Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced Monday that they will not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress. One day…
A clean bill to fully fund the Department through the end of the fiscal year is what Democrats have been demanding, and conservatives have been fighting against. READ: Boehner peering…
We’ve come a long way since, “Is your refrigerator running?” “Textastrophe: A Collection of Hilariously Catastrophic Text Pranks” is a new book based on the popular Tumblr that showcases one…
In his editor’s letter this week announcing a redesigned New York Times Magazine, one with much more digital content and a podcast tie-in, editor Jake Silverstein offered a preemptive defense…
The country’s largest state university system says it doesn’t discriminate against former prison inmates. Applicants say otherwise. Read the whole story at The Marshall Project
Slain Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov knew criticizing the Kremlin was dangerous, but thought his fame would protect him. The 55-year-old was walking home from dinner with his girlfriend Anna…
England is running out of chances, as the Cricket World Cup’s qualifying games wind down. When play resumes Tuesday after an off day, 19 of the 42 pool matches will…
England is running out of chances, as the Cricket World Cup’s qualifying games wind down. When play resumes Tuesday after an off day, 19 of the 42 pool matches will…
I was visiting from Europe, where terrorism was a fact of life, and I was scared. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Europe, and even beyond, far-left and far-right extremists,…
JAGDALPUR, India — On a quiet night last November, the human rights lawyer Shalini Gera was brewing tea in her drab, small-town office, which doubles as an apartment, when her…
A long, steadily worsening showdown between the rivals is coming to a head in the tense final stages of talks between world powers and Iran in pursuit of a nuclear…
JERUSALEM — At Jerusalem’s bustling Mahane Yehuda market, a traditional bastion of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party, Israeli divisions played out among the fruit and vegetable…
WASHINGTON — Dr. Ben Carson defended President Barack Obama Sunday against criticism that he was too inexperienced to be president. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Carson went on to…
And as they march near the site of Nemtsov’s death, conspiracy theories swirl over who killed the 55-year-old outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin as he walked near the Kremlin…
After weeks of news of hatred around the world against Jews and Muslims, Norwegians have shown humanity what it truly means to love your neighbor. – “Humanity is one and…
WASHINGTON — It could hardly have been a more perfect storm, and it was all because of a single question in a routine briefing. On Feb. 19, U.S. Central Command,…
By Alexander Winning and Katya Golubkova MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Thousands of stunned Russians laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on the bridge where opposition politician Boris Nemtsov…
Writing from an online perch in Istanbul, he calls on Egyptians to start off-hour attacks against KFC restaurants, banks, mobile phone shops and other corporate outposts. He urges assaults on…
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Al Sharpton were hit last week with a $20 billion lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against black-owned media companies. While Sharpton and Comcast have spoken out…
Michele Bachmann, Donna Brazile, and Peter Baker on John Boehner’s bravado, the GOP’s united front against Hillary Clinton and the grassroots backlash against Jeb Bush. Dana Bash hosts State of…
The University of Oregon dropped a countersuit Thursday against a student who had reported being gang-raped by three of the school’s basketball players and who subsequently sued UO for the…
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school’s stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him “as a…
The makers of the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine say now they know why it has failed to protect young U.S. children against swine flu — fragile doses…
British former pop star Gary Glitter on Friday was sentenced to 16 years in prison for child sex abuse offenses he committed more than three decades ago. Glitter, 70, whose…
A prominent U.S. blogger, known for his writing against religious fundamentalism, has been hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Bangladesh’s capital, police said Friday. The attack on Avijit Roy,…
“Because I consider Jeb a friend,” Christie said. “And he’s been a wonderful friend to me.” Today, the New Jersey Republican finds himself needing to draw a contrast with the…
The scene sent a chill through Wall Street and fueled some of the biggest insider trading convictions in a generation: F.B.I. agents marched into hedge fund offices in Manhattan, Connecticut…
The Texas sports anchor who defended Michael Sam in a viral clip has delivered another rousing speech on air — this time, against racism. – H/T For The Win
BEIJING — First, the police took away the think tank’s former graphic designer, then the young man who organized seminars, and eventually its founder. Another employee fled China’s capital, fearing…
The do-good hackers were indeed engaged in a serious race against the clock to solve the simulated hack, but the real prize was a chance to be identified as as…