Decided to break that up into two posts.
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conulyEurope'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.
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.
