It's the last (half) day of school!

Yay. Ana didn't even want to attend, but I told her I didn't care if she slept the day away so long as she did it *in school* and she finally rolled out of bed.

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That *is* a strange dog!

Al-Qaida’s Seven Rules for the Effective Terrorist

ISIS is breaking all of them. It will live to regret it.

Iraq's Christians seek refuge with Kurds

Armed Kurds are winning favour by protecting religious minorities.

France warns citizens: Don't invest in Israeli settlements, Golan Heights

Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say

Investment Strategies in a Post-Apocalyptic World

Two Georgia teenagers were left in a county courthouse holding cell from Friday to Monday with no food, lights, or toilet paper, Dave Huddleston WSB Atlanta reports.

A global industry in so-called environmental crime—which includes everything from selling elephant ivory to illegal fishing to illicit logging and more—is worth between $70 billion and $213 billion a year and largely finances criminal, militia, and terrorist groups, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations and INTERPOL.

Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time

Every time a public figure behaves with less-than-stellar competence, we're incredulous. We probably shouldn't be

Icelandic Skyr Is Coming for Greek Yogurt

US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report

Whole Foods will pay about $800,000 in penalties and fees after an investigation found the grocery retailer was overcharging customers in California.

Missouri training teachers to carry concealed weapons in the classroom

The Obama administration has released into the U.S. an untold number of immigrant families caught traveling illegally from Central America in recent months.

Barnes & Noble (BKS), the struggling bookseller, saw its shares jump 8% Wednesday after saying it will spin off its Nook digital book business.

How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen

A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand

Decided to break that up into two posts.

Europe's migrant influx: 'we need help but we don’t know where from'

Now Is the Moment for Kurdish Independence

Middle East borders are vanishing, and the U.S. should adjust its diplomacy accordingly.

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith -- and then released -- has been charged on two criminal counts after trying to leave the African country for the United States, her legal team said Wednesday.

Susan Collins becomes fourth GOP senator to side with gay marriage

Russian lawmakers revoke Putin's power to use military in Ukraine

Yet another Republican compares gay Americans to pedophiles

On Thursday, a 31-year-old Denver woman named Amelia Earhart will take off from Oakland, Calif., to re-create the around-the-world flight that famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart attempted in 1937.

We might never have heard of Deeb Salem if he hadn’t sued Goldman over a too-small $8.25M bonus. But now we know how much they made betting against their customers—and got away with it.

Meet the Groups Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids

Republicans say it is a matter of states’ rights.

Americans today have more social and educational opportunity than they did 40 years ago -- but they have less economic opportunity, thanks to a bruising recession and the alarming economic trends that preceded it.

Minors remain jailed for life despite US supreme court ban on such sentences

Obama: Workplace flexibility and unpaid leave not 'women's issues'

Syrian radicals 'brainwash' kidnapped Kurdish schoolchildren

Hundreds of villagers fleeing advances by Sunni militants in Iraq crowded on Thursday under the morning sun at a checkpoint on the edge of the country's Kurdish-controlled territory, trying to join large numbers of displaced who have already sought shelter in the relative safety of the largely autonomous region.

Ebola has now killed nearly 400 people in West Africa and infected 635, and urgent efforts are now needed to control it, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Pakistan's refugee crisis fuels danger of spreading polio virus

SWAT Teams Armed With Military Equipment Spend Most of Their Time Waging the Drug War

EPA appeals to its workers not to poop in the hallway

“Free” Wi-Fi from Xfinity and AT&T also frees you to be hacked

IKEA to raise its minimum wage

US Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic buffer zones

Iraq insurgents seize oilfields, hit air base as U.S. advisers arrive

ISIS Cashing in on Looted Antiquities to Fuel Iraq Insurgency

Astronomers have detected a mysterious signal in X-ray data from a study of galaxy clusters, and they think the X-rays could have been produced by the decay of sterile neutrinos, a type of particle proposed as a candidate for dark matter.

An Israeli human rights watchdog hailed as unprecedented Tuesday a court order for the state to pay compensation to Palestinians prevented from farming their land by a wildcat Jewish settlement.

The court awarded six Palestinian landowners a total of 300,000 shekels ($85,700) in compensation for their losses from the presence on their land in the northern West Bank of the Amona settlement outpost, which even the Israeli government regards as illegal.

Analysis of the oldest reported trace of human faeces has added weight to the view that Neanderthals ate vegetables.

Found at a dig in Spain, the ancient excrement showed chemical traces of both meat and plant digestion.