Nigerian President Cancels Visit to Village of Kidnapped Girls
(Reuters) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the village from which more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram a month ago due to...
View ArticleStarting 5: Kevin Durant, Johnny Cueto, Steve Kerr and a Marv-eolous Revenge?
1. We Are (G)one Oklahoma City erases a 16-point deficit in Game 6 and, fueled by league MVP Kevin Durant's 39 points and 16 boards, eliminates the Clippers from the NBA postseason. The winner in each...
View ArticleThe Latest Document From the Snowden Trove Highlights Israeli Spying
Israel had a few triumphs, this week, in its campaign to rebut charges that it spies in the U.S. It got a hearing with the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, it saw the removal of a...
View ArticleTwo Explosions Kill at Least Ten in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Back-to-back explosions killed at least 10 people in a packed Nairobi market on Friday, extending a spate of attacks that have piled pressure on the government and spurred Britain...
View ArticlePakistan Invites Incoming Indian Prime Minister To Visit
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday invited India's incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit, just hours after India's opposition candidate secured a crushing victory in the world's largest...
View ArticleGM to Pay $35 Million Fine for Deadly Ignition Flaws
(Reuters) - General Motors Co will pay a $35 million fine as part of the U.S. Transportation Department's investigation into the handling of faulty ignition switches in some of its vehicles, the...
View ArticleCharacter Count
Alfred Hitchcock reportedly said that actors should be treated like cattle. Of all the livestock that has grazed in Hollywood's pastures, 83-year-old Robert Duvall may have the toughest hide and the...
View ArticleMourning Turkish Mining Town Hit with Tear Gas and Water Cannon as Thousands...
SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) - Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse several thousand protesters on Friday in a Turkish mining town still grieving the death of some 300 workers in the...
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In Memory of Ron Moreau, Newsweek Foreign Correspondent and Daily Beast Writer
This article was originally published on The Daily Beast. Some of Moreau's many Newsweek stories can be read here. We lost Ron Moreau in the spring of 1991. He had gone to Iraqi Kurdistan for Newsweek...
View ArticleDeath Row Inmate: Videotape My Execution
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri death row inmate is asking a federal court to allow videotaping his execution, scheduled for next week, to record any evidence of cruel and unusual...
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Today in Tabs: Your Soul is Still Dancing
Everything happens so much— Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks) June 28, 2012Why do we read the news? I know hardly anyone does, but I'm addressing you specifically, because if you're reading this you...
View ArticleGM Told Its Engineers: Don't Use the Word 'Problem'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co warned its engineers against using the words "safety" and "defect" when identifying product risks, and explicitly told them not to use inflammatory terms...
View ArticleFighting in Benghazi Kills at Least 19
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan irregular forces backed by helicopters clashed with Islamist militias in Benghazi on Friday in fighting that left at least 19 people dead and posed a new test to the...
View ArticleKidnappings at Chinese Work Site Point to Boko Haram, UK Offers Nigeria...
(Reuters) - Britain is offering to send advisers to help Nigeria's military structure its efforts to fight Boko Haram, Foreign Minister William Hague said on Saturday, ahead of a meeting to hammer out...
View ArticleAllies Urge Obama to Appoint CEO for Obamacare
(Reuters) - A group of healthcare experts close to the White House is urging the Obama administration to appoint a new chief executive officer to oversee Obamacare's online health insurance exchanges...
View ArticleAttorney General Eric Holder: Persistent, Subtle Racism Poses Bigger Threat...
(Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday while public utterances of bigotry are roundly condemned in the United States racial discrimination persists in more subtle ways.Speaking on...
View ArticleWest Africa Leaders Vow to Wage 'Total War' on Boko Haram
(Reuters) - West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage "total war" on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of...
View ArticlePiketty, Piketty: The Knives Are Out
In a 4,000-plus word-response to criticisms leveled at him by The Financial Times over the state of global wealth inequality, celebrated French economist Thomas Piketty fired back, saying the British...
View ArticleGroup Led By Media Mogul Geffen Bids Over $1.5 Billion for LA Clippers: Source
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group that includes billionaire media executive David Geffen, television icon Oprah Winfrey and Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison bid more than $1.5 billion for the...
View ArticleSnowden Raised Concerns, but No Evidence He Complained, NSA Says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An email exchange released on Thursday shows that Edward Snowden questioned the U.S. National Security Agency's legal training programs, but provides no evidence the former...
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