For Fallen Soldiers' Families, Bergdahl Release Stirs Resentment
(Reuters) Robert Andrews believes his own son might still be alive if U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had not gone missing from his Afghan guard post on June 30, 2009.As Bergdahl emerges from five...
View ArticleChina Defends Tiananmen Crackdown on Eve of 25th Anniversary
BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it had chosen the...
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Federighi Is Apple's Next 'Superman' and Other Things We Learned at WWDC
Tim Cook knows his place. The Apple CEO, shirttails out and radiating ebullience, offered a few introductory remarks about changing the world to the 6,000 app developers gathered at the company’s...
View ArticleQatar Allowing Freed Taliban Men to Move Freely in Country: Official
DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar has moved five Afghan Taliban prisoners freed in exchange for a U.S. soldier to a residential compound and will let them move freely in the country, a senior Gulf official said...
View ArticlePutin to Avoid Obama at D-Day Anniversary in France
SOCHI Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in France on Friday during a visit on the 70th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in World War...
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Quora Question: Did Vladimir Putin Overplay His Hand With Ukraine?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleAs Deadly MERS Virus Spreads, Saudi Arabia Fires Another Health Official
RIYADH/LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has sacked Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish who has been criticized by some international scientists over his handling of the deadly MERS virus that has...
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25 Years After Tiananmen, China’s Underground Railroad Still Saves Dissidents
Pastor Bob Fu knows about life on the run. Back in 1996, when he and his wife lived in Beijing, they spent two months behind bars because of their work in the underground Protestant “house church”...
View ArticleThe Canadian Dentist Who Wants to Clone John Lennon
There is a dentist in Canada who is trying to clone John Lennon. It sounds complicated and fantastical, and maybe it is, but it is also that simple, if you pare it down to its essence: a dentist, a...
View ArticleProtesters in Thailand Adopt 'Hunger Games' Protest Sign
Thai demonstrators have adopted a new hand sign as part of silent protests against the military coup, according to reports: the three-finger salute used in the wildly popular Hunger Games movie series...
View ArticleStarting 5: Dan Marino Sues the NFL Over Concussions
1. Dan Marino's Head LineThe former Miami Dolphin quarterback joins 14 other ex-players in a lawsuit alleging that the NFL misled them about the long-term effects of concussions. Marino, 52, threw 420...
View ArticleAssad Votes for Himself in Wartime Election Opponents Call a Fraud
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for President Bashar al-Assad but which his opponents have dismissed as a charade in the midst...
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Photographs: D-Day Sites in 1944 and Now
June 6, 1944, D-Day, began the largest seaborne invasion in history. It became the turning point for the Allied victory in the European theater in World War II. For the 70th anniversary of the...
View ArticleCarbon Regulations a Win for Democrats?
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that addressing climate change may help save the planet, but it’s a loser politically.But there’s mounting evidence that that is no longer the case. Polling...
View ArticleSeattle Adopts $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage
Seattle is home to Starbucks, grunge music, rainy gray weather—and now the highest minimum wage in the country.At $15, the new local minimum wage will be more than twice the federal minimum ($7.25 an...
View ArticleFog of War Falls Heavy After Violence in Eastern Ukraine Region
LUHANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Stepping over shrapnel strewn across a leafy park in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, pro-Russian rebel leader Vasily Nikitin gives his version of what happened in the...
View ArticleCNN Reporter Attacked on Air Is an 'Agent,' Turkey's Erdogan Says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called CNN correspondent Ivan Watson a "flunky" and an "agent" for his coverage of anti-government protests days after police...
View ArticleDid John Oliver’s Call Urging Trolls to Comment on Net Neutrality Crash FCC...
Former Daily Show comedian John Oliver devoted 13 minutes of his new HBO show Last Week Tonight on Sunday to explaining the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming ruling on Net neutrality. Oliver...
View ArticleNewly Found Planet May Have Flowing Water, Astronomers Report
An international team of astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered two new planets, one of which might support flowing water, according to the findings published Tuesday by...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Not Awl Writers
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not "content creator"?— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) June 1, 2014Brooklyn Magazine's Chris Chafin is only the latest New York writer to prove that you can...
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