House GOP leaders face pushback from female members on abortion bill
READ: Who is Joni Ernst? Discussion about the issue at a closed door meeting on Wednesday morning got so tense that congressional aides were kicked out of the meeting when…
Argentina Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Was Found Dead In A Barely Locked Apartment
Mystery in the gunshot death of a prosecutor who had accused Argentina’s president of covering up a terror attack deepened Wednesday with the revelation that a door to his apartment…
10 Apps To Keep You Accountable For Those New Year’s Resolutions
and do some good. In general, American consumers spend an average of 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on their mobile devices, according to a Flurry report, and apps…
‘Pope’s Rabbi’ Abraham Skorka Urges Calm After Jewish Prosecutor Dies In Argentina
WASHINGTON (RNS) Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Argentina’s most famous Jewish citizen and a close friend of Pope Francis, was on the road this week when news from Buenos Aires shocked his…
Heed the lesson from Disneyland measles outbreak
For many kids, a trip to Disneyland is a dream come true. But for some of those kids and their families who visited “the happiest place on Earth” a few…
The $210 Million Baseball Contract That Explains How Inflation Works
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox JAN. 21, 2015 – Fed officials have noted surveys of consumers and businesses that suggest somewhat higher inflation. So they have been…
19 Taylor Swift Fans Just Cracked Eggs On Their Heads Because Taylor Swift
In today’s edition of “Taylor Swift Fans Are Super Amazing and Dedicated,” 19 Swifties just cracked eggs on their heads because the one and only T-Swift followed them on Tumblr….
Your Commute Could Be A Whole Lot Cooler Now That There’s A Motorized, One-Wheeled Skateboard
An avid snowboarder has reinvented the wheel — all in the name of making his commute more fun. “I wanted to make a vehicle where I could experience powder snowboarding…
Marissa Mayer’s Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time.
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART When Marissa Mayer was offered the chief executive job at Yahoo in the summer of 2012, she had a script for returning the pioneering…
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HUFFPOST HILL – Golden Age Of Political Comity Put Off For Another Day
CNN will debut a political game show: a Republican and Democratic contestant will each be asked the same questions, but no actual answer will be given. The bigamy case against…
Ukraine, Russia Reportedly Agree On Withdrawal Of Heavy Arms
Germany’s Foreign Minister says Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a procedure for the withdrawal of heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine. Frank-Walter Steinmeier says his counterparts from Russia and Ukraine…
Krispy Kreme Trolls The Patriots’ ‘DeflateGate’ On Twitter
Following revelations that the Patriots may have cheated in Sunday’s AFC Championship game by partially deflating their game balls, Krispy Kreme wasted no time in capitalizing on the allegations. The…
Woman Gets Pulled Over By Cops For Most Romantic Reason Yet
Getting pulled over by the cops isn’t typically a good thing — unless, of course, your boyfriend happens to be a police officer with a romantic plot up his sleeve….
Nas Explains How Police Misconduct Exposes America’s Weakness To The World
The reactions following last year’s non-indictments of police Officers Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri and Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island, New York prompted a wave of protests condemning police violence…
At Windows 10 Event, Microsoft Introduces HoloLens 3-D Headset
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a headset that will allow people to interact with holographic images, allowing them to play video games and build 3-D models. The headset,…
Hard Boiled Eggs Don’t Stay Fresh As Long As You Think They Do
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Your Tofu Sucks Because You Don’t Press It. This Is How To Get It Done.
For those new to tofu, this white brick of soybean can be persnickety to work with — to say the least. In untrained hands, tofu is hellbent on crumbling when…
2 bodies found in ruins of burned Annapolis mansion
Technology executive Don Pyle, his wife and four grandchildren are feared dead in the fire. Officials said the two bodies have not been identified. For the first time since the…
This Protest Song Captures The Power Of #BlackLivesMatter Demonstrations
Who says the protest song is dead? – “It is painful to focus on the casualties of inequality in this country and abroad, but that focus presents an opportunity if…
2015 Paris Terror Attacks Fast Facts
The Charlie in the title references Charlie Brown from the Peanuts cartoon. Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, meaning weekly, in French. The magazine ceased publication in the 1980s due to…
Was oldest gospel really found in a mummy mask?
The announcement of the papyrus’ discovery and impending publication was made by Craig Evans, professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Evans described the papyrus…
Jindal: Some Muslims trying to ‘colonize’ West
And the United States could be next, warned Jindal, a Republican who is considering a 2016 presidential run. “They may be second, third, fourth generation, they don’t consider themselves part…
Clinton emerges from hiatus with updated vision for future
READ: Clinton takes month-long hiatus “For our democracies to meet the tests ahead, all of our people, not just those of us here, but all of our people, have to…
ISIS gaining ground in Yemen, competing with al Qaeda
The disturbing information comes from a Yemeni official, who told CNN on Wednesday that ISIS has a presence in at least three provinces in southern and central Yemen, and there…
Obama warns Congress on changing Dodd-Frank
Any legislation that tries to weaken oversight of big banks, Obama added, “will earn my veto.”RELATED: Is it finally morning in Obama’s America?The president’s move to defend Dodd-Frank this week…
Inmate’s book exposes horrors of Gitmo
Mohamedou Slahi was wearing black-out goggles. A guard dragged him onto a boat and someone forced him to drink seawater. “It was so nasty I threw up…They stuffed the air…
Our Polar Regions Are Simply ‘Melting Away,’ And It’s A Beautiful Disaster
The Earth’s polar regions are some of the planet’s most fragile places. The Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere else on Earth, and snow and ice cover are…
Twins Discover The Delight Of Peekaboo, Entertain Themselves Appropriately
A pair of 9-month-old twins discovered the joys of playing peekaboo with a curtain, and their unadulterated delight is truly infectious. Sometimes the simplest things in life are truly the…
One Million Dads, A Men’s Counterpart To Anti-Gay Group One Million Moms, Launches Online
The conservative group best known for threatening to boycott JC Penney when the retail chain hired Ellen DeGeneres as its spokeswoman is branching out. Monica Cole, Director of One Million…