Democrats lose their favorite candidate: Mitt Romney
No Mitt Romney 3.0. No “third time’s a charm.” No invoking Ronald Reagan’s two failed presidential campaigns. No 47%, car elevators or dog on the roof. No Bain Capital. No…
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Swedish Swimming Pool Opens Gender Neutral Changing Room
A public swimming pool outside the Swedish capital is reopening this weekend after building a third changing room, for people with a “neutral gender identity.” The city of Sundbyberg, a…
Yemeni Parliament Cancels Meeting on President’s Resignation
SANA, Yemen — Yemen’s Parliament on Sunday called off a meeting that was supposed to discuss the resignation of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, extending the state of political deadlock…
Houthi Fighters Hold Yemen’s Presidential Palace, Despite Deal
SANA, Yemen — Houthi militiamen remained in control of Yemen’s presidential palace on Thursday, a day after President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi leadership agreed to a deal…
Yemen minister: Kidnapped aide still held by rebels in breach of peace deal
The Houthi rebelsShiite Muslims who have long felt marginalized in the majority Sunni countrykidnapped presidential Chief of Staff Ahmed bin Mubarak in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday. The rebels then…
Yemen’s President Said to Reach Deal With Houthi Rebels Besieging Capital
SANA, Yemen — President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi of Yemen appeared to bow on Wednesday to the demands made by the Houthi movement, whose militiamen have besieged his presidential palace…
Houthi Rebels And Yemen’s Embattled President Agree To End Violent Standoff
Shiite rebels, Yemen’s embattled president reach agreement to end violent standoff in capital.
How Obama would close the ‘trust fund loophole’
Related: Obama’s proposal for the middle class That’s because the proposal includes a number of allowances so that the tax won’t hit the college kid who inherits $10,000 in stock…
Van Gogh the preacher? New show to explore artist’s life before painting
This summer the Grand-Place in the Belgian city of Mons will be transformed into a blaze of yellow, a field of 7,500 sunflowers celebrating the city’s turn as European capital…
The New Yorker Shares Its ‘Dream Of Reconciliation’ With Striking MLK Cover
Channeling the iconic image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. linking arms with fellow civil rights activists during the march from Selma, Alabama to the state’s capital in Montgomery, The…
Houthi Rebels Seize Yemen State Media, Battle Soldiers
Rebel Shiite Houthis battled soldiers near Yemen’s presidential palace and elsewhere across the capital Monday, seizing control of the country’s state-run media in a move an official called “a step…
10 top destinations to visit in 2015
Located along Nassau’s famed Cable Beach, Baha Mar is expected to send ripples across the Caribbean when it opens to the public in late spring 2015 with a grand gala…
Dozens killed in car bomb blast outside police college in Yemen
At least 38 people were killed and dozens others were injured in a car bomb explosion in front of the Police College in the Yemeni capital Sanaa Wednesday morning, two…