Kerry Condemns Ukraine Referendum as 'Contrived And Bogus'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary State John Kerry rejected efforts by pro-Russian forces to hold a referendum in eastern Ukraine as "contrived and bogus" but he suggested that fresh sanctions...
View ArticleWhy Did TIME.Com Republish a Princeton Freshman’s Screed About White Privilege?
Meet Tal Fortgang, the unsuspecting Princeton student who has launched a thousand thinkpieces with a personal manifesto about refusing to atone for his privilege. You probably already have.“I have...
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Women Entrepreneurs Fight for Their Piece of the Pie
On a clear Friday morning in April, in a room near the top of the New York Times building with a humbling view of lower Manhattan, the world’s financial epicenter, eight groups of women wait to pitch...
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Rebels Start Withdrawal From Homs, Cradle of Uprising
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels started withdrawing from the heart of Homs city on Wednesday, leaving an early center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad and handing him a symbolic victory...
View Article'We're Already Not In Ukraine' - Rebel East Readies Secession Vote
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Behind the barricades of tires and car bumpers, past the masked militants who hold Donetsk's filthy administration building, there is a man in a suit in a spotless office,...
View ArticleVietnam Says Chinese Ships 'Intentionally' Rammed Two of Its Vessels
HANOI (Reuters) - Chinese ships purposely collided with two Vietnamese vessels in disputed waters where Chinese firms started operating at the weekend, causing large scale damage, Vietnam's foreign...
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Starting 5: Durant's MVP, Kershaw's Return and Jackson's New Boot
1. Kevin: LoveThunder forward Kevin Durant is named NBA Most Valuable Player and thanks mom in emotional speech, calling her "the real MVP."2. Over DownUnder In his first start since suffering an...
View ArticleCuba Arrests Four Miami-Based Exiles Suspected of Attack Plot
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has arrested four Miami-based Cuban exiles suspected of planning attacks on military installations with the goal of promoting anti-government violence on the communist-run...
View ArticleDeath Toll From Islamist Attack on Nigerian Market Town Hits 125
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - The latest big Islamist attack in Nigeria has killed least 125 people, police said on Wednesday after gunmen rampaged through a town in the northeast, near the Cameroon...
View ArticleYellen Says Housing Sector Is a Fresh Risk to the Economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Wednesday the U.S. economy was still in need of lots of support from the central bank given the "considerable slack" in the labor...
View ArticleAfter 10 Years As President, Putin's Ratings Fly High On Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Intelligent, competent, experienced, decisive and attractive - that is how Russians view Vladimir Putin, who celebrated a decade as president on Wednesday amid high tension with the...
View ArticlePutin Calls for a Delay in East Ukraine's Secession Vote
Update 12:20 pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it saw no change in the Russian force posture along the Ukrainian border, despite Russian PresidentVladimir Putin's assertion...
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David Brock's American Bridge Project Is Waiting for the Right's Next Gaffe
Six years into George W. Bush’s presidency, when Democrats swept the 2006 midterm elections, a small group of Democratic operatives and progressive activists huddled at a Starbucks on Capitol Hill to...
View ArticleClimategate Revisited: New Theory Explains The Tree Ring Controversy
In November 2009, climate skeptics had their day in the sun when an anonymous hacker posted years worth of emails sent back and forth between some of the world’s most prominent climate scientists,...
View ArticleWatch a Live View of Earth From the International Space Station
Since NASA took the first full photograph of Earth in 1972, the space agency’s fortunes have been mixed. It stopped going to the moon, its shuttle program was canceled, and its budget has been slashed...
View ArticleFox News Admits It Used Photos of Wrong Asians in Its Sewol Ferry Coverage
Media producers and editors in 2014 have hundreds—thousands, really—of news and stock photos at their fingertips: war photos, smiling teens, women laughing alone with salads. That’s a blessing and a...
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Today in Tabs: The Tab Also Rises
http://t.co/N1Qg3fe2Yl was founded in 2012 to build a social network that truly listens to developers. Unfortunately, developers are idiots— Horse iOS (@Horse_iOS) May 6, 2014The sun rises and the sun...
View ArticleU.S. Calls on China to Free Tiananmen Anniversary Activists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States urged China to release rights activist Pu Zhiqiang and other rights campaigners detained this week after attending a meeting that called for a probe into the...
View ArticleGuatemala Considers Taxing Opium Poppies
LONDON (Reuters) - Guatemala is considering the possibility of earning taxes from the sale of opium poppies to help fund drug prevention programmes and other social spending, the country's interior...
View ArticleWomen Are in Danger in 'Game of Thrones,' Just Like They Are in Our World
Meet Cersei Lannister: Queen regent, wine aficionado, widow, incestuous date-rape victim, grieving mother whose first-born son was the victim of regicide, betrothed to a “renowned pillow-biter” for the...
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