Oil price collapse saves China $100 billion in six months
Oil prices tumbled from $116 per barrel to less than $50 in just six months, with the fall accelerating after OPEC decided in November not to cut production. Lin’s comments…
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After Displacing Over 1,000, New Jersey Blaze Is Deemed Accidental
EDGEWATER, N.J. — The complex of luxury apartments burned down 15 years ago, before it was even finished, in what fire officials here described then as the worst blaze they…
Shadow photos of dogs reveal their ‘primal nature’
Something had to be done. Each time Roma showed up, Violet charged at him, barking and occasionally nipping at his legs. One day, Roma knelt down next to her and…
Japan Captive’s Mother Asks Islamic State For His Release As Deadline Looms
By Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The mother of a Japanese journalist being held captive by Islamic State militants along with another Japanese citizen appealed for his safe…
Meet Tom Cotton, The Senate’s Newest Unapologetic Hawk
WASHINGTON — Less than a month into his first term as a U.S. Senator, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton is already proving to be one of the most hardline foreign policy…
Finally, Jamie Dimon gets his cash bonus
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Thanks To John Kerry, Israel Stunt Backfires On Boehner
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to be have pulled off a masterful political victory against the Obama administration Wednesday when he revealed that he had invited Israeli…
The 9 Best Things That Happened When YouTube Stars Interviewed President Obama
Most reporters don’t have millions of YouTube subscribers or the ability to make a 60-second video go instantly viral, but then again, today’s interview with President Obama wasn’t your typical…
DC Subway: Fire Changes Led to Difficulty Using Radios
Firefighters had difficulty using their radios during an emergency on the Washington subway system because fire officials had made changes to their radio system without alerting their partners who oversee…
U.S. Reduces Staff At Yemen Embassy Amid Government Collapse
By Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The United States has pulled more staff out of its embassy in Yemen, U.S. officials said on Thursday as…
Victims of Colorado massacre remembered
The cause of death in all cases is related to gunshot wounds, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office. Jonathan T. Blunk, 26 Blunk served for five years in the…
Woman calls self ‘servant of Allah,’ faces sentencing for ISIS plan
The Colorado resident who pleaded guilty to wanting to join ISIS jihad has changed her Muslim name and prepared a new hairstyle for her sentencing Friday. Shannon Maureen Conley, 19,…
Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats Prepare To Battle New GOP Chairman On CIA Torture Report
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are gearing up to fight their new Republican chairman’s attempts to reclaim the panel’s report on the CIA’s torture program, setting the…
Millennials Descend On Lawmaker’s Office To Complain About Abortion Bill, Get Directions To Bar
WASHINGTON — A group of anti-abortion millennials showed up at Rep. Renee Ellmers’ office Thursday afternoon to tell her how angry they were that she helped sink a bill that…
Obama: King Abdullah Held ‘Passionate Belief In The Importance’ Of U.S.-Saudi Relationship
President Barack Obama released a statement Thursday on the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. – Read more on the king’s death here.
King Abdullah, Who Nudged Saudi Arabia Forward, Dies at 90
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who came to the throne in old age and earned a reputation as a cautious reformer even as the Arab Spring revolts toppled heads of…
‘Coming out’ on climate change
Phew. But are we causing it? Oh no-no-no, says half the Senate. Forty-nine senators (full list here) voted on Wednesday against an amendment that said climate change is happening and,…
Dreamers Prepare To Confront Republicans In Iowa
WASHINGTON — Last August, two young undocumented immigrants approached Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) while they were eating lunch to ask whether the lawmakers thought they…
Lawsuit claims UNC and NCAA broke promises in ‘spectacular fashion’
Devon Ramsay and Rashanda McCants filed the class-action lawsuit in California on Thursday afternoon, leaving open the possibility for more athletes to join them. The suit doesn’t just go after…
Scientists Warn We’re Ever-Closer To The Apocalypse
WASHINGTON -– The world crept closer to doomsday on Thursday. That’s according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which each year updates the hands on a clock meant to…
Obama still hates the new, watered-down Iran sanctions bill
The result of that redrafting process is a significantly watered-down version of the Nuclear Free Iran Act of 2013, also known as Kirk-Menendez, that addresses much of the criticism the…
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Sought To Modernize His Oil-Rich Nation
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the powerful U.S. ally who joined Washington’s fight against al-Qaida and sought to modernize the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom with incremental but significant reforms, including nudging open…
Mitt Romney’s Top Fundraisers Consider Bailing
This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. It will take hundreds of millions of dollars to win…
NTSB issues new recommendations to find missing planes
“Recent events have highlighted that recovering flight data can be costly and difficult when an accident occurs in a remote area, outside radar coverage,” the NTSB wrote in the letter…
Arianna Huffington Speaks At Davos About Journalism, Activism, ‘Pop And Policy’
Solving critical problems doesn’t have to be left up to political big wigs — given the right tools, everyday people can create change, Arianna Huffington noted at the World Economic…
7 Reasons I’m Grateful For My Divorce
www.mindbodygreen.com: While I had been in love during my teenage years, my now ex-husband was my first adult relationship. I had gotten engaged to him at 20 and married him…
Police Launch Investigation After Video Appears To Show Cop Shoving Man In Wheelchair Into Street
The San Francisco Police Department said Wednesday that it is launching an internal investigation after videos emerged appearing to show an officer pushing a man in a wheelchair into the…
Annapolis Mansion Fire: 2 More Bodies Found
Investigators found the bodies of two more people in the charred remains of an Annapolis-area mansion that burned to the ground earlier this week, bringing the number of dead to…
Here’s How The Anti-Abortion Movement Plans To Modernize Its Approach
WASHINGTON — While Republican lawmakers squabbled over a single bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the anti-abortion movement’s leadership found common ground Wednesday discussing long-term strategy at a…
Tom Brady Has A Lot To Say About Balls
This could have all been avoided if he just said footballs. On Thursday, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady responded to allegations that his team played with deflated footballs in…