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Two organizations synonymous with the 2008 financial crisis could play vital roles in helping America’s most vulnerable residents get off the streets. ThinkProgress reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
It’s a uniquely Gen X personal finance dilemma: Should those of us with young children be socking away our savings in 401(k)s and IRAs to make up for Social Security’s…
Imagine if Georges Braque paired up with Max Ernst, or Fernand Léger decided to join forces with Dorothea Tanning, but instead of collaborating on mere Cubist or Surrealist paintings, the…
WASHINGTON — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) had previously said he wanted to fight the Obama administration over drug tests for food stamp recipients, but it turns out Walker would…
A Holocaust survivor recently reunited with the American soldier who helped to save his life decades ago. Joshua Kaufman, 87, a former prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp in Germany,…
Katie Couric is back. And suddenly it’s 1994. Fun having @katiecouric back in Studio 1A this morning! pic.twitter.com/WUV0hkVEvg –
The classic scenario goes something like, If we were the last two people on earth… In “Z for Zachariah,” based on the book by the same name, that’s sort of…
The series finale of “My So-Called Life” aired 20 years ago today, and we do not intend for the above headline to come off as hyperbole. This one episode of…
JERUSALEM — Damian Pachter, the journalist who broke the story of the recent death of an Argentine prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, has…
Feeling the sting of rejection? Itching to get even with an ex? The San Francisco Zoo is offering the burned and spurned masses the chance to “adopt” a hissing cockroach…
Watch out for those gowns. Naomi Watts tripped over Emma Stone’s gown while on stage with her “Birdman” co-stars accepting the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a…
“Professional swear word-sayer” John Oliver may not return to lambaste the news until next month, but he took to YouTube on Sunday to admit something really important about “Fifty Shades…
Warmer oceans will put the chill on sea turtle behavior, causing the endangered animals to stop basking on beaches within the next century. – Sounds like a sea change for…
Chris Berman really doesn’t want to talk to any damn quarterbacks right now, OK? OK, maybe his irritation during the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday was actually related to technical…
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing Syriza coalition, is about to become prime minister of Greece. He will be the first European leader elected on an explicit promise to challenge…
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) — Police in a Dallas suburb say a drunken driver crashed into an empty squad car while officers were busy dealing with another drunken driver they…
Prosecutors asked a court to convict the captain of the Costa Concordia and sentence him to 26 years in prison Monday for the 2012 shipwreck off Tuscany that killed 32…
At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which they may have killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted…
But Monday was already a day of ‘firsts’ for Venus Williams, whose career has been hindered by the autoimmune disorder Sjogren’s Syndrome. When the 34-year-old beat sixth-seed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3…
Journalist Steven Brill has written a new book about our dysfunctional system of health care and it’s getting a lot of attention. In “America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,…
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…
By Natalia Zinets and Denis Dyomkin KIEV/ST PETERSBURG, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern…
www.nbcnews.com: LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.
Greece’s left-wing, anti-austerity Syriza party has formed a coalition with the right-wing Independent Greeks party after exit polls showed Syriza was close to a parliamentary majority. Syriza is officially projected…
www.nytimes.com: Saturday evening, I got a call that no parent wants to get. It was my son calling from college — he’s a third-year student at Yale. He had been…
Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose…
A surge of private jets—roughly 1,700—converged on Switzerland’s airports this week. The Swiss Armed Forces even had to open up a military base to accommodate the air traffic jam. That’s…
The longstanding Chinese tradition of using pen names persists today on blogs and the Internet, as authors seek to separate their writerly personas from their real identities. In some cases…
Gamal and Alaa Mubarak had served the maximum pretrial detention allowed. A previous embezzlement conviction of the two sons and their father was overturned this year, but they all face…
The following is an excerpt from Scholastic’s Open a World of Possible, a book tied to the publisher’s reading initiative aimed to donate books and raise literacy levels. This essay,…