Starbucks to Provide Free Online College Education for Its Baristas
Starbucks is partnering with Arizona State University to provide a free—or sharply discounted—undergraduate education for its workers through the university’s online program, the coffee retail giant...
View ArticleU.S. Considers Air Strikes, Action With Iran to Halt Iraq Rebels
MOSUL Iraq/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said it could launch air strikes and act jointly with its arch-enemy Iran to support the Iraqi government, after a rampage by Sunni Islamist...
View ArticleGolfing With Gareth: What a Great Footballer Does When He’s Not in the World Cup
Last Saturday morning, Chad Hartman, an information technology consultant from Walnut Creek, California, headed out to play a round of golf at one of the world’s more scenic courses, Spyglass Hill at...
View ArticleU.S. Finds Itself on the Same Side as Iran and Hezbollah
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- After the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, scored a stunning land grab victory in Iraq last week, fast changes have been unfolding in Syria that could change the balance of...
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The Case for Interviewing the Very Old People in Your Life
When I was young, my great-grandmother Rachel—Grandma Rae, we called her—was the oldest person I’d ever met. She’d passed through New York’s Ellis Island as a child in 1906, at 6 or so years old, after...
View ArticleHow to Break the GOP’s Grip on the South
In May, Democratic strategist Tharon Johnson of Georgia had strong words for his party’s efforts to elect Democrat Michelle Nunn as the next senator from the Peach State: In brief, register...
View Article'Game of Thrones' Recap: Happy Father's Day (Spoilers!)
How fitting that Tywin Lannister, who has essentially ruled Westeros the past three seasons without actually sitting on the Iron Throne, met his end on another type of throne. The self-proclaimed...
View ArticleCan MRIs Diagnose ADHD?
In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that approximately 10,000 toddlers across the country were being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD....
View ArticleAs Islamists Assault Iraq, Pressure Mounts for PM al-Maliki to Resign
It was early July in 2006, and the United States-led war in Iraq had been heading south for two years. Shiite militias and armed groups like the Jaish al-Mahdi (or the Mahdi Army) were systemically...
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Closure for a New York Bar Forever Tied to 9/11
It’s May 29. A line of former cooks, managers, owners and a few regulars at Suspenders—a basement bar only blocks away from the World Trade Center—are loading boxes of booze and framed photographs of...
View ArticleU.S. Banks Seen Falling Short of New Debt Funding Rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wells Fargo, State Street and JPMorgan Chase & Co are below or almost at minimum capital thresholds expected to be included in a rule still being hammered out by U.S....
View ArticleIsrael Detains Dozens More in Search for Missing Teens
RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces detained more than 40 Hamas militants on Tuesday, the military said, in a West Bank crackdown on the Islamist group that is being conducted in tandem with...
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Watching the U.S. World Cup Win in a Ghanaian Neighborhood in the Bronx
Inside Papaye, a Ghanaian restaurant along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the mood was festive but restless. A hundred or so people, probably all of us either Ghanaian immigrants or Caucasian...
View ArticleSuspected Mexican Drug Trafficker Arrested at World Cup in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A suspected Mexican drug trafficker wanted in the United States was arrested in Rio de Janeiro on Monday night as he tried to board a plane to watch Mexico play in the World...
View ArticleIraqi Islamists' Gains Highlight Al Qaeda Split
(Reuters) - If the battle in Iraq and Syria were being fought by tycoons rather than jihadis, it might be called a hostile takeover in defiance of the main shareholder that has created a powerful...
View ArticleBlast Hits Gas Pipeline in Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - An explosion on Tuesday rocked the main pipeline carrying Russian natural gas to the rest of Europe but a source at Russian gas producer Gazprom said the blast in central Ukraine has...
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Photos: The Internal Refugees of Iraq
Thousands of people have fled Iraq's second city of Mosul after it was overrun by ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) militants.Iraqi children carry water to their tent at a temporary...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Summer Tabs, Drifting Away
The sun is bright, the air is hot, it's summer and it feels like the tabs are already on vacation. Also I seem to have had a bookmark syncing issue between my phone and compy? All this by way of saying...
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Independent Booksellers Mount Offensive Against Amazon's Dominance
For the window of his bookstore, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has chosen Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and William Burroughs’s The Place of Dead Roads. Fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett’s...
View ArticleU.S. Captures Ahmed Abu Khatallah, Suspected Benghazi Attack Ringleader
UPDATE 12:45 AM ET: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The suspect in the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound inBenghazi, Libya, who was captured over the weekend, will be tried in U.S. courts, U.S....
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