Homeland Security site of looming fund fight
The Homeland Security Department’s funding is due to expire Feb. 27, a date chosen by Republicans in December, as they worked out a deal to keep the rest of the…
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Fundraising campaign raises more than $452K for disabled mugging victim
An assailant shoved Alan Barnes, 67who is just four feet six inches tall and partially blindto the ground and demanded he hand over his money in Gateshead, a town in…
Whitney Houston’s daughter on a ventilator, source says
“It is going to be a waiting game,” said the source. Brown “was not breathing” when a man identified as her husband found her Saturday morning inside her townhouse in…
10 ways to stay safe when buying and selling online
A couple from Georgia was traveling to a Craigslist transaction last month when they left their suburban Atlanta home in hopes of buying a 1966 Ford Mustang. They did everything…
Friend: Drone crasher wants to apologize to Obama family
Still unnamed by authorities, the flyer of the DJI Phantom quadcopter, who is also a U.S. intelligence agency employee, is declining comment. The drone’s owner only spoke to CNN on…
Expanded federal ban on profiling doesn’t apply at borders, airport screening
The new guidelines replace ones in place since 2003, which prohibit profiling based on race and ethnicity, but also include broad exemptions for national security investigations. The Justice Department will…
Attorney General Eric Holder to go to Paris in wake of attack
In the wake of deadly terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hedbo, the United States has repeatedly said it will work closely within its own intelligence and defense…
Saudi dilemma: How to spot potential terrorist amid tide of human misery
I’d been asking the Saudi Interior Ministry to take me there for several years. Now I was in the desert kingdom covering King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s ascent to the throne,…
The big dangers of ‘big data’
“Big data” and “evidence-based policy” are the dominant ideas of our moment. A May 2014 White House report put it this way: “Big data will become an historic driver of…
Vine launches kid-friendly app
The online platform was acquired by Twitter in October 2012 and recently announced that it has more than 40 million registered users.
Fit for football? Uncovering the secrets of the soccer medical
It’s the mayhem of transfer deadline day. The clubs have agreed a fee, agents and money-men are done haggling over personal terms and a freshly minted contract awaits a signature…
Christie: We vaccinate our kids, but it’s parent choice
“I also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice as well. So that’s a balance the government has to decide,” Christie added. Asked whether he was advocating…
Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime show is totally meme-worthy
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For Egypt, Al Jazeera prisoners were PR disaster amid bigger problems
As Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was flying to freedom Sunday after 400 days in jail, the man in charge of Egypt was making a long speech lamenting his country’s…
Egyptian court sentences 183 to death
The defendants had been convicted of murdering 11 police officers and two civilians in the district of Kerdasa last August. That attack followed a crackdown by security forces on supporters…
Fake deaths: The great pretenders
These images reveal a whole new perspective on America’s Civil War re-enactors. But they also aim to spark conversations about two things that touch us all: life and death. For…
Jordan waits, Japan mourns after ISIS apparently beheads journalist
He apparently became the latest foreigner killed by ISIS after a video distributed Saturday appears to show his beheaded body. A week earlier, another video had shown Goto holding a…
Want to get signed to a Bundesliga club? Don’t wear headphones
It’s often said you can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps. It’s an aphorism worth remembering on arguably the most hectic day in the football…
White House budget: Time to lift up the middle class
The White House has touted a growing economy and shrinking deficits as the impetus for proposing a range of measures aimed at helping low- and middle-income families. These would be…
Man arrested Sunday for attempting to climb White House temporary fencing
He has been placed into the custody of DC Police.
‘Back to the future’ medicine man turns frustration into big opportunity
The pioneering Kenyan doctor was just nine years old when a girl was rushed across the border from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. A few years his senior, she was…
Clinton advisers are split on when Hillary Clinton should launch her campaign
“I’m in it to win it,” she said in a YouTube video posted on January 21, 2007. But even though a second Hillary Clinton for president campaign is all but…
Where we are in the Supreme Court term
By November, the Court accepted yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Act—the signature legislative achievement of the Obama administration. In a matter of weeks, the justices heard arguments concerning…
‘A beautiful life’: The Australian woman who became a geisha
It could be a scene from a print by 19th century Japanese artist Hokusai, but behind the evocative image is a modern story. Leading the four through the snows of…
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2 killed as storm heads Northeast for a second round of pounding in a week
Millions will wake up Monday to sleet and blizzard conditions in the Northeast the second round of winter weather pounding in a week. The storm buried the Midwest in snow…
Super Bowl XLIX: Patriots beat Seahawks for Brady’s fourth title
The 37-year-old, sacked and twice intercepted, refused to give in as the Patriotsat one point down by 10fought their way to a 28-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in Glendale,…
The worst call in Super Bowl history and other memorable moments
But Super Bowl XLIX will be remembered for its exciting, crazy ending, the kind of final scene that would have a Hollywood scriptwriter saying, “Nah, nobody would ever believe that.”…
5 things to know for your New Day — Monday, February 2
WINTER WEATHER Here we go again, Northeast: As the Midwest remains buried in snow, millions will wake up Monday to sleet and blizzard conditions in the East Coast — the…
China executes 2 members of banned doomsday group
Zhang Fan and Zhang Lidong were executed Monday after their death sentences were approved by the Supreme People’s Court, the Xinhua news agency. The report stated that, before their deaths,…