Obama to Use Executive Action to Make U.S. Marine Sanctuary Ten Times Larger
President Barack Obama is set to announce Tuesday that he will use his executive power to double the global area of ocean set aside as a marine sanctuary by protecting a large swath of the central...
View ArticleMatch.com's New Partner Will Set You Up With Someone Who Looks Like Your Ex...
Just as online dating is growing more widely accepted (and used) than it’s ever been, Match.com is promoting a new option that’s either slightly creepy, very expensive, or both, depending on your view:...
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Today in Tabs: U+1F595 Grumpy-Programmer-Looking-at-Tab
Jill Leporetook on Clayton Christensen and the ascendent cult of disruption for The New Yorker, pointing out that Christensen's evidence is cherry-picked (and even so doesn't support his theory), that...
View ArticlePolice Tear Gas Protesters Outside Brazil World Cup Match
FORTALEZA Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a small group of anti-World Cup protesters blocking a road to the stadium where Brazil play against Mexico on...
View ArticleArgentina Keeps Hedge Funds in a Sweat After Supreme Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday not to hear an appeal by Argentina in its fight against a group of hedge fund-led creditors has prompted Argentina’s president, Cristina Kirchner, to vow not to...
View ArticleU.S. Condemns Sri Lanka Violence, Says Gov't Must Protect Minorities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday condemned religious violence in Sri Lankaand called on the government to fulfill its obligations to protect religious minorities.At least three...
View ArticleThe Gandhis Count the Cost of Keeping It in the Family
If Jawaharlal Nehru could suddenly reappear and be injected into the top of the Congress leadership with a mandate to rebuild the demoralised party, would he echo, in a political sense, the words of...
View Article1776 Was More Than the Year the Colonies Broke Free
For American history buffs, 1776 is the ne plus ultra of significant years. Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence from England, and George Washington...
View ArticleBenghazi Arrest Sparks More Conspiracy Accusations
It’s only been a few hours since the White House announced the capture of Ahmed Abu Khatallah, the suspected mastermind of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans...
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Steven Hatfill's Strange Trip From Accused Terrorist to Medical Adventurer
Steven Hatfill and I were sitting near a balcony overlooking a hangar of bomber jets arranged by war. We had wandered for hours across the vast aerospace gallery of the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly,...
View ArticleBenghazi Suspect Was Still Plotting Attacks, U.S. Says
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States told the U.N. Security Council that a suspected ringleader of the deadly 2012 attack on its diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya had been planning to...
View ArticleIran Threatens Intervention in Iraq if Holy Sites Are in Danger
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will not hesitate to defend Shi'ite Muslim holy sites in neighbouring Iraq against "killers and terrorists", Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, following rapid...
View ArticleEU Tries to Make Big Tobacco Track Every Cigarette
BAYREUTH Germany (Reuters) - It takes a British American Tobacco factory machine three minutes to load 4 million cigarettes onto a truck in northern Bavaria - but it can take a lot longer to figure out...
View ArticleExplosion Hits World Cup Viewing Area in Northeast Nigeria
DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a venue in the northeast Nigerian town of Damaturu where fans had gathered to watch a World Cup soccer match on Tuesday, a police official said,...
View ArticleOchoa Comes Up Big in Mexico's Draw Against Brazil
Mexican goalie Guillermo Ochoa, warmly known as “Memo” to the team’s supporters, stopped all eight shots on goal as El Tri played host (and tournament favorite) Brazil to a 0-0 draw in Fortaleza. It...
View ArticleUkraine Acts to Form New Team, Plans Unilateral Ceasefire
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signaled on Wednesday he aimed to put a pro-Western and business-friendly stamp on his leadership and set out peace proposals for the rebellious...
View ArticleU.S. Senate's Reid Does Not Back Sending U.S. Troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he does not back sending any U.S. troops into a conflict in Iraq that he described as that country's "civil war.""I...
View ArticleU.S. Patent Office Revokes Redskins' Trademark
The United States Patent and Trademark Office canceled the football team’s trademark registration on Wednesday due to its name being “disparaging to Native Americans.”“We decide, based on the evidence...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Admits Liberals 'Were Right' on Iraq War
Conservative pundit Glenn Beck admitted on his radio show Tuesday that he was wrong and liberals were right for opposing the invasion of Iraq.“[Liberals] said we couldn’t force freedom on people,” Beck...
View ArticleIndoor GPS Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that’s so cool, it won’t even use satellites. It will instead take location cues from subatomic variations in the earth’s magnetic...
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