Instead Of Charging Him For Shoplifting, Officer Helps Single Dad Feed His Baby
Superman has a cape, Spider-Man his webs, and Justin Roby has … baby formula. – “Behind the uniform, I’m a human being and I’m a person out in this community…
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For Egypt, Al Jazeera prisoners were PR disaster amid bigger problems
As Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was flying to freedom Sunday after 400 days in jail, the man in charge of Egypt was making a long speech lamenting his country’s…
As many as 100 body parts discovered in Indian police station
The discovery was made by contract workers in the city of Unnao, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Lucknow. While cleaning a disused part of a city police station…
Fossils May Belong To New Primitive Human Species
Have scientists discovered a new species of primitive human? Two teams of researchers have been asking that very question after analyzing mysterious fossils found in China and Taiwan. The fossils…
Amid Super Bowl Human Trafficking Hype, A Reminder That 70% Of Victims Are Sold Online Year-Round
Though some reports point to an uptick in human trafficking around the Super Bowl, experts are increasingly denouncing the statistic as a “myth” that detracts from a reality in which…
U.N. Rights Chief Says He’ll Shine a Light on Countries Big and Small
The Saturday Profile By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE GENEVA — IN a 20-year career at the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein has had more than a few opportunities to witness…
Human Remains Found In Suitcase Are From 1 Man: SF Coroner
The San Francisco medical examiner has determined that the human remains found inside a suitcase abandoned on a downtown street belong to an unidentified light-skinned man. Authorities will now turn…
Ancient Skull Sheds New Light On Human-Neanderthal Sex
An ancient human skull fragment found in Israel may come from a close relative of the first modern humans to colonize Europe, researchers say. The finding sheds light on the…
New Stem Cell Advance May Be Big Step Toward Cure For Hair Loss
Hats off to researchers in California. They’ve taken what appears to be a big step toward the development of a cure for hair loss, a condition that affects 50 million…
Legal lifeline thrown to Australians on Indonesian death row
Successive appeals have failed to have their sentences commuted, and both are on a list of inmates scheduled to die by firing squad. Application accepted On Friday, their Indonesian lawyer…
Ancient Skull Adds New Insight to Story of Human Evolution
Anthropologists exploring a cave in Israel have uncovered a rare 55,000-year-old fossil skull that they say has a story to tell of a reverberating transition in human evolution, in the…
Dylan Marron’s ‘The Human Symphony’ Invites Viewers To Explore Online Dating, Both Gay And Straight
The star of the acclaimed web series “Whatever this is.” is back with an experimental new project that takes an audience participatory look at the world of online dating. Dylan…
‘Fantastic Four’ reboot: What do we think?
20th Century Fox’s new take on the foursomelast seen in 2007’s “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”looks quite different from what we’re used to. For starters, some of the…
Obamacare Nears Major Goal With One Month To Go
More than 9.5 million people have signed up for private health insurance coverage this year using the Obamacare exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services disclosed Tuesday, putting the…
Obama defends Saudi relationship: ‘Sometimes we have to balance’
But even as the U.S. works closely with the Saudis on common strategic goals like counterterrorism, Obama said he and his administration continue to apply “steady, consistent pressure” on issues…
What to expect when Obama visits Saudi Arabia
Obama’s meeting with King Salman comes just days after the death of King Abdullah, who was buried Friday. The White House said the main reason for Obama’s trip is to…
7 Scientific Reasons Babies Are Really Freakin’ Cool
Babies are adorable, tend to cry a lot, and have little control over their bodily functions. But science says there’s much more to ’em! Here are 7 fascinating things to…
Human Rights Groups Press Obama on India
NEW DELHI — A year after the arrest of an Indian diplomat accused of exploiting a domestic worker in New York ruptured relations, India and the United States have put…
Saudi King Abdullah Was A Reformer, But Not A Very Good One
After Saudi Arabia announced the death of King Abdullah early Friday, tributes pouring in from around the globe lauded the monarch as a progressive reformer — by the ultraconservative kingdom’s…
Senate Republicans Remove ‘Civil Rights And Human Rights’ From Subcommittee Name
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans revealed this week that they have eliminated the phrase “civil rights and human rights” from the title of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee charged with overseeing those…
Inequality as a Religious Issue: A Conversation With the Archbishop of Canterbury
In the two years since the Most Rev. Justin Welby was installed as archbishop of Canterbury, he has traveled the world to talk with other church leaders, and his assessment…
This Is What Masculinity Really Means To Men
“Dominance.” “Power.” “Strong.” “Alpha.” “Control.” – The one thing every man we spoke to agreed on is that having fewer limitations on what men and women “should” and “shouldn’t” do…
The Senate Actually Just Acknowledged Climate Change Is Real
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to acknowledge that climate change is real, bringing itself up to date with every major scientific body in the world. But the Senate also…
Fear, hatred, slaughter marks of heresy — not God
Democracy, freedom of religion and speech are gifts that help define what it means to be fully human. But within any democracy there must exist a level of respectful restraint…
Surfing community stunned after Brazil’s Ricardo dos Santos shot dead
“An incredible human being!” wrote Carlos Burle, another top Brazilian surfer, in a post on Instagram. He said dos Santos had “a whole life ahead of him.” RIP Ricardo dos…
Billionaires battle for the Internet in space
Whoever owns the skies has the opportunity to be the telecom operator of the future, creating a network in space akin to what AT&T (T, Tech30) made by laying down…
7 ‘tech superheroes’ to watch in 2015
From a super strong moldable glue, to 3D food printers, and laboratories growing human bones, these are the big ideas from some of science’s brightest minds. These seven “tech superheroes”…
How A Cast Of Dancing Superhero Vegetables Are Changing The Way Kids Eat — For The Better
Since 1969, Big Bird, Elmo and the whole gang of “Sesame Street” have been teaching the world that learning can be fun. The iconic puppets and their human friends were…
Human Ken Doll Justin Jedlica Risks Blindness To Become ‘100 Percent Plastic’
Justin Jedlica, the self-styled ‘Human Ken Doll’ who has had more than 190 cosmetic procedures in his Quixotic quest to become “100 percent plastic,” says he risked going blind during…
The British Muslim Who Founded A Controversial Gay-Friendly Mosque
Dr. Taj Hargey says he became radicalized after 9/11. “I went to mosque in Oxford that week, after the largest political event of the age concerning Muslims, and did anyone…