating Steenkamp's Friend in Court
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, tried to intimidate a friend of the former model in...
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Deadly Oklahoma Wildfire Largely Contained
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A central Oklahoma wildfire that has killed one person, destroyed about 30 structures and caused more than 1,000 people to flee to safer ground has been largely contained,...
View ArticleBenghazi: The Issue That Lives On, and On, and On
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Benghazi is back.The controversy over the deadly 2012 attack in the Libyan city has resurfaced with Republicans accusing the White House of creating a political smokescreen in...
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Today in Tabs: Eternal Tuesday
shit is absolutely tuesday! easily confused!!— olivia taters (@oliviataters) May 6, 2014It is Eternal Tuesday. It is 2:00 on Tuesday afternoon for me right now where I am, and I feel like it always...
View ArticleChina's Alibaba Embarks on U.S. IPO Journey
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alibaba Holdings Inc gave investors a closer look at the scale and growth of the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut in an IPO prospectus filed Tuesday in the first step of what...
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