With Israeli Teens Missing, Palestinian Unity Frays
GAZA (Reuters) - The disappearance of three Jewish youths in the occupied West Bank has rocked reconciliation between Palestinian political factions and risks sinking a new unity government, analysts...
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U.S. Win Over Ghana Was Most-Watched World Cup Game Ever in America
1. USA World Cup Win Over Ghana Pays Off for ESPN and SponsorsWhen John Brooks headed in his late goal against Ghana, he didn’t just give the US soccer team a victory for the books: he also made a lot...
View ArticleAmazon Expected to Show Off Its First Smartphone
On Wednesday afternoon, Amazon will probably unveil its first smartphone. The company hasn’t said what new features the phone will have. But in the days prior to the “launch event” it sent attendees a...
View ArticleObama’s Approval Rating Has Sunk to 41 Percent, According to New Poll
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has sunk to 41 percent, matching a previous low for the sitting president, according to aWall Street Journal/NBC News poll.In particular, the president’s...
View ArticleAmazon’s New Smartphone Is Engineered to Sell You Products on Amazon
On Wednesday, Amazon released the Fire phone, its hotly anticipated bid for a share of the smartphone market. The device, which features four cameras and a 3-D interface, is focused on connecting users...
View ArticleIn ‘Letters of James Agee to Father Flye,’ a Writer Talks His Tough Trade
Let the rerelease of the Letters of James Agee to Father Flye be a reminder to all those who dream of becoming a writer that stringing together sentences is a brutal way to make a living. Writing may...
View ArticleKanye Says Annie Leibovitz Ruined His Honeymoon, Sort Of
It’s a strange thing to be Kanye West, even for just a day, or—worse—for a honeymoon spoiled by the pressures of a wedding photo Instagram that must transcend the limits of earthly perfection and...
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Today in Tabs: Yo
seriously, can I JUST ONCE get a frontlash?— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) June 17, 2014So like a week ago, I read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Britney Spears profile, Miss American Dream, but somehow forgot to...
View ArticleGuest Workers Flee Thai Military Coup
BANGKOK—No one knows where the rumors started, but they traveled fast among Thailand’s community of undocumented Cambodian laborers. In the aftermath of the Thai military coup, they said, a crackdown...
View ArticleSean Penn: We’ve Turned the Corner in Haiti
The rains have come to the Caribbean and hurricane season is upon us. But for the first time in four years, the nearly 60,000 people who sought refuge on the Petionville Club golf course after the...
View ArticleFish-Eating Spiders Are Everywhere
Arachnophobes, stop reading: Researchers have found fish-eating spiders on every continent in the world except Antarctica, they claim in a new PLOS ONE paper published Wednesday.Historically, spiders...
View ArticleQuora Question: How Engaged is the United States in Egypt?
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 ArticleCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Gives NYC Mansion a 21st Century Update
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion, an impressive mélange of Colonial and Georgian revival on Manhattan’s Upper East Side completed in 1902, is a testament to the sometimes beautiful excesses of American...
View ArticleIraq Asks United States for Air Support to Counter Rebels
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq has asked the United States for air support in countering Sunni rebels, the top U.S. general said on Wednesday, after the militants seized major cities in a...
View ArticleAt Least 28 Bodies Found at a Ranch in Eastern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had found the remains of at least 28 people in a mass grave at a ranch in the eastern state of Veracruz, which has been wracked by...
View ArticleWithout a Key Obamacare Extension, 7 Million Americans Might Lose Their...
No one’s talking about it, but an impending funding cutoff, if it occurs, could soon severely affect access to health care for some of the nation’s most at-risk citizens.In a study published earlier...
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Photo Essay: Modern Myanmar
It is the upper class moving on, tasting the beginning of a golden age, dealing with the challenge of transforming the hard-working Myanmar people—both in their wallets and in their mentality—after...
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Monty Python Has the Last Laugh With Farewell Reunion
The Monty Python team got into hot water over their 1979 life of Jesus spoof, Life of Brian. Now, though, the team might reflect ruefully on Christ’s words that “a prophet is not without honor, except...
View ArticleIt Can Kill You: The Scary Facts People Don’t Know About Alzheimer’s Disease
Imagine losing your memories—forgetting your friends, unable to recognize your spouse, no longer recalling the names of your own children. Imagine, too, that you lose interest in reading, hiking,...
View ArticleMassive Battle for Iraq's Biggest Oil Refinery
TIKRIT Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi government forces battled Sunni militants for control of the country's biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an...
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