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New IRIS telescope sends stunning images of sun to befuddled scientists
Scientists say IRIS, launched last month, will help shed light…
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Pope Francis asks Brazil’s youth to help ‘the innocent and the defenseless’
By Philip Pullella and Anthony Boadle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged young people on Friday to change a world where food is discarded while millions go hungry, where racism and violence...
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Former Tiffany & Co. exec pleads guilty to stealing $2.1 million in jewelry
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former executive at jeweler Tiffany & Co pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $2 million worth of jewelry from her one-time employer. Ingrid...
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Zimmerman’s brother warns: Civil suit ‘might not be very flattering’ for...
Robert Zimmerman, whose younger brother George was acquitted for his role in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told The Huffington Post on Friday that a civil suit might lead to unpleasant facts...
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Apple restores some access to developers’ website after attack
By Aman Shah (Reuters) – Apple Inc has partially restored its main website for developers, eight days after shuttering it in response to a cyber attack that prompted a harried upgrade to prevent future...
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Highway Patrol officer accused of sexual battery against disabled man
A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was arrested and charged with sexual battery and disorderly conduct on Friday for allegedly touching a 22-year-old disabled man inappropriately inside a...
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Seven killed, hundreds injured in new round of dueling protests in Egypt
By Asma Alsharif and Matt Robinson CAIRO (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and hundreds wounded in scattered violence across Egypt during mass rallies for and against the army’s overthrow...
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Judge in Bradley Manning trial begins weighing her verdict
The military judge overseeing the trial of US soldier Bradley Manning over his massive transfer of secret files to WikiLeaks began considering her verdict after closing arguments. After hearing the...
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JPMorgan Chase stops selling physical commodities amid federal pressure
By David Sheppard and Jonathan Leff NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co is exiting physical commodities trading, the bank said in a surprise statement on Friday, as Wall Street’s role in the...
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Schools damaged in Texas plant explosion to get $2.75 million from FEMA
By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) – Schools damaged by a West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion will receive $2.75 million in federal funds for temporary classrooms and administrative...
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Maher confronts liberal priest: ‘God in the Old Testament is a psychotic mass...
Real Time host and aggressive non-theist Bill Maher grilled a progressive minister on Friday over the litany of contradictions he found between the written word of the Bible and how many people...
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NC Governor admits: ‘I don’t know enough’ about parts of new voting...
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) indicated on Friday he would sign a restrictive new law governing voting registrations in his state while admitting he was not familiar with one provision forbidding...
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Kerry asks Egyptian leaders to pull country ‘back from the brink’
By Arshad Mohammed and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Egypt’s leaders must pull their country “back from the brink,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, saying Egypt was at a...
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Blood pressure medications shown to help slow dementia
A class of drugs designed to lower blood pressure also slightly brakes the progression of dementia among the elderly and may even boost brain power marginally, a study published on Friday said. Doctors...
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Friends defend suspect driver in Spanish train disaster
Some paint him as a reckless man who boasted about driving his Spanish trains at massive speed, before crashing one, leaving 78 people dead and 178 injured. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo’s friends and...
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CNN anchor Don Lemon: Bill O’Reilly ‘doesn’t go far enough’ in criticizing...
CNN anchor Don Lemon came to the defense of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Saturday regarding O’Reilly’s heavily-criticized take regarding crime in the African-American community. “In my estimation, he...
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Abuse at Ecuadorian ‘gay conversion’ facilities shocks authorities
Sent to a center offering to “cure” her attraction to women, Denisse Freire was raped and tortured — in a practice Ecuadoran authorities admit has been tolerated for too long. The country of 15.8...
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Bride-to-be thought dead in freak speedboat accident
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The pilot of a speedboat that was carrying six members of a wedding party when it crashed into a barge on the Hudson River was charged on Saturday with vehicular manslaughter in...
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Florida activists denied food during sit-in at state Capitol
Police at the Florida state Capitol refused to allow food deliveries on Saturday to a student group that has been engaged in a sit-in there for the past 12 days, before apparently reversing their...
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NBC criticized for broadcasting anti-LGBT Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics
Officials at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) promised on Friday that visitors and competitors in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia would not be affected by the country’s...
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