Pope Francis Speaks Out Against Legalization of Marijuana and Other Drugs
After a several-week absence from the media spotlight, Pope Francis emerged on Friday as a speaker at the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome, where he said he was opposed to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Parts of East Ukraine, a Daily Struggle to Survive
SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Clutching empty plastic bottles, hundreds of people stand waiting for water in this besieged city, with the almost constant thud of artillery shells echoing in the...
View ArticleNYC Will Pay $40 Million to End 'Central Park Jogger' Lawsuit: Source
(Reuters) - New York City has agreed to pay $40 million to five men who were convicted, and later exonerated, of brutally raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989, settling a long-fought civil...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spain's Empty Housing Project Valdeluz
The first thing you notice in Valdeluz, Spain is the wind. It meets no resistance as it blows hard and loud across empty lots where apartment blocks were meant to stand. Roads that appear on Google...
View ArticleIran Acts to Eliminate Sensitive Uranium Stockpile Under Nuclear Deal
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has acted to eliminate virtually all of its most sensitive stockpile of enriched uranium gas under a landmark nuclear deal with six world powers last year, an IAEA report...
View ArticleYo App Got Hacked. So?
This piece will not locatemeaning in Yo, the single-purpose messaging app that’s held the Internet’s fascination since raising $1 million in angel investment earlier this week. That is contrary to the...
View ArticleQuora Question: What Will it Take for Supersonic Jets to Be a Mainstream Form...
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 ArticleNigeria Wraps Up Kidnap Investigation With 200 Girls Still Missing
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria wrapped up its inquiry into the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by militants on Friday with little progress to show, reporting almost none had been freed after the...
View ArticleSewer Sludge Can Reveal Which Drugs a Community Is On, and When
Sewage epidemiology, or the study of chemicals present in human waste, is a burgeoning field in the world of illegal drug monitoring. Testing for drugs in public water supplies has revealed many...
View ArticleU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Served in Haiti Cholera Lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for victims of a cholera epidemic in Haiti said on Friday they have served United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a complaint in New York as part of a federal...
View ArticleU.S. Says Russian Tanks, Artillery Are Ready to Be Sent to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had information that Russia had accumulated tanks and artillery at deployment sites that may be provided to separatist fighters in...
View ArticleShooting at the Ivory Tower: A New Documentary Sets Its Sights on America’s...
Documentarian Andrew Rossi has an odd eye for institutions in crisis. His last feature, the 2011 film Page One: Inside the New York Times, was a tour of the Gray Lady at a 150-year business low, when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today in Tabs: Gerund Determiner Adjective Noun
`alias sh=“smh”`— Casey Kolderup (@ckolderup) June 20, 2014Remember 2002, when web comments seemed like they had a future? Remember when big news organizations listened politely to the wild-eyed...
View ArticleRand Paul Defends Obama Against Dick Cheney
Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, has waded into the ongoing blame game over who is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Iraq. A constant critic of President Barack Obama, this time the Republican...
View ArticleThree U.S. Troops Killed by Bomb Blast in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. troops and a working dog were killed by a bomb blast on Friday in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.No information was...
View ArticlePope Francis Condemns Mafia Violence Against Children While in Mob Heartland
CASSANO ALL' JONIO Italy (Reuters) - Pope Francis, visiting a stronghold of one of Italy's most dangerous crime groups, on Saturday comforted the jailed father of a three-year-old boy killed in an...
View ArticleInvestigation Finds Dov Charney Misused American Apparel Funds
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An internal investigation at American Apparel Inc has found that its CEO Dov Charney violated company policies, ranging from misusing company funds to failing to stop the...
View ArticleDiane Keaton Shows Style and Substance in Her New Memoir
It would be easy to review Diane Keaton’s latest book of autobiographical essays by cherry-picking the parts where she talks all about her famous flings. She is “full of love” for Woody Allen, full of...
View ArticleHow Syria’s Assad Helped Forge ISIS
Mohammed Al-Saud is under no illusions. “In 2011, the majority of the current ISIS leadership was released from jail by Bashar Al Assad,” he said. “No one in the regime has ever admitted this, or...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Baghdad
To understand the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq, the masked men of ISIS and their call for an Islamic caliphate, go back 1,239 years. The year is 775. The place is Baghdad. The Sunni caliph Al Mansur...
View Article