Katy Perry Dubs Taylor Swift The ‘Sweetheart’ In The Soap Opera World Of Hollywood
If the world’s pop stars were cast in a soap opera, Taylor Swift would be the “sweetheart,” according to Katy Perry. – For more from Perry’s interview, head over to…
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Tobias The Boxer Puppy Tries To Howl, Can’t Help But Snort A Little
You could say Tobias’ bark is worse than his bite, but that would be overselling the power of either one. The 3-week-old boxer puppy sure can nail a cute howl,…
Picasso’s Granddaughter Plans to Sell Art, Worrying the Market
MARSEILLE, France — Since Marina Picasso was a child, living on the edge of poverty and lingering at the gates of a French villa with her father to plead for…
Train crash shows killing zones drivers face
The Irish writer James Joyce once said an excellent puzzle would be to try to cross Dublin without walking past a pub. A similar challenge for many cities in the…
McCain vows to help Jordan secure advanced weapons
McCain and other senators met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday, just as ISIS released a video of the Jordanian pilot’s brutal execution. McCain said he would get to…
Colorado’s Pot Revenue Is So High The State May Give Residents Money Back
Colorado’s marijuana experiment was designed to raise revenue for the state and its schools, but a state law may put some of the tax money directly into residents’ pockets, causing…
Local Politics Are Fracturing European Unity
Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE The euro had been enshrined in a treaty but not yet come to life in the autumn of 1997, when Martin Feldstein, the influential president of…
Britain Nears Approval of Fertilization Technique That Combines DNA of Three People
LONDON — Despite warnings that a new ethical threshold was being crossed, British lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow the in vitro creation of babies using the DNA of three…
Jordanian Pilot’s Death Adds To Worries About U.S. Fight Against ISIS
WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State became even more complicated Tuesday, after a video posted online indicated that the militant group had killed a Jordanian pilot taking…
Moving Photos Of Rescued Dogs And Their Tattooed Humans Remind Us To Ditch Stereotypes
A couple of years ago, Nashville, Tennessee-based photographer Brian Batista started taking pictures of rescue dogs with tattooed humans — and not just because they look decidedly awesome together. He’d…
Study Shows When The Feds Leave, Colleges Go Back To Underreporting Sex Assaults
The number of sexual assaults reported by colleges and universities tends to increase by an average of 44 percent while they’re under review by the U.S. Department of Education, according…
E.P.A. Review of Keystone Pipeline Notes Potential Rise in Greenhouse Gases
WASHINGTON — An Environmental Protection Agency review of the Keystone XL pipeline emphasized that the recent drop in global oil prices might mean that construction of the pipeline could spur…
Ta-Nehisi Coates Praises ‘Joyous Heretic’ Andrew Sullivan’s Blog
Last week, Andrew Sullivan announced he would be shuttering his pioneering political blog, The Dish, after 15 years of near-daily musings. The reasons for Sullivan’s exit from the blogosphere were…
Obama’s misguided corporate tax giveaways
President Obama’s new budget includes a mixed bag of tax reforms, including progressive proposals to create a fairer income tax, as well as misguided corporate giveaways. On the individual side,…
Senate Approves Bill Aimed At Reducing Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans
The Senate has approved a bill aimed at reducing a suicide epidemic among military veterans, sending the measure to President Barack Obama. – The bill would require the Pentagon and…
Setting up first veto, House to vote on Keystone bill next week
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, told reporters Tuesday that the measure would pass and would be sent to the President’s desk. The House already passed a similar version of…
Florida teacher saves 38 children from burning bus
On December 3, eighth-grade math teacher Kristina Buhrman was filling in as a bus driver for Discovery Academy in Lake Alfred Florida, as she often does. By all accounts, that…
Brutally Honest: Is it OK to discipline another parent’s child?
I’m pretty sure if that happened in my household, it would be a race between my husband and me to see who could get to that family member first and…
How The Founders Of ‘Who What Wear’ Built An Online Empire
“Yes, You Can Make It In Fashion” is a HuffPost Style series that profiles men and women across every area of the fashion industry and explores how they rose to…
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime
A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found “direct evidence” of “systematic torture and killing” by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the lawyers on…
A Heated Path Toward S.&P.'s Legal Settlement With Prosecutors
The Justice Department, which accused S.&P. of inflating the ratings of mortgage investments that spurred the 2008 financial meltdown, sent so many prosecutors to the negotiation that they formed an…
These Brilliant Tiny Homes Can Be Built In A Day
Anyone who has house hunted in a major city recently has likely encountered one of two things: serious anxiety and a questionable amount of underutilized space. At least that’s what…
UK Parliament to vote on ‘3-parent babies’ law
The technique could prevent mitochondrial diseases but also raises significant ethical issues. Passage of the law is opposed by Catholic and Anglican church leaders, in part because the process involves…
Measles outbreak: Different states, different rules on vaccinations
Take California, for example, where more than 90 people have already been infected with measles this year. Like many states, parents in California don’t have to vaccinate their children before…
Staples, Office Depot In Advanced Merger Talks: WSJ
Feb 3 (Reuters) – Office-supply chains Staples Inc and Office Depot Inc are in advanced talks to merge, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The…
‘Eastern Lightning’: The banned religious group that has China worried
What happened next, captured by terrified onlookers on their cellphone cameras and later replayed in news reports, would shock the Chinese public and trigger an official crackdown on what Beijing…
Colorado Republicans Are Trying To Undo Recent Gun Control Measures
Colorado Republican leaders have begun a legislative push to repeal recently passed gun control measures, reigniting one of the most intense political debates in recent history. The first advance came…
Secretary Of Defense Nominee Would Reconsider Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan
The president’s nominee to be the next Pentagon chief says he would consider changing the current plans for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year…
Rand Paul Shushes A Reporter Asking About His Corporate Tax Holiday
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was so unhappy with the way a television interview was going on Monday that he shushed the reporter so that he could speak. During an interview…
Homeland Security bill faces key vote on Tuesday
READ: Reid returns to the Senate in time for DHS funding fight But Democrats oppose adding what they call “poison pill’ amendments to the $40 billion funding bill. With the…