Here Are The Top 10 Part-Time Jobs For 2015
As the country has slowly recovered from the Great Recession in recent years, many workers have been forced to take on part-time or temporary work, as full-time options are often…
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Republicans run down Obama’s clock
It looks like the Republicans in Congress have failed again. House Republicans defeated a plan pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to fund the Department of Homeland Security, money…
The Problem With ‘Last Man On Earth’ No One Is Talking About
This piece contains spoilers about “The Last Man on Earth.” The only critic on Earth who doesn’t like Fox’s “Last Man on Earth”? You’re reading her right now. It’s not…
Climate Change Helped Fuel The Syrian Conflict, New Paper Finds
An unprecedented climate change-fueled drought contributed to the political unrest in Syria, a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes. The Syrian drought,…
Marshawn Lynch On Last Play Of The Super Bowl: ‘I Was Expecting The Ball’
Marshawn Lynch has a famously contentious relationship with the media, so it’s somehow fitting that his first substantial interview since the Super Bowl would take place on the other side…
#TheDress: 73 million page views
Tumblr also pointed out that BuzzFeed, which spotted the Tumblr post, has written 31 articles regarding #TheDress just in the past five days. It was a winner for BuzzFeed as…
A bank is offering scented credit cards to Middle Eastern women
The bank also came out with a “selfie” credit card, which allows users to upload photos of themselves from their phones and have them printed on their cards. According to…
News Corp. Set to Rehire Rebekah Brooks, Acquitted Executive
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related to the phone hacking scandal, is likely to return to News Corporation…
Will Smith’s ‘Focus’ Tops Box Office With $19.1 Million
Will Smith’s con-man caper “Focus” dethroned “Fifty Shades of Grey” at the box office, but the film’s modest $19.1 million opening still left questions about the drawing power of the…
The argument for a basic income
I went to Cherokee to explore the idea of a “universal basic income,” which is a fancy way of saying something that’s really quite simple: Give everyone cash, just for…
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Heads To Washington For Congress Speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to Washington on Sunday to press his case against an emerging deal on Iran’s nuclear program in a contentious address to the U.S. Congress,…
Missing UK teens seen on video in Turkey before going to Syria
Images show the teens boarding a bus in Istanbul, Turkish HBR television reported. It’s the first sighting of the girls since they left London almost two weeks ago. Authorities have…
After Boris Nemtsov’s Assassination, ‘There Are No Longer Any Limits’
On Friday evening, Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, went on a prominent Moscow radio station to exhort his fellow citizens…
Team behind ‘Fault in Our Stars’ reunites for next John Green adaptation
And now, the writing duo and Temple Hill have signed on to Paramount’s adaptation of Green’s first novel, “Looking for Alaska.” Neustadter and Weber will write the screenplay for the…
Team behind ‘Fault in Our Stars’ reunites for next John Green adaptation
And now, the writing duo and Temple Hill have signed on to Paramount’s adaptation of Green’s first novel, “Looking for Alaska.” Neustadter and Weber will write the screenplay for the…
Wesleyan Struggles To Deal With Student Drug Use
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — As drug overdoses left two Wesleyan students fighting for their lives, witnesses helped investigators quickly identify the suspects: The drug-dealing was an open secret, according to…
Diamond Thief Gets 15 Years in Paris Heist
PARIS — A French court meted out a prison sentence of 15 years on Friday to a convicted drug trafficker considered the ringleader of a spectacular $100 million diamond heist…
Diamond Thief Gets 15 Years in Paris Heist
PARIS — A French court meted out a prison sentence of 15 years on Friday to a convicted drug trafficker considered the ringleader of a spectacular $100 million diamond heist…
I will not be silenced: Australian Muslim fights Twitter ‘troll army’
And they have been. “Leave now before we behead your mother and bury you all with pigs…” said one tweet from an account, which has since been suspended. Many of…
Here’s What Will Happen If The DHS Shuts Down
Feb 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress was scrambling before a deadline at midnight on Friday to pass a $39.7 billion funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which…
For sale: handbags and conservative ideology
But two floors below the Conservative Political Action Conference’s cavernous ballroom, there’s an entirely different show. An eclectic — and sometimes bewildering — mix of more than 120 vendors are…
Here’s How NYC Says It’s Saving 800 Lives A Year By Cleaning Up The Air
It’s been a cold winter in New York City, which means a lot of building owners are turning up the heat — and pumping more pollutants into the city’s air….
Jimmy Fallon’s #EmailFail Tweets Prove Technology Is Hilarious
A recent Gmail glitch caused users to send emails to the wrong people, which potentially led to a lot of awkward situations. In honor of all the awkwardness, Jimmy Fallon…
Activist Pens ‘A Letter To Young Muslim Girls’ Considering Joining ISIS
The Islamic State has run a slick media campaign to lure young recruits to its ranks — and the strategy has attracted women as well as men. On Feb. 17,…
With White-Knuckle Grip, February’s Cold Clings to New York
It will end. Allegedly. It will get warmer. One day. Someday. Won’t it? We have reached the 69th day of winter. It seems like the 6,669th. Pretty much the same…
How to tour ‘The Sound of Music,’ 50 years later
The film was, of course, “The Sound of Music,” the biggest grossing musical of all time, if receipts are adjusted for inflation. Its core family values, hummable tunes and stunning…
San Francisco Police Officer Hits, Kicks Homeless Man Who Slept On Bus (VIDEO)
SAN FRANCISCO — Video recorded on a city bus shows a San Francisco police officer kicking and hitting a homeless man after the officer apparently struggled to wake the man…
F.B.I. Warrant in Insider Trading Cases Is Unsealed
The scene sent a chill through Wall Street and fueled some of the biggest insider trading convictions in a generation: F.B.I. agents marched into hedge fund offices in Manhattan, Connecticut…
Guy Says Scarlett Johansson Stole His Band Name, ‘The Singles’
www.newser.com: Scarlett Johansson just announced her new band last week, and already it’s embroiled in controversy. The Singles is a pop supergroup the actress formed with Haim’s Este Haim, as…
What terrorists are really angry about
But what we do know is that it has become common, even routine, to argue that there exists a process by which potential terrorists become “radicalized.” The concept, which has…