Jurors Who Convicted Occupy Protester Cecily McMillan for Assault Ask Judge...
Earlier this week, 12 jurors unanimously convicted Cecily McMillan, 25, of assaulting a New York police officer during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in 2012. Now, nine of the jurors are asking...
View ArticlePresidential Palace in Yemen Attacked by Militants
SANAA (Reuters) - A gunfight broke out between security guards and militants at the presidential palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, witnesses said, and a security source reported several...
View ArticleWith 2001 Crash in Their Minds, Argentinians Brace for New Downturn
Minutes after the ferry leaves Buenos Aires’ posh Puerto Madero port en route to Uruguay, Argentines start milling around the brightly lit, spacious, duty-free section of the boat. They linger the...
View ArticleFormer Time Warner Chief Named Interim CEO Of Los Angeles Clippers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons was named on Friday to serve as interim chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Clippers while the National Basketball Association...
View ArticleWinner Takes It All?
Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, on the last day of April, has just admitted that the country’s security forces are “helpless” in their efforts to quell pro-Russian rebels in the...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Tabs by Apple
[Ed note: I'm off today because reasons! Tabs today are in the able hands of Tim Maly. Take it away Tim. –R]So sad about the draft. All those promising young men sent off to die on some field...
View ArticleInterns Aren't the Only Ones Not Getting Paid at the White House
Monica Lewinsky was only an intern when she began a sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton in 1995.That’s perhaps the first thing you know about Lewinsky (her being History’s Most Infamous...
View ArticleMichelle Obama Says She's 'Outraged' Over Missing Nigerian Girls
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama's weekly radio address on Saturday to express outrage over the kidnapping of...
View ArticleSearch for Flight MH370 Heads to Site of First 'Ping'
HMAS STIRLING NAVAL BASE, Australia (Reuters) - An Australian naval vessel carrying an underwater drone involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 left port on Saturday on its second...
View ArticleLawyer for Pakistani Doctor Who Helped CIA Get Bin Laden Quits After Threats
(Reuters) - The lawyer defending a Pakistani doctor jailed after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden is quitting the case because of death threats and alleged U.S. interference in the trial, the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Renews Threat of Nuclear Test
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea renewed a threat on Saturday to conduct a nuclear test amid heightened concern that the reclusive state with a stockpile of missiles may set off an atomic device for the...
View ArticleRussian Official Says He'll Return in Bomber After Being Barred From Romania
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania asked Moscow for an explanation on Saturday after Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin, reacting to being barred from its airspace, tweeted he would return in a...
View ArticleBrazil Deploys Troops to Secure Borders for World Cup
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil began deploying 30,000 troops on Saturday to patrol its borders and beef up security for the World Cup soccer tournament that will kick off in 12 Brazilian cities next...
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East Ukraine Votes: Referendum Edges Country Further Into Chaos
MARIUPOL/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatist rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule in east Ukraine on Sunday and fighting flared anew in a conflict that has raised fears of civil...
View ArticleRebels Fighting Each Other in Syria; Al Qaeda Group Wins Major Victory
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group has wrested control of key parts of the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor from other rebel groups, activists said on Sunday, worsening infighting that...
View ArticleDemocrats Try to Win the Obamacare Argument With Skeptical Public
SOMERSWORTH, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in the Congress have grown more confident in recent months about their ability to use the president's signature healthcare...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Says He's Ready to Be President
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A year after falling out of favor with fellow conservatives over his push to reform the U.S. immigration system, one-time Tea Party golden boy Marco Rubio is rebuilding bridges...
View ArticleEast Ukraine Separatists Say 89 Percent Chose Self-Rule
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Nearly 90 percent of voters in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk voted for self-rule, the head of the separatist election commission said on Sunday."Eighty nine...
View ArticleNigeria President Optimistic Over Finding Abducted Schoolgirls
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday international military and intelligence assistance made him optimistic about finding 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamic...
View ArticleSkywalkers Sneak to the Top of the World's Tallest Buildings—and Bring Back...
The biting wind blowing off the China Sea stung the cheek of Vadim Mahora as he dangled more than half a kilometre above the ground from the top of East Asia’s tallest skyscraper, the Shanghai Tower....
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