Tourist cleans Thailand streets out of love
Some want to see if the pad thai in the Chang Mai night market tastes better than it does at their favorite Thai restaurant back home. (It does.) According to…
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California family fears relatives are ISIS hostages
David said his brother-in-law, who emigrated to the United States about four years ago with his wife and daughters, has been abducted by ISIS in Syria along with several other…
Christie uses CPAC to draw contrasts with Bush
“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…
CNN Student News – February 27, 2015
TRANSCRIPT Click here to access the transcript of today’s CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and…
CNN Student News – February 27, 2015
TRANSCRIPT Click here to access the transcript of today’s CNN Student News program. Please note that there may be a delay between the time when the video is available and…
5 ways to screw up the new ‘Alien’ movie
Blomkamp, who made the respected sci-fi action thriller “District 9” and has a new movie, “Chappie,” coming out March 6, posted an Instagram message last week implying his next film…
6 Republicans to watch in DHS fight
McConnnell, a Kentucky Republican, could soon hold a vote on legislation that would keep the agency open without targeting President Barack Obama’s immigration orders loathed by the GOP. (A separate…
Boehner running out of options as DHS shutdown looms
How he handles the looming showdown over a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security could dictate the rest of his speakership, as House conservatives warn compromising now means…
CPAC through Snapchat: A story from the conference
We have tea partier William Temple from Georgia who is a conference regular. He’s hoping Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Scott Walker make a run in 2016. – In the…
Twitter joins high-speed chase for llamas on the lam
Of course, it didn’t take long before Twitter joined in the hunt. #Llamas became a trending topic worldwide. The chase began after a 911 call came in to the Maricopa…
Missouri Republican dead after apparent suicide
The newspaper said Schweich’s wife, who was in another room, heard him making phone callsand then a gunshot. It happened just hours after Schweich had requested interviews with the Post-Dispatch…
Country’s busiest airport steps up security
Before the new measures, employees only had to swipe their badges to gain access to secure areas of the airport. Now private security guards are checking their bags and personal…
Court rules: Adultery no longer a crime in South Korea
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday overturned a law that made adultery a crime, saying it violates the East Asian nation’s constitution. “The precondition of human dignity and right to…
Pilot: What keeps you safe from terror hijackings
Brooklyn? Who would have thought the latest terrorist threat would have origins in one of the oldest boroughs in New York? My mother grew up in Brooklyn. And the fact…
Lupita Nyong’o’s $150,000 pearl Oscars dress stolen
Detectives on Thursday were investigating the theft at the London, a luxury hotel just off Sunset Boulevard, said Lt. William Nash of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. The theft was…
Why ‘Jihadi John’ is so worrying
The revelations Thursday over the identity of “Jihadi John”that he apparently grew up and was educated in Britain, and that he has a degree in computing from Westminster University in…
Rare Roman headstone uncovered in England
Most likely dating back to the 2nd century AD, the tombstone may be for a person named Bodicacia or Bodica, according to Ed McSloy, Cotswold Archaeology’s senior Finds and Archives…
Boehner to media: Pucker up
After batting away question after question about what the House will do if the Senate sends it a bill to fund Homeland Security, without including in it the attack on…
Argentine prosecutor’s case against President dismissed
The prosecutor who filed the case, Alberto Nisman, was found dead days after making the accusations. His death sparked outrage and conspiracy theories aplenty. Judge Daniel Rafecas on Thursday ruled…
Scott Walker’s challenge: Keeping the momentum
He’s rocketing to the top-tier of potential 2016 GOP contenders following a strong appearance in Iowa last month and surging to the front of the pack in a handful of…
29 Democrats skipping Netanyahu’s speech
And a number of top Democrats — including Vice President Joe Biden, whose job description includes the title President of the Senate — won’t be attending. Netanyahu is expected to use the…
Argentine prosecutor’s case against President dismissed
The prosecutor who filed the case, Alberto Nisman, was found dead days after making the accusations. His death sparked outrage and conspiracy theories aplenty. Judge Daniel Rafecas on Thursday ruled…
Argentine prosecutor’s case against President dismissed
An Argentine judge has dismissed a criminal complaint accusing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and other top leaders of covering up Iran’s involvement in a 1994 terrorist bombing in Buenos…
Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch gets GOP Support, headed toward confirmation vote
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-8 to move Loretta Lynch’s nomination to the full Senate floor for a vote. Three Republicans, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, Orrin Hatch of Utah…
At CPAC ‘boot camp,’ learning from the Left
While 2016 hopefuls flocked to the National Harbor, Maryland, confab on Thursday, aspiring activists listened attentively the day before as conservative operatives extolled the work of people who would only…
White House gets confrontational before Netanyahu visit
Gone are the muted responses to Netanyahu’s scheduled March 3 speech to a joint session of Congress. Top Obama administration officials are shifting to a much more confrontational tone. While…
The social network that you can wear
A joint venture between design teams at MIT’s Tangible Media Group and the Fluid Interface Group have incorporated the social network into a garment which signals to other wearers your…
What terrorists are really angry about
But what we do know is that it has become common, even routine, to argue that there exists a process by which potential terrorists become “radicalized.” The concept, which has…
So long, transistor: How the ‘memristor’ could revolutionize electronics
He called it “memristor”, a portmanteau of the words memory and resistor. It took 37 years for our engineering abilities to catch up with that idea: the first memristor was…
CPAC 2015: LIVE
Watch CPAC LIVE What does CPAC look like? check out the video below: This year’s CPAC marks the unofficial kickoff of the battle for the conservative vote among GOP presidential…