India Trims Perks For U.S. Staff In Spat Over Diplomat's Arrest
(Reuters) - India took retaliatory measures against the United States on Wednesday in a row over an Indian diplomat who complained of being stripped and forced to undergo "cavity searches" while in...
View ArticleHow Automatic Budget Cuts Hurt Public Safety
In November 2010, Steven Vargas, a federal probation officer in New York, received a call from a detective in Minnesota. Police in St. Paul had arrested 24-year-old Douglas Luke Robinette, who had...
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Today in Tabs: Sadvertising
Apple has a holiday iPhone commercial out which is supposed to make you cry tears of holiday joy I guess. We're supposed to think the sullen teenager is making a charming family movie instead of...
View ArticleHow to Make Money Off of the Fed Taper
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View ArticleIs Paul Ryan Playing a Long Game?
Much to everyone’s surprise, the budget deal squeezed past both houses of Congress. But where does that leave Paul Ryan, the Republican who brokered the deal with Democrats?Last summer, Ryan’s bona...
View ArticleBudget Passes the Senate, But Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet
Suddenly, peace has broken out in Washington DC. Perhaps it’s the time of the season.On Wednesday, the Senate passed the bipartisan budget agreement on a 67-33 vote and sent it to President Obama’s...
View ArticlePutin Says To Pardon Jailed Tycoon, Pussy Riot
(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin is to pardon one of his best known opponents, jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in what may be a gesture to critics of his human rights record before Russia...
View ArticleTarget Says Data from 40 Million Cards Stolen
(Reuters) - Target Corp said data from about 40 million credit and debit cards might have been stolen from shoppers at its stores during the first three weeks of the holiday season, in the...
View ArticleFormer NSA Boss Michael Hayden Can't Stop Talking
First off, I say, let’s get that Amtrak thing straightened out.Michael Hayden chuckles. The former eavesdropper-in-chief totally gets the irony of having someone secretly listening in on his phone...
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Today in Tabs: Tabs, Actually
IMPORTANT NEWS: Hating is good for your health. So let's take our medicine...In what might be contemporary journalism's longest sustained humblebrag, ex-Hill White House correspondent and Reuters...
View ArticlePregnant Nursing Home Worker 'Forced On Unpaid Leave'
Talk about a bad bedside manner. A pregnant nursing assistant at a Michigan nursing home was forced to take unpaid leave without health insurance rather than be allowed to take her doctor’s advice and...
View ArticleEnter The Muslim Sisterhood
Wafaa Hefny was not even born when her grandfather, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, was assassinated while waiting for a taxi on February 12, 1949.But like many conservative Muslims,...
View Article‘American Hustle’ Continues Long Tradition of ‘American’ Movies
The December 18 release of American Hustle signals the addition of yet another film to the "American __________” pantheon, a category whose number has increased greatly in recent years. Here we rank...
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A Lockerbie Widow's Twenty-Five-Year Crusade
It was four days before Christmas, 1988, and the day started out like any other. Victoria Cummock, a 35-year-old interior designer in Coral Gables, Fla., dropped her three young children at preschool,...
View ArticleFeral Felines Invade Brooklyn Nativity Scene
Mary and Joseph, draped in cerulean and Pepto Bismol-pink robes, crouch adoringly around Bandit. Several Wise Men (the plastic, big box-bought, garden variety kind of holy folk), donkeys and a holy...
View ArticleCan John Kerry Keep Three Sets of Talks Alive?
Secretary of State John Kerry celebrated his 70th birthday last week in Jerusalem, where he was forced to endure not only a snowstorm in a country unequipped to deal with it, but growing skepticism...
View ArticleThe U.S. Economy Zips Faster Than Expected
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in almost two years in the third quarter, the government said on Friday as it revised its estimates of business and consumer spending...
View ArticleObamacare’s Paper Problem
The all-thumbs rollout of Obamacare has been a technology debacle, but the biggest malfunction could turn out to be on paper. For millions of Americans scrambling to sign up for government-mandated...
View ArticlePussy Riot’s Prison Break
On Wednesday, the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, unanimously passed an amnesty bill that will free thousands of prisoners, including some of the country’s highest-profile...
View ArticleSo Many Cell Plans, So Few Choices
Kill your cell phone.Not your actual cell phone, just the part that makes phone calls. The part you never use, because texting and emailing are so much more efficient, because they eradicate phone tag...
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