- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderThe idea was to condemn hedge funders who've profited from fast food companies that "exploit workers" and pay "poverty-wages." What happened instead was a bunch of protesters storming a shareholder activist conference, targeting the wron...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Clayton police to release more details into death investigation of Missouri auditor
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.A four-year-old goat named Bodie is being dubbed "Van Goat" after he showed off his painting skills in front of an audience in New Mexico this past Sunday.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalViolence erupts between opposition protesters, police in Guinea's capital a day after 1 killed
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.SUV knocks down boy, 4, then runs over him; another hit-run crash hurts mom and son, 2
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe use of robots across the manufacturing spectrum is growing.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderIf there was one promising takeaway from the New York Knicks falling into a well of despair two months into the season, it was that they would have a shot at the No. 1 pick in the draft. Last Saturday, with three games left in the season...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalA male Sumatran elephant found dead without tusks in Indonesia's Aceh province
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Sons: Prosecutor decided their father killed mother, then himself, then made the evidence fit
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
José Díaz-Balart talks with Nathan Johnson and Jared Milrad, the same-sex couple featured in Hillary Clinton’s first campaign video. Johnson and Milrad recently invited Clinton to their wedding. - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderRunning a business is stressful enough. But on top of that, one-third of all small-business owners get slapped with payroll penalties every year. The main problem is that many of them do their payroll manually. 46% don't have an accounta...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Mashable!
LONDON — Sue Perkins, the Great British Bake Off co-presenter who was the bookmakers' favourite to replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear , has taken a break from Twitter. She told her followers her "timeline has been full of blokes w... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Mashable!
Things are getting hairy in the world of the Avengers. Marvel is targeting a younger audience by releasing a G-rated, totally not fake version of its upcoming blockbuster The Avengers: Age of Ultron Jimmy Kimmel ran a clip of their lates... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Alabama doctor says he and a patient tried to help woman who was shot in his office
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CNN.comWealthy Nigerians used to travel abroad to get their fix of luxury goods.
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Tuesday means only one thing if you're a Destiny fan: Reset day! It's that wonderful time when Bungie's regular offering of high-reward Weekly Heroic and Nightfall Strike missions are rebooted (along with any raid p... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CNN.com
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“If my mother taught me anything, it’s that this is the most desperate demand that a parent can make on a child. The covenant of having a child is simply that you give your child everything possible, and they owe you nothing ... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderA healthy labor market is the ultimate sign of a well-functioning, growing economy. The US economy is currently in its sixth year of expansion, and amid all this, the unemployment rate has been tumbling. But one thing continues to be mis...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostMOSCOW — As culture wars over Russia’s moral core ratchet up, the country is descending into a national debate — and official inquiry — over twerking.It all started with an innocent — well, okay, maybe not so innocent — video of a dance ...
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Get your fingers ready and practice your best rock stance Guitar Hero is back. Activision is resurrecting the music franchise with a new entry, Guitar Hero Live , for consoles and mobile later this year. The revamped title brings a brand... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comFour former Blackwater security contractors face decades in prison for a 2007 shooting in Baghdad. The attack killed more than a dozen civilians, which prosecutors called an unprovoked ambush. One of the men received a life sentence. Dav...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderMusic games like "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" had a meteoric rise and subsequent fall . For a few years, it was impossible to go to a bar or party without running into a group of folks huddled around a screen, furiously attempting to re...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderZillow is getting crushed. Shares of the online real estate database company opened down as much as 9% in early trading after it lowered its revenue guidance for the year on a call with investors. Near 10:10 am ET, shares had recov...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comTwo cruise ships with the outbreaks left Fort Lauderdale at the end of March for a 15-night cruise. Both ships arrived in San Diego. Vladimir Duthiers reports on how the authorities are determining the cause of the contagious outbreak.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostFor the past decade, Australia has been one of the more consistent supporters of American military interventions in the Middle East. This week, the government of Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced it was deploying some additional 300 t...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderLegendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller said that it's "ridiculous" that rich people like himself and billionaire Ken Langone get Social Security checks each month from the government. "I mean it's ridiculous that our So...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalOfficials investigate the possible burning of grass on agricultural lands.
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There will only ever be one Robin Williams , but Jamie Costa is coming pretty close The actor released a compilation of Vines, titled "Never Had A Friend Like Him," of 20 impressions of Williams' most notable characters. The impressions ... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Blaze - Stories
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- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comA popular California cougar with the name P-22 is known among many around Los Angeles. Workers found the calm cat Monday, and it wouldn't budge. Ben Tracy reports on the attempts to retrieve the stubborn feline from its newfound shelter ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalAsiana Airlines plane skids off runway while landing in Japan; about 20 injured slightly
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderGlobal stocks surged by $5 trillion in the past 3 months. In an email Tuesday, Deutsche Bank's Torsten Sløk wrote that some of his clients are worried that the strong dollar is the biggest drawback on economic growth and inflation. They ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comAlaska Airlines investigating how jet managed to get airborne with a baggage worker apparently asleep under passengers' feet
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comLincoln's assassination came just five days after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. The ceremony signaled the end of the bloody civil war that had consumed Lincoln’s presidency. His death rocked the nation. Bill Plante reports fro...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderThe man who launched the internet into a frenzy after a mysterious 10-day absence , illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula Crimea, engineered a civil war in Ukraine, and just solid advanced missile systems to Iran has been...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
Republicans have struggled lately with the science of climate change, evolution, contraception, and vaccinations. The new addition: nuclear science. - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderThe grim-faced, heavily-tattooed suspect in Monday's North Carolina college shooting was unrecognizable to his former classmates from high school. Kenneth Stancil III's family and former classmates struggled to make sense of his radical ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comCDC trying to determine what made so many people sick
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- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comUnique reason for emergency landing; will any Democrat challenge Hillary Clinton?; your breath as leading indicator of your health
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As word spread on April 14, 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot while attending a performance there with his wife at Ford's Theatre, newspapers scrambled to provide the latest details to their readers. See also: The little ... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalCanada sending military trainers to train Ukrainian troops, joining US and British efforts
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comRobert Bates, a volunteer sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma, faces a manslaughter charge in the death of an unarmed black man. Investigators say he intended to use his taser, not his gun. Elaine Quijano reports with details of Bates' history ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Pennsylvania farmer, 87, is thrown from tractor and crushed to death
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Business InsiderAt 28, Michael Adorno got fed up with his low-wage job at a pizzeria in Richmond Hill, Georgia, and decided to go to college. Adorno attended the for-profit Everest College , part of Corinthian Colleges Inc., in C...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Mashable!
Let the Apple ecosystem guesswork begin Apple officially announced the days and location for its 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will be held June 8 through June 12 at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center. The ann... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.10 Things to Know for Today
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoStock futures changed little Tuesday after J.P. Morgan and other big banks released first quarter earnings. Photo: Getty
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comRussia said Tuesday that it would be at least six months before it could deliver the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran, but the Kremlin confirmed that a barter deal to supply Russian goods in exchange for Iranian oil was already b...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comAn assistant to Kim Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, says the couple paid an early morning visit to a Crusader-era church marking the traditional spot of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldA jihadist fighter slits a man’s throat, another brandishes a severed head spiked on his rifle while more militants dump bodies into a trench overflowing with corpses. This is how painter Ammar Salim depicts the massacres the Islam...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from GawkerMere months after she found your lost $4,700 check , Sarah Jessica Parker, human lost and found for whom shopping is cardio, has found your pay stub. Would you like to know how much you earned and how much was taxed, or should Sarah Jess...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comChildren in Sierra Leone returned to schools on Tuesday after staying at home for nine months because of the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 10,000 mostly in West Africa. … Click to Continue »
- By George Friedman "Empire" is a dirty word. Considering the behavior of many empires, that is not unreasonable. But empire is also simply a description of a condition, many times unplanned and rarely intended. It is a condition that ari...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comIndian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj: 'We have evacuated our embassy staff from Yemen today' - @SushmaSwaraj
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldNorth Korea’s first lady has appeared in public for the first time this year as part of celebrations marking the birthday of the country’s founding leader Kim Il-Sung, state media said Tuesday. A grinning Ri Sol-Ju, wearing w...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comTrading halted for Zillow shares after online real estate company guides sharply below estimates - @CNBCnow
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comIMF forecasts 'moderate' global growth in bi-annual report, with lower projections for emerging and developing economies - @BBCBusiness
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Digg Top Stories*Larry Wilmore brilliantly points of the similarities between our political hopefuls and the many factions of Westeros; thankfully our political process involves somewhat less murder.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoCan Sen. Marco Rubio, as part of the new generation of the GOP, compete with his mentor Jeb Bush for big money in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination? Photo: Getty
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldBoko Haram has kidnapped at least 2,000 women and girls since the beginning of last year, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, a year on from the mass abduction of 219 Nigerian schoolgirls. The kidnapping of the teenagers from Chibok, ...
- Have we forgotten what selling is really about? There is hope, says David Amerland...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from stories: WorldWASHINGTON (AP) - In a direct challenge to the White House, a Senate committee is to vote on a bill that would give Congress a chance to weigh in on any final nuclear agreement that can be reached with Iran. Despite a veto threat from Pr...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comBeware! Chimp Tushi at the Dutch Burgers' Zoo is a real drone-buster. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comUS House Speaker John Boehner raises $5.4 million in 1st quarter of 2015 - @JakeSherman
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Voice of AmericaA Lebanese journalist and her television station go on trial Thursday in The Hague for allegedly interfering with the work of the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister by publ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA Sumatran elephant has been found dead in Indonesia's Aceh province with its tusks cut off, raising suspicion it was killed by poachers. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comPhoto: Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at an Equal Pay Day event; April 14 is estimated as the date women must work until during the year to make up for the pay gap with men - @LamontDC
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comBy the thousands, volunteers across the United States sign up to assist their local law enforcement agencies as reserve police officers and sheriff’s deputies. … Click to Continue »
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsNgozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the state of the Nigerian economy in the context of recent developments.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from International Business TimesThe $373.9 billion the United States spent on prescription drugs last year signified the largest increase in spending on medicines since 2001, a new study says. Specialty drugs, such as those for hepatitis C and multiple sclerosis, were ...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comBritish conservationist Sir David Attenborough, radio series 'Afropop Worldwide' named as 2014 Peabody Award winners - @PeabodyAwards
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe jury in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has begun its sixth day of deliberations. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesCan high intelligence be a burden rather than a boon?
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- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoNokia, Intel and iShares China are among today's stocks to watch. Photo: Getty
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comDrones will be banned for 1st time along the Boston Marathon course this year - @BostonGlobe
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comStocks are edging higher in early trading as U.S. company earnings begin to come in. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe battle over a Florida boy's circumcision has moved to federal court. … Click to Continue »
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesDefying objections from church and state alike, the men of one small Italian village carry on an 800-year-old tradition, one vicious self-inflicted wound at a time.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsExperts discuss the post-election outlook for the state of Nigeria.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comFederal and county prosecutors are investigating the October fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer of a teenager who authorities say was wielding a knife, and the city says it will pay his family $5 million to preclude any legal act...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comUS stocks open higher after after hot retail report, bank earnings - @MarketsTicker
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldThe United States voiced concern Monday about the possible sale of sophisticated Russian air defense missiles to Iran after Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted a ban on such shipments. US Secretary of State John Kerry raised Washingt...
- It was inevitable that with the advent of curved TVs, there’d have to be curved soundbars to match. Samsung’s HW-J8500, HW-J7500, HW-J6500, and HW-J6000 are exactly that, curved to match Samsung’s Curved LCDs. Here’s a preview.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesNew research suggests that martyrs are created, not from alienation, but from a passionate desire to believe and belong.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Jewish Telegraphic Agency » United StatesJulio Acevedo was speeding through the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when the BMW he was driving plowed into a livery cab that was transporting Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, to the hospital to deliver their first baby.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsA better way forward in the Middle East.
- Social Security is far more complicated than most people realize. In fact, it is so complicated that even PhD economists are losing tens of thousands of dollars because they don’t know how to maximize the benefits the system owes them. A...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Salon.comThe acclaimed showrunner spoke out about the media's obsession with discussing onscreen diversity
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comNews reports say an Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway after landing in western Japan and about 20 passengers received minor injuries. … Click to Continue »
- The official unemployment rate is more a measure of labor market disequilibrium than of labor markets strength or weakness. As economists and policy makers search for alternative measures of labor market strength, the picture gets confus...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Bloomberg PoliticsA Florida friendship in the spotlight.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comBoston Marathon bombing trial Judge O'Toole instructs jurors not to attend 2015 Boston Marathon or any memorial events related to bombings' anniversary - @gailwaterhouse
- It's been said that money can't buy you happiness. It turns out it has similarly little affect on whether an employee feels their work makes a positive change in the world.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Voice of AmericaGermany's defense minister said on Tuesday that nobody should underestimate NATO's rapid response capacity, which has been ratcheted up in response to worries about Russia's military ambitions after its actions in Ukraine. Germany's Ursu...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from U.S. NewsCANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government is ramping up pressure on parents who oppose vaccination by threatening to withhold welfare payments from families that fail to immunize their children.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Uploads by The Young TurksOfficer Slager Laughs About Adrenaline Rush After Walter Scott Shooting "The police officer who killed Walter Scott in South Carolina laughed about the adrenaline rush he was feeling, in a conversation that offers a new insight into...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentHyperbole, thy name is Democrat.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldMac Margolis, Bloomberg View Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's fieriest authors, died Monday at 74, after a long bout with lung cancer. But the Uruguyan writer, who did with prose what Ernesto "Che" Guevara did with a bandoleer and...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentBlogger has history of accusing Republicans of having affairs
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsNEW YORK (AP) — Awards nights are usually reserved for showstopping gowns, but it one swoop, Robin Wright resisted the norm in a backless Ralph...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesShe says "to have that label put on him, that really upset me."
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldAlicia Chavy, Global Risk Insights Replacing Brazil as a potential regional leader and as a viable destination for successful businesses, the Andean country has become the go-to-market of Latin America. However, with recent political sca...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsMONACO (AP) — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic strolled into the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-1, 6-4 win over qualifier Albert...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldOmar Ashour, Project Syndicate LONDON – The framework nuclear agreement that Iran and the P-5 (China, Britain, France, Russia, and the United States) plus Germany recently reached represents progress on one major security challenge in th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldGaleano's 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America was a fierce critique of U.S. and European imperialism. It made him an enemy of the right-wing governments that ruled much of Latin America at the time.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from ProPublica: Articles and Investigationsby Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with USA Today . As the privacy officer for The Advisory Board Co., Rebecca Fayed knows a thing or two about privacy and what can happen when it’s violated. But when Fayed received a ...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Daily DotIf you don't know Katie Nolan, she's outstanding on these topics. Especially if it comes at the price of her employer.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesIndiana has produced a revised version of the bill that lawmakers said addressed the concerns about discrimination.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldPascal-Emmanuel Gobry, NYT PARIS — France is in the throes of a unique cultural moment — one that stretches way beyond the soul-searching debates over Islamist violence and Muslim integration, or arguments over its economic t...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsBERLIN (AP) — Whatever caused small space rocks to lump together billions of years ago, magnetism is unlikely to be the reason.Scientists said...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesFormer Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney co-founded the company.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldSimon Shuster, Time Having survived an assassin's bullet, a revolution and a war, Gennady Kernes now faces a fight over Ukraine's constitution
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationP-22, as the mountain lion is known, typically lives in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. Attempts to dislodge him from under the home have failed.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from U.S. NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he'll visit South Dakota, his 50th state, next month.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldM. Minakov, Moscow Times Ukrainian civil society has become something of a paradox over the past year. Following former President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster in February 2014, civil society organizations successfully guided the country th...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesThe bill is set for a 2:15 p.m. committee vote, where it is widely expected to pass.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesThe moderate Democratic senator commissions a poll showing him easily winning back his old job.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Democracy Now!
One of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano, died on Monday at age 74 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Uruguayan novelist and journalist made headlines when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez gave President Obama a copy of hi... - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The parents of a Vermont woman who died last year have sued Botox maker Allergan, saying treatment of her cerebral palsy...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Daily KosBlast from the Past . At Daily Kos on this date in 2013 — Obama, Democrats, privacy organizations still opposed to CISPA : The White House hasn't actually issued a veto threat over the current House efforts to revive last year's dis...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldIt's been one year since Islamist extremists abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls from their dormitory in northeastern Nigeria. Some managed to escape, but 219 remain missing.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Uploads by The Young Turks65-Year-Old Woman Is Pregnant With Quadruplets In Berlin "A 65-year-old Berlin woman who already has 13 children is pregnant again with quadruplets, Germany's RTL broadcaster reported Sunday. The Russian and English teacher'...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsNEW YORK (AP) — It's taken six years for Matthew Morrison to get back on Broadway so it's no surprise he knows a thing or two about where he ended...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from WashingtonExaminer.com RSS - politicsBecket Adams Citation matters. A Huffington Post senior editor has been accused of lifting material from Media Matters, a far-left pro-Hillary Clinton group. "No question about it: I should have included a link to the Media Matters story...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldNews reports from Iran say Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian will be tried for espionage, 10 months after his arrest. Renee Montagne talks to Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldThe GOP still has the health care law in its sights, but now also promises to do away with Obama's opening to Cuba and nascent deal on nuclear development with Iran.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldDana Milbank, Washington Post A week ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) went on television and proposed abandoning the nuclear deal just reached with Iran and returning to the 2013 interim agreement that started the talks. “What I w...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsNEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were broadly lower in early trading Tuesday as investors reacted to mixed corporate earnings. JPMorgan Chase rose...
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Daily DotNow you can rule Westeros from the water closet.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationCancer treatment is increasingly expensive, even for patients who have insurance. Some doctors advocate discussing the costs of cancer treatment as they would hair loss, pain or other side effects.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationThe name "Clinton" remains magic for many Americans who got jobs, bought homes and invested savings in the 1990s. But key elements of "Clintonomics" may not be popular with today's Democratic voters.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment'Historical influences that allow sexism to continue'
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldFor all the unique "Asian-ness" of K-pop, many of its stars are American-born and raised. And now that K-pop's gone global, Asian American artists are more at home than ever.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses increased their stockpiles by a moderate amount in February although total business sales were weak for a...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Christianpost.com > WorldA global evangelical group joined leaders from the Roman Catholic Church and other religious denominations in an event at the United Nations to declare that nuclear weapons are contrary to faith, morality and reason, and to call for a ba...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesThey also maintain that Carson will do better among minorities than the other GOP contenders.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Global Voices OnlineHundreds of people have been reportedly killed in fighting in Yemen since Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign against the country on March 26. Backed by its Gulf Arab allies, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Pakistan, Saudi Arabia...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldOver the weekend, 4,750 ukulele players traveled from all over French Polynesia to Tahiti to play "Bora Bora E." The attempt is being verified to see if the record was broken
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Global Voices Online
Some Jamaicans weren't so keen to see authorities falling over themselves to make Jamaica Obama-ready. - Monday, April 13, 2015 from Roll Call: Daily NewsMarco Rubio's presidential campaign announcement speech included inspirational parts of his life story, the outline of a governing agenda and one flat-out error that appears to be a clumsy Prince reference.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RealClearWorldSalman Rushdie, New Yorker In 1982, when I was in Hamburg for the publication of the German translation of “Midnight’s Children,” I was asked by my publishers if I would like to meet Gnter Grass. Well, obviously I wante...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsLOS ANGELES (AP) — A mountain lion certainly is acting like the Los Angeles celebrity he is: lounging under a home and refusing to be handled by...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsCLEVELAND (AP) — A mass of bricks fell nine stories from the facade of a vacant building in downtown Cleveland, crushing a minivan that was parked...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Top StoriesRepublicans are readying a familiar template: An out-of-touch plutocrat.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from RT - USAMore than 400 people have spent two years in Rikers without ever being convicted – a problem New York’s mayor plans to address by shrinking the population by 25 percent over the next 10 years, The New York Times reported. Read Full Artic...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - US & CanadaUS retail sales rose 0.9% in March - the first increase for four months - helped by spending on cars, furniture, clothing and building materials.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from RT - USAA former military aide to three different presidential administrations is under federal investigation for allegedly defrauding foreign investors out of nearly $16 million while promising to expedite their acquisition of US Green Cards. R...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedThe women were freed Monday under a form of conditional release that keeps the investigation open for another year and still allows for formal charges to be brought later
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSSA Carson Air cargo plane with two pilots aboard was flying from Vancouver to Prince George, B.C., but was lost shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | World NewsPrime Minister Stephen Harper has announced a new mission for Canadian Forces to train Ukrainian soliders and military police. Defence Minister Jason Kenney and Chief of Defence Staff Tom Lawson are taking questions about the Canadian tr...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedThe Spokane Public Schools made the decision after a measles epidemic in which more than 150 people fell ill across the United States
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Global News : Canada
Montreal's Greek community is mourning the loss of its beloved Koimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church. - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedIn a report released Monday, the UN chief expressed ‘grave concern’ over sexual violence perpetrated by armed groups, including those promoting extremist ideologies
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - National RSS feedThe fire broke out at about 10:30 p.m. in the Koimisis Tis Theotokou Church
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Global News : Canada
The president of Beyond Borders, a Canadian organization that fights the sexual exploitation of children, is retiring. - Monday, April 13, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - National RSS feedCap-and-trade agreement comes ahead of premiers’ summit on climate change
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | CANADAOttawa says the move will assist the country’s troops in their battle with pro-Russian separatist forces.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedState’s famed Iowa caucuses are the first voting contests of the presidential election season
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | CANADANarendra Modi’s visit will be the first to Canada by an Indian prime minister since Indira Gandhi stopped by in 1973.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.(Reuters) - A California police officer was put on administrative leave after he "manipulated" the body of a man who had been shot dead by police, including tickling the man's feet and attempting to open his mouth, according to officials...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSThe airport worker's shift started early, at 5 a.m., and ended with an unfortunate nap in the cargo hold of a departing Alaska Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | World NewsNigeria's President-elect Muhammadu Buhari vowed on Tuesday to make every effort to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants a year ago but admitted it was not clear whether they would ever be found.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.(Reuters) - Missouri was preparing on Tuesday to execute a man convicted of attacking his former wife over child support payments and killing her friend as his lawyers exhausted several avenues of appeal.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - US & CanadaA white police officer is charged with manslaughter after shooting a black man when apparently mistaking his gun for his Taser.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | Canadian NewsPrime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Jason Kenney will announce today that Canadian troops are headed to Ukraine to join in U.S. and British forces in helping train the Ukraine military.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from North America NewsUS Republican Senator Marco Rubio says he is part of a new era of American leadership, drawing attention to his youth as he runs for president.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - Canada - Public RSSOne of Canada's new Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships will be named after a nurse who was in the Royal Canadian Navy.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | World NewsA U.S. Department of Transportation committee will hear testimony starting today about health and safety concerns raised by airlines' push to get more seats on passenger aircraft. Seats are getting narrower, thinner and some say much les...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from North America NewsUS Republican Senator Marco Rubio is set to officially launch his campaign for the 2016 presidential race.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - National RSS feedDecision on constitutionality of mandatory minimum terms for firearm possession expected to reflect top court’s take on Ottawa’s crime agenda
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.ATLANTA (Reuters) - Time behind bars could be limited for 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted of racketeering in a nationally watched test cheating scandal, after they were urged by a judge to consider plea deals ahead of...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.(Reuters) - A New York City man was sentenced to a prison term of 25 years to life on Monday over a fatal 2013 hit-and-run car crash that killed a young Orthodox Jewish family, prosecutors said.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from North America NewsPolice have charged a woman who accidentally dropped her two-year-old son into a cheetah pit at a US zoo.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma prosecutors charged a sheriff's reserve deputy with second-degree manslaughter on Monday in the fatal shooting of a black man this month in Tulsa, the most recent in a series of U.S. cases that have rai...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Global News : Canada
The downtown business improvement district wants Saskatoon to update bylaws to deal with aggressive panhandlers. - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.NEW YORK (Reuters) - The municipal bankruptcies in Detroit and Stockton, California, may foretell more widespread problems in the United States than is implied by current bond ratings, a top Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Global News : Canada
Recent dry weather has prompted the Delisle Fire Department to issue a fire ban for the RMs of Vanscoy and Montrose until further notice. - Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | Canadian NewsThere are currently fewer people working in manufacturing than at any time in the nearly 40-year history of the modern Labour Force Survey. Economists says that shows Canada is indeed suffering from Dutch disease, though the government d...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from BBC News - US & CanadaA scientific notebook compiled by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing sells for $1m in New York.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CNEWS Canada
A judge ordered a Montreal mechanic to pay his ex-girlfriend $32,000 in damages for secretly taping them having sex, Le Soleil reports. - Monday, April 13, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - National RSS feedEducational institutions across the country plan to help Prime Minister Modi reach his goal of matching skills with jobs
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSDefence lawyers are vowing to appeal the convictions of four former Blackwater security guards after a federal judge handed down lengthy prison terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - National RSS feedWitnesses and mother of Justin Hudson say he explained his appearance that night was due to having been in a fight
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | World NewsA man who Marion (Suge) Knight ran over told authorities he was mad at the former rap music mogul and punched him through the window of the truck before an encounter that left his friend dead.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | World NewsIndia's "rock star" prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been on something of a world tour — the U.S., Germany, France and now Canada. But while he's been widely feted, there are still aspects of the Modi revolution that need sharper answe...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.BOSTON (Reuters) - Jurors hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial are barred from attending this year’s race, a federal judge told the panel on Tuesday as part of instructions ahead of the trial's sentencing phase.
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired physician Ben Carson, considered a potential Republican presidential contender, plans a major announcement on May 4 in Detroit, CNN reported on Monday, citing his spokeswoman.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSA woman accused of dumping her quadriplegic son in the woods so she could spend the week with her out-of-state boyfriend was hospitalized Monday for a third day in Maryland while Philadelphia police awaited her release to arrest her.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSSyrian militants, including members of al Qaeda's local branch, attacked a government intelligence centre in the northern city of Aleppo, damaging much of the building by blowing up a tunnel under it, activists said Tuesday.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from RT - USAThe NSA is implementing a huge migration to custom-designed cloud architecture it says will revolutionize internal security and protect against further leaks by data analysts with unfettered access to classified information. Read Full Ar...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | Canadian NewsIndia's "rock star" prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been on something of a world tour — the U.S., Germany, France and now Canada. But while he's been widely feted, there are still aspects of the Modi revolution that need sharper answe...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.NEW YORK (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways Corp , the fifth biggest U.S. airline by passengers carried, consistently cancels flights sooner than rivals when storms pummel the U.S. Northeast, a tactic that may help its customers reach destinati...
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police on Tuesday were hunting for a man who hid inside a women's bathroom at a bar and raped a woman inside one of its stalls.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015 from CBC | Canadian NewsTwo female researchers tasked with helping to recognize the top scientists in the country have stepped down from their duties to protest lack of recognition for other women in the field.
