The Proven Secret To A Healthy Sex Life After 50
It’s often believed that when you connect more deeply with yourself, you can also connect on another level with others. This is where the practice of anti-aging yoga and sexual…
Here’s How Obamacare Is Going To Affect Your Taxes
Taxes are a pain. Health insurance is a pain. This year, Americans will suffer both when they file their income taxes. Ouch. The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, inserted health…
Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac May Help End Homelessness In America
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…
How To Balance Saving For Retirement With Saving For College
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…
Tattoo Duo Transforms Skin Into Canvas With Incredibly Intricate Cubist Illustrations
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…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Backing Down From Food Stamp Fight
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…
Holocaust Survivor Salutes Liberator In Emotional Meeting Decades Later
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 Returns To ‘Today’ To Relive 1994 In New Super Bowl Ad
Katie Couric is back. And suddenly it’s 1994. Fun having @katiecouric back in Studio 1A this morning! pic.twitter.com/WUV0hkVEvg –
‘Z For Zachariah,’ Like ‘Hunger Games’ For Older Siblings, Puts Margot Robbie On The Map
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…
‘My So-Called Life’ Series Finale Gave Us The Best Teenage Love Letter Of All Time
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…
Journalist Who Reported on Argentine Prosecutor’s Death Flees to Israel
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…
Adopt A Cockroach In Honor Of Your Worthless Ex
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…
Naomi Watts Trips Over Emma Stone’s Dress On Stage At The SAG Awards
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…
John Oliver Auditions For ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey,’ With Handcuffs
“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…
Rising Ocean Temperatures May Trigger Big Change In Sea Turtle Behavior
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 Didn’t Have A Great Time At The Pro Bowl
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…
Ending Greece’s Nightmare
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…
Cops: Drunken Driver Hit Squad Car While Officers Were Dealing With Other Drunken Driver
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…
Prosecutor Seeks 26 Years For Costa Concordia Captain
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…
Toll Of Filipino Commandos Killed In Rebel Clash Rises To At Least 43
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…
Australian Open: Serena, Venus Williams on course for showdown
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…
Is Obamacare about controlling our lives?
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,…
Survivors Visit Auschwitz A Day Ahead Of 70th Anniversary
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…
Pro-Russian Rebels Advance In Eastern Ukraine, Fighting Intensifies
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…
Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out Of Gas Chamber Alive – NBC News.com
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 forms anti-austerity coalition government
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…
Charles Blow: At Yale, The Police Detained My Son – NYTimes.com
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 Officials Say They’ve Nearly Pushed ISIS Out Of Kobani
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…
Does Davos Actually Do Anything?
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…
China to Force Authors to Provide Real Names When Publishing Online
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…