- Friday, April 17, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
A car bomb exploded on Friday outside the U.S. Consulate in the Iraqi city of Erbil, a State Department official told NBC News. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S."He said if I ever tried to take his daughter away from him, that he would kill me," Amanda Casey told ABC News??? "20/20" of former husband Michael Wilkie.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalThe explosion took place in the northern part of the country.
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Iowans wanted to see her up close, but that didn't happen. When Hillary Clinton unsurprisingly announced that she would run for president earlier this week, she said she wanted to start small. While hitting the road in Iowa, her fir... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Mashable!
BASALT, Colorado — One cannabis grow in Colorado is setting the bar very high. Puns aside, marijuana may be legal in the state of Colorado, but that doesn't mean that all plants are grown with equal care. While visiting the state, ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.The 23-year-old suspect appeared before a judge today.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlines"You must believe me," the reserve deputy said. "It can happen to anyone."
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.On New Year???s Day in 2012, Shelby Wilkie, a new mother, vanished, leaving her baby behind.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderWhether it's a friend, business partner or a spouse, relationships are difficult to maintain year after year. Barbara Corcoran of ABC's "Shark Tank" tells us that it takes a little more than sexual attraction in marriages and a little m...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderJohannesburg (AFP) - Countries neighbouring South Africa on Friday prepared to evacuate their citizens from South Africa as the UN raised the alarm over deadly xenophobic attacks which have displaced thousands. The anti-foreigner violenc...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from CNN.comA former top deputy to Saddam Hussein, branded the "King of Clubs" by the U.S., and more recently a key figure in Sunni extremist groups battling the Iraqi government, has been killed, Iraqi TV says.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comAIDS virus continues to spread as state tries emergency measures to stop it
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderApproximately 1.9 million students in the US will graduate from college with a bachelor's degree this year. And a good number of them will apply to jobs using résumés riddled with mistakes. According to research from Th...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostThe U.N. agency that oversees the naming of hurricanes removed the name "Isis" from its list of future storms, an act seen as an attempt to ward away the stigma of the extremist Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS.Read full articl...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderIBM chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty is a sucessful role model to many people —especially when they learn that her childhood was somewhat difficult. Rometty openly talks about growing up and says her mother is her "hero." Her parents...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderRome (AFP) - Emotions were running high in Italy Friday as the country struggled to cope with a new influx of migrants amid "worrying" allegations of clashes between Muslim and Christian refugees on a boat. More than 11,000 migrants have...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesDefense attorney Sam Shamansky says his client, Syrian-trained terror suspect Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, speaks outside of an Ohio courtroom Friday about his client. Mohamud is suspected of wanting to help the terrorist group Al-Nusrah Fr...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comPolice say the shooting may have stemmed from a road rage incident; family says 1-year-old girl is brain dead
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For years, we've been trying to figure out where Scott Forstall , Apple's former senior vice-president of iOS, had gone since leaving the company in 2012. Admittedly, we didn't expect the answer to be Broadway. You remember Forstall. He ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Ky. authorities close to revealing details of whiskey theft in world's bourbon-making hub
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalA car bomb was detonated outside the U.S. embassy in Erbil, Iraq, in the northern part of the country.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.AP Was There: 20 years later, the original AP dispatch reporting Oklahoma City bombing
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comFederal indictment says Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud left the country a year ago to train and fight with terrorists in Syria
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderTired of ending every month in the hole with no idea where your hard-earned money went? It may be time to re-evaluate your spending. In a recent Reddit thread, users shared their best tips for quickly and easily spending less money . The...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comRobert Bates, charged in fatal shooting of Eric Harris, goes on national TV to counter criticisms of his qualifications
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe Associated Press, citing one of its reporters at the scene, reported that the blast set nearby cars on fire.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
The first two teaser trailers, while short on plot and character details, have prominently featured a new character called Rey played by actress Daisy Ridley. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from NYT > U.S.After 24 hours of silence, Hillary Rodham Clinton weighed in on perhaps the most divisive issue before the Democratic Party, setting her conditions for accepting a new trade deal making its way to Congress but not flat out rejecting it.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderSarajevo (AFP) - A dozen Bosnian chefs claimed Friday they set a new record for the world's largest stew, outperforming their fellow countrymen's 2014 achievement. They worked from dawn at Sarajevo Square, with scores of onlookers joinin...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Mashable!
In states where it's now legal for recreational use, marijuana and video games go together like hamburgers and bacon. You can thoroughly enjoy one without the other, but man do they go well together (or so we're told). With the help of t... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top News and AnalysisAs the 21st century's biggest fight looms, boxing's biggest stars face challenges new to the sport.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comA baby echidna is recovering at an Australian zoo after being injured when a bulldozer destroyed its home. CBSN's Meg Oliver and Vladimir Duthiers have more.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.McVeigh defense documents show Oklahoma City bomber was disappointed building didn't collapse
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National: Breaking National News & Headlines - Washington PostTRENTON, N.J. — In his “tell-it-like-it-is” tour of New Hampshire this week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the country needs a president who isn’t afraid to be honest about the tough fiscal choices needed to overhaul entitlement pr...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.NC police charge man for making telephone threats to community college days after killing
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comBranch widely seen as network's most lethal franchise takes dozens of tanks, rocket launchers and small arms
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
The administration faced stiff odds in swaying a conservative-leaning appeals court to lift the freeze placed on the president’s sweeping executive actions. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Police: Man killed 2 brothers, mom, sister-in-law over business fight before killing himself
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comMigraines can be debilitating for many people, especially those who suffer from what are known as neck migraines. But a new treatment approach may help. Dr. Max Gomez reports from New York.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Michelle Obama, Jill Biden visit veterans center to highlight support for service members
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When a man tumbled onto the tracks at a downtown Philadelphia subway station, one passenger leaped into action. See also: 'Beenado': Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on Seattle highway Surveillance video shows Alfred McNamee wal... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
"It's gone too far," the president said. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud pleaded not guilty in federal court today. He is accused of training with terrorists in Syria and returning to the U.S. to launch an attack on military personnel.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US News: CBSnews.comProsecutors say New York dental office manager Valbona Yzeiraj treated unsuspecting patients when the real dentist was out of the office. Some patients suffered serious complications. CBS2’s Dick Brennan reports.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalCanadian military charges 4 British Navy sailors with sexual assault in Nova Scotia
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Business InsiderIt was an ugly day for global stock markets. The Dow briefly wiped away all its gains for the year with nearly all 30 stocks closing negative. European and Asian stocks also got crushed. First the scoreboard: Dow: 17,826, -280, (-1...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostOne of Latin America's darkest Cold War-era crimes is being reopened in Florida, where a U.S. judge has allowed a lawsuit to go forward against a former Chilean officer accused of torturing and murdering folk singer Victor Jara in 1973.R...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: U.S.A Los Angeles water supervisor spends a day policing the community.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalIraqi government officials confirm the death of Saddam Hussein's top senior official, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was killed in an operation outside Tikrit, Iraq.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesTen physicians are demanding Columbia University to boot TV star Dr. Mehmet Oz whom they deem guilty of misleading and endangering the public.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesIt’s a first comic book treatment for "Sharknado," but far from the first crossover of Archie and company, who have a long tradition of interacting with other properties.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from GawkerA deli owner claims the backlash against the “white history month” sign he displayed in his store window during March has put him out of business. So he’s following in the footsteps of that anti-gay-marriage pizza place by asking for mon...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from GawkerA semitruck full of boxes of honeybees rolled over on a highway in Lynnwood, Washington early Friday morning. Can you imagine? A semitruck full of boxes of honeybees, rolling over on a highway, of all places? Well, be(e)lieve it! Read mo...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsExperts discuss the progress of women’s rights around the world.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoPotomac Watch Columnist Kim Strassel on how the GOP primary and the American people would benefit from the return of the bold Senate candidate. Photo: Assoicated Press
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The WeekPresident Obama is fed up with the congressional stalemate over Loretta Lynch's confirmation vote to be the next attorney general. Despite receiving bipartisan support as the nominee, Lynch has been waiting 160 days to be confirmed — twi...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comAppellate judges will consider whether to lift a temporary hold imposed by a federal judge in Texas on President Barack Obama’s executive action seeking to shield millions of immigrants from deportation. … Click to Continue »
- There is an assault on public health and environmental integrity underway in the Texas Legislature right now that’s the worst I’ve seen in my twenty-something years as an environmental advocate. The Texas Legislature is currently conside...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comReport: 4 British sailors charged with sexual assault that allegedly took place at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater in Nova Scotia, sources tell @CTVnews
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesHow do you rebuild a brand, brick by brick? In the case of Lego, it was about bringing the outside in, ushering the company into a new era of content, co-creation and listening. Katie McQuater explores the brand’s transformation from bre...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Gawker"It's time for us to be intolerant—intolerant of all forms of homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of bigotry against LBGT people," writes journalist/ SiriusXM host Michaelangelo Signorile in his new book, It's Not Over: Gettin...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comAfter receiving tens of thousands of complaints about noise from planes and helicopters shuttling the rich and famous into the Hamptons, an eastern Long Island town has passed new laws aimed at curtailing the cacophony. … Click to ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsA better way forward in the Middle East.
- Here are the seven Dow stocks that reported quarterly results this week and how they are trading.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comUnder pressure from an expanding number of cheaper online video services, the long-dominant bundle of channels offered by cable companies is becoming a bit more flexible. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comU.S. stocks are broadly lower in afternoon trading Friday following steep declines in Europe. Investors are worried that Greece may default on its debt and exit the eurozone. Shares of several big U.S. companies, including American Expre...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comUpdate: Paulding County, Ga., sheriff's spokesman says a woman struck 3 adults, 2 infants with car outside courthouse; 2 adults have significant injuries, infants not injured - @ajc
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from WSJ Live VideoBusiness World Columnist Holman Jenkins Jr. discusses the company’s subscriber growth and impressive earnings. Photo: Getty Images
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Yahoo! News - Latest News & HeadlinesBy Isabel Coles ERBIL (Reuters) - A car bomb killed three people on Friday outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, a ally of Washington in the war against Islamic State, which claimed the attack....
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comSources: European Central Bank examines scenario in which Greece runs out of money and pays civil servants with IOUs - @Reuters
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comESPN suspended reporter Britt McHenry on Thursday after a video surfaced of her insulting a towing company clerk's intelligence, job and appearance. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Uploads by msnbcWatch: ESPN's Britt McHenry Insults Towing Company Employee | msnbc ESPN Reporter Britt McHenry has been suspended for one week after a video emerged of her insulting a towing company employee. » Subscribe to msnbc: http://on.m...
- As you approach, you'd swear that you're about to encounter Johnny Depp who has just slipped for his next role into a Day of the Dead-inspired costume. In a glass case before you, an ominous looking piece of headgear is topped with a sma...
- Fans have been treated to a whole host of new information, gameplay footage, and screenshots from today's Star Wars: Battlefront announcement. The game launches on November 17th. You can watch the first trailer here. The game looks terri...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comBritish prosecutors drop a case against ex-Murdoch editor Andy Coulson who was charged with making illegal payments to public officials - @guardian
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comJason Warnock's attempt to be an anonymous hero worked out in part. The hero part. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaAn imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist has been given an annual award that recognizes an imprisoned writer who exercised the right to free expression. The PEN American Center’s 2015 award has been given to Khadija Ismayilova, who investiga...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has launched his harshest criticism yet of Saudi Arabia, blaming the kingdom for the spread of extremist ideology in the Muslim world and the killing of civilians in Yemen. … Click t...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesOh you carve pumpkins? Go home to chumpville.
- Yesterday, Forbes reported on The Companies Hiring Most Right Now, and found that the bulk of the listed job openings required tech skills, even those in industries like healthcare and financial services. To get a sense of which companie...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The WeekNo, we're not talking about beer goggles here. Precious, the new beverage offered by Suntory, contains 2 grams of collagen per can. Often an ingredient in anti-aging beauty products, collagen is a protein found in connective tissues th...
- When Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) report quarterly results on Thursday, an awful lot of attention will be paid to Amazon's segment breakout. For the first time, the online retailer will disclose the segment result...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaThousands more migrants have arrived on the southern shores of Italy from North Africa in the past two days. Authorities say they expect the total number of arrivals this year to far exceed previous levels; and the government has said mi...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com1:15 p.m. (EDT) … Click to Continue »
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsMikhail Kasyanov discusses Russia's relations with the United States, the fallout following the murder of Boris Nemtsov, and potential developments between Russia and Ukraine.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaInternational health officials say just two capsules a day of Vitamin A reduces the chance of a child dying by 22%. Children without iodine lose 13 IQ points and stay one year less in school. Efforts to promote child health support vitam...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Breaking News - breakingnews.comSources: US Justice Department leaning against approving Comcast-TWC merger - @BloombergNews
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Salon.comAdvice for the HBO host: "Do not assume Arabs = Muslims and Muslims = Arabs. Do not use them interchangeably."
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from GawkerA New Hampshire-bound Southwest Airlines flight was forced to return to the terminal Thursday at Chicago’s Midway Airport before takeoff to remove a woman “poking her seatmate with a pen to stop him from snoring.” Read more...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaZimbabweans are calling on President Jacob Zuma’s government to quickly contain xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Zimbabweans may make up the highest number of foreign nationals in South Africa - estimated at about 3 million. On Friday...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaA look at the best news photos from around the world.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Yahoo! News - Latest News & HeadlinesBy David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A man apparently upset over a family business dispute "snapped" before fatally shooting his two brothers, his mother and his sister-in-law and then killing himself at a home in Phoenix, police said o...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe attorney for NFL prospect Jameis Winston said the lawsuit filed against the former Florida State University quarterback by a woman who says he raped her is "false" and a "stunt." … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaLike many people, Bree Britt dreamed of starting her own business. But unlike many people, the 16-year-old didn’t wait till she grew up to become an entrepreneur. She’s already launched her own business. Bree may not have the experience,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Jewish Telegraphic Agency » United StatesBrothers Joel Israel, 34, and Aaron Israel, 37, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud, burglary, grand larceny, submitting false documents and unlawful eviction, among others.
- Would you pay $8000 for a limited edition Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge?
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Voice of AmericaWe’re tallying the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending April 18, 2015. The chart gets all shook up this week…but nothing really changes. Let’s open in fifth place, where Ed Sheeran dr...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Digg Top StoriesGrowing up on New York’s Long Island, Jim Hagedorn would watch TV and see reports of marijuana busts. In the background, he’d sometimes spot bags of Miracle-Gro, the garden fertilizer invented by his father, Horace.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Democracy Now!
In Louisiana, former prosecutor Marty Stroud has met with former death row prisoner Glenn Ford to apologize to him for wrongfully charging him with murder. After 30 years in prison, Ford was released from death row last year after the st... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsSAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's troubled state-owned oil company says it will reveal its estimate on how much it lost in a sweeping kickback scheme when...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldEnrique Oti, War on the Rocks The Chinese government is scared of the Internet. They are scared of the foreign ideas that it brings into China; they are scared of how it enables the Chinese people to spread knowledge about government cor...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldDhruva Jaishankar, GMF WASHINGTON - Diplomatically speaking, it has been a busy first year in power for India's prime minister, Narendra Modi. In addition to hosting the leaders of the United States, China, and Russia, he has embarked up...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesHe says sanctions will be re-implemented if Iran cheats.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldSteven Swinford, Telegraph Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is asked four times whether he will rule out a deal with the SNP but fails to do so.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldHugh White, Lowy Interpreter For a long time American (and Australian) thinking about China has been dominated by a broad consensus that, despite many signs of growing assertiveness, Beijing does not pose a fundamental challenge to US le...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Mondoweiss
Imagine stepping out of your house of worship and seeing a group of screaming, belligerent hecklers ripping apart your holy book – spitting on and stomping on the pages. Imagine being shouted down, and told your faith is a lie by a group... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldPhilippe Le Corre, Brookings All the controversy on the Russian celebration of the end of World War II has obscured the similarly problematic role of such events in Asia. Indeed, at a recent roundtable among think-tankers and government ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldThe financial "screens" went dark for several hours during trading in London and Asia causing, among other disruptions, a delay in a British government debt issue.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldThe Vatican took over the Leadership Conference of Women Religious three years ago claiming the group undermined Catholic teaching while promoting "certain radical feminist themes."
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RollingStone.com: PoliticsAs social media erupted earlier this week with news that Hillary Clinton was spotted at a Chipotle, the department she used to head quietly approved a massive weapons sale to a U.S. ally whose military has a long record of human rights a...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Democracy Now!
NBC News is at the center of a new controversy, this time focused on its chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel. Back in 2012 he and five other members of an NBC News team were kidnapped by armed gunmen in Syria. They were held for fi... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesObamacare, which Rubio wants to repeal, covers 1.6 million in Florida alone.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationWe highlight a 160-mile cycling race, reminiscences of an interview with the Oklahoma City bomber, the Finnish prison system, the nuclear deal with Iran, and the meaning of calling someone "trash."
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsPORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Protesters in kayaks greeted a rig that could be used for oil drilling in the Arctic as it arrived Friday in Washington...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent News(Reuters) - Jordan Spieth shook off the Masters hangover that hounded him during his opening round by firing a nine-under 62 on Friday to...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldPatrick Barkham, Guardian While researching his new book about our relationship with the coast, Patrick Barkham walked hundreds of miles of National Trust land. Here he chooses some of his favourite lesser-known spots.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldPeter Martin, Foreign Affairs The relationship between China and India will be one of the most important of this century. Their interactions will help to determine the future of globalization, international institutions, and U.S. power. ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MondoweissPalestinian Prisoner Day should be understood as a day of global solidarity for all indigenous peoples' freedom and self-determination living under settler colonialism because indigenous peoples are the primary target of the prison indus...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from PoliticsHillary Clinton (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Hillary Clinton has backed NAFTA-style “free-trade” agreements and she has opposed NAFTA-style “free-trade” agreements. Like other prominent Democrats, she has been in...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Christianpost.com > WorldTwo masked gunmen on motorcycles, believed to be Muslim, open fired on the campus of a Pakistani Catholic school in Lahore Friday morning, injuring one Christian student and two security guards.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationThe coffee on the International Space Station is about to get much better. The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule linked up with the station Friday morning, bringing a long-awaited ISSpresso machine.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Democracy Now!
We speak with New Orleans-based artist Jackie Sumell about her collaboration with former prisoner and Black Panther, Herman Wallace. As Democracy Now! reported in October of 2013, Wallace died just days after his conviction was overturne... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is about to change the way its influential search engine recommends websites on smartphones in a shift that's expected...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Democracy Now!Lawmakers Reach Deal to Give Obama TPP Fast-Track Authority, Iraqi Forces Retake Towns Near Oil Refinery from ISIL, Al-Qaeda Gains Ground in South Yemen; U.N. Envoy Resigns, WikiLeaks Publishes Full Database of Hacked Sony Emails, Muslim...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldThe U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says estimates for the number of internally displaced persons ranges from 120,000 to 150,000. Separately, Oxfam puts the figure at 121,000.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A reputed Connecticut mobster linked to artwork stolen from a Boston museum in 1990 was arrested Friday on a gun charge,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldAnthony Cordesman, CSIS The United States now faces a rapidly evolving world filled with new challenges at a time when real-world defense planning is focused on budget cuts, when U.S. "strategy" lacks plans and program budgets, and when ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesThe Department of Justice's antitrust division looks set to advise the Federal Communications Commission to block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger on the grounds that it would harm consumers, Bloomberg News reports.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesGriffin was appointed to the Senate in 1966, and went on to serve 12 years in the chamber.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Christianpost.com > WorldAt least 15 Muslim migrants have reportedly been arrested by Italian police after murdering and throwing overboard 12 other migrants, Christians from Ghana and Nigeria, who were all on a boat heading to Italy.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin America News DispatchBUENOS AIRES — The mysterious circumstances under which Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman died in January of an allegedly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head has spawned a number of theories that challenge the official nar...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Five commercial turkey farms in South Dakota have now been infected with a bird flu strain that's led to the deaths of...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldJ. Jones, Guardian il paintings are probably the only evidence not introduced by party spin doctors as they tried to claim victory for their leaders – even the ones who weren’t there – after last night’s BBC telev...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldAn influential figure in Spanish banking and politics, Rodrigo Rato was the predecessor of Dominique Strauss-Khan, who has also had extensive legal troubles.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldFerris-Rotman, Atlantic CLACTON-ON-SEA, England—In 1964, as Britain experienced an influx of Asian and African post-colonial immigrants, Conservative Party member Peter Griffiths was controversially elected to parliament, winning o...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top Stories"It should not always be partisan," Bush said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesThe confirmation saga for Lynch, first nominated in November, has dragged on for several reasons.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: NationHow certain words related to addictive behavior have shifted over the centuries — in 14 colorful charts.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldChina and India are each spending billions of dollars on infrastructure, especially hydroelectric dams, in Nepal. Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Donatella Lorch about what China and India want.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldEntrepreneurs are figuring out ways to make the world better without relying on charity. It's called social entrepreneurship, and its rising stars showed us how it works at a conference in Oxford.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Top StoriesThe former GOP senator notes his work with Clinton while she was secretary of state.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Mondoweiss
Having reported so sympathetically on Chagos Islanders' right of return, doesn't NPR have an obligation to report on Palestinians, expelled from their homeland 67 years ago? - Friday, April 17, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldDavid Greene talks to David Wessel about whether Greece will receive more loans in exchange for promises to overhaul its economy. Wessel is director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsCHICAGO (AP) — Kris Bryant had a Chicago Cubs-like start to his major league career.Called up one day after the team ensured he can't be eligible...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsDETROIT (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Robert Griffin, a Michigan Republican whose withdrawal of support hastened President Richard Nixon's resignation...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from RealClearWorldL. Secorun Palet, Ozy The history of piracy is full of clichs. Thanks to classics like Treasure Island and blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean, the word “pirate” still conjures the image of a rugged British man with an...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from ProPublica: Articles and Investigationsby Terry Parris Jr. and Annie Z. Yu h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Townhall's Most Recent NewsHAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland promised a thorough investigation Friday into the death of a man in custody after police shocked him...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalThe latest documents released by Wikileaks reveal some uncomfortable – yet unsurprising – truths about the relationship between Hollywood and the US Government. In its propaganda efforts against both Russia, the US State Department may h...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comAuthorities have removed five bodies from a north Phoenix home where a man shot and killed his two brothers, his mother and one of their wives before taking his own life. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsA jury is expected to begin deciding on Friday the fate of the 17-year-old Oklahoma boy who shot and killed Australian baseball player Chris Lane.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Seattle TimesWhen Sounders coach Sigi Schmid said yesterday that midfielder Cristian Roldan had an upcoming youth national team call-up coming soon, he didn’t specify that it would be this soon. On Friday, Roldan was one of 20 players called in...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Seattle TimesDENVER (AP) — Authorities say a dozen people were injured, including one seriously, after tour buses for two different bands were involved in a chain-reaction crash on a foggy stretch of highway east of Denver. The Colorado State Patrol ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comChicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett took an immediate leave of absence Friday amid a federal investigation over a $20.5 million no-bid contract the district awarded to a training academy where she once worked as a consultant,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsChildren have to learn how to rely on themselves, because Momma and Daddy are not always going to be there.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: WorldSAN FRANCISCO - Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk off the Northern California coast decades ago. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration located...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsAmerican CEO Dan Price will now earn less than 10 per cent of what he has been, after sacrificing his $US1 million salary to help pay for staff wage rises.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - News / NationalIt is a scenario that has played out dozens of times before: A restaurant bans loud kids and instantly finds themselves either lionized or vilified by opposing camps
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comUnder pressure from an expanding number of cheaper online video services, the long-dominant bundle of channels offered by cable companies is becoming a bit more flexible. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comHe was the last member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still on the run, depicted with his distinctive red moustache as the "king of clubs" on the U.S. military's deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqi regime fugitives. … Click to Con...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Tampabay.com RSS FeedST. PETERSBURG— After four decades, City Attorney John Wolfe will step down this summer, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced Friday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsNew laws decriminalising small amounts of marijuana have come into effect in Jamaica.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - News / NationalGordon Lownds shut down a stripper in a $2-million mansion next door to an exclusive gated community in Tampa after being hit with code violations
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: CanadaWASHINGTON - The Canadian government is working on a project that it hopes will revolutionize international development the way matchmaking websites revolutionized dating. Instead of bringing together love-starved singles, the project wo...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Seattle TimesA federal grand jury has indicted a South Seattle man and a Maple Valley couple in connection with two separate hash oil manufacturing operations.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsPolice dashcam video has captured an Arizona Police officer deliberately running down an armed man, with police arguing the actions probably saved the suspect's life.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » National
When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Global News : Canada
Canada’s largest model train show is pulling into Calgary this weekend. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Metro News » Canada
OTTAWA – The Conservative government plans to use the coming federal budget to underscore its pre-election messaging on the importance of national security. Sources tell The Canadian Press the budget is expected to earmark resource...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsSony Pictures has slammed whistleblower site WikiLeaks for publishing thousands of hacked documents from a 2014 cyber attack on the Hollywood studio.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National Post » CanadaThe note read 'go f--- yourself.' City is now looking into the issue as company that owns the vehicle holds multi-million dollar contracts
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: CanadaOTTAWA - "I'm sort of a short, fat, balding guy from a small town and so is Mike, so I think we kind of got along." — journalist Mark Bourrie on how he became friends with Mike Duffy in the 1990s.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: WorldCHICAGO - Cardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who played a key role in the church's response to the clergy sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 78. George, who retired as Chicago archbishop in the fall...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Winnipeg Free Press: CanadaHALIFAX - Four members of the Royal Navy have been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm at a Canadian Forces base in Halifax. Crown attorney Scott Morrison said Friday outside court that the men are alleged to have participate...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from US & World News - Sun SentinelFederal appeals judges on Friday peppered lawyers on both sides with questions in a fight over President Barack Obama's move to shield millions of immigrants from deportation.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsIn what is believed to be a first in the US, a Texas mother has given birth to five girls.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Metro News » Canada
OTTAWA – The latest emissions inventory from Environment Canada shows the country’s overall greenhouse gas output climbed 1.5 per cent from 2012 to 2013, continuing a slow but steady upward trend since the global recession of...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from National Post » Canada
It's Modi's turn to dance with the GST: His government plans to roll out a bold new national tax which it hopes will be in effect by April 1, 2016 - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comCardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who led the U.S. bishops' fight against Obamacare and played a key role in the church's response to the clergy sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 78. … Click...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A measles outbreak in California that began in December at the Disneyland and California Adventure theme parks and highlighted the risk of unvaccinated people becoming infected and spreading the disease has ended ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Nation & World News | The Kansas City Star & KansasCity.comGreece appealed to its European Union partners Friday for more help in policing its sea borders as immigrants increasingly make dangerous journeys to escape war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. … Click to Continue »
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » National
Canadian Conservatives who have launched a cheeky new billboard campaign in Ottawa are urging Tories to embrace their libertarian roots and legalize marijuana. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feedOne hundred years ago, members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force arrived in Folkestone, England, on their way to Shorncliffe
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Montreal Gazette » World
The bomb assembled at Los Alamos in New Mexico, and tested in 1945 at the “Trinity” site, was in fact a plutonium device. This was the prototype for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The Hiroshima bomb, in which subcritical masses of U-235 w... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsThe new Star Wars trailer has premiered at the annual 'Star Wars Celebration' fan convention near Los Angeles.
- Saturday, April 18, 2015 from North America NewsA prosecutor has told a jury that 17-year-old Chancey Luna devised a murder plan before shooting dead Australian Chris Lane.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Tampabay.com RSS FeedIn response to Tampa Bay Times' interview requests about bicycle tickets, Police Chief Jane Castor provided the following statement on April 10:
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Tampabay.com RSS FeedThe statement "Ninety percent of American workers don't own their own business."
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Global News : World
The destructive force of Mother Nature will no longer be associated with one of the world's most notorious and violent militant groups — ISIS. - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Ottawa Citizen » National
Treasury Board President Tony Clement says he won’t use the mental health of public servants as a “bargaining chip” during negotiations with unions over his plan to replace the existing sick-leave regime with a short-term disabilit... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Metro News » Canada
OTTAWA – Canadian aid agencies are fearful that after five years of cuts and freezes, Tuesday’s federal budget will fail to reverse the country’s continuing decline in foreign aid spending. Their fingers may be crossed,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsA woman in Texas has been accused of helping starve a toddler to death, to exorcise a demon, and then trying to revive him during a home-church ceremony.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsThe United States is willing to give an additional $200 million to Iraq in humanitarian aid as it battles the Islamic State, President Obama said Tuesday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from The Seattle TimesNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz is defending himself against 10 doctors who’ve accused him of promoting “quack treatments” on his TV show. Oz said in a statement Friday that his show provides “multiple points of vie...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Reuters: U.S.CHICAGO (Reuters) - Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago from 1997 until 2014, died on Friday at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer, Archbishop Blase Cupich said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsA deal to buy more than 3000 tonnes of Canadian uranium to fuel India's nuclear power reactors has been signed by India's prime minister.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from North America NewsA Maryland couple who ignited controversy after allowing their two children to walk home unsupervised from a park are being investigated again for alleged child neglect, police say.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Metro News » World
PORTLAND, Ore. – The wreckage of a fishing boat that appears to be debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami was carrying some unexpected passengers — fish from Japanese waters — when it was spotted off the Oregon coast. Scientists say...
