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Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s...
The Westboro Baptist Church has a long history of media-soliciting domestic and international hate protests, with pickets targeting the funerals of dead children at Sandy Hook, fallen soldiers and...
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Judge orders anti-gay-marriage bakery to end discrimination
Make wedding cakes for everyone or pay penalties. So ordered administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer on Friday of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery in suburban Denver. The ACLU hauled shop owner Jack...
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Campbell’s Soup apologizes for tasteless Pearl Harbor SpaghettiOs Tweet
Uh oh, SpaghettiOs, indeed. Campbell Soup Company apologized Saturday evening for an absurd Twitter post made Friday night tying its brand to the Pearl Harbor attacks of Dec. 7, 1941. We apologize for...
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WTO agrees to trillion-dollar trade deal
The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Saturday struck a “historic” deal on international commerce that could add up to $1 trillion to the global economy. The agreement falls far short of the WTO’s...
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Newborns may be more cognitively developed than we think
Angela Saini, The Observer My baby could not look more like a subject in a laboratory experiment. Wearing a soft white skullcap attached by long wires to an EEG machine measuring his brain activity, he...
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Killer storm moves through southwest US; 11 dead
From California to Colorado and from Texas to Tennessee, snow and ice and freezing rain has pummeled the Southwestern U.S. in a crazy cold front that left Las Vegas below freezing and has killed at...
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AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder demand; FBI can secretly turn...
In the age of modern digital surveillance, AT&T can keep its silence about what it tells the government, while the FBI can make your laptop keep its silence even while it’s secretly filming you....
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Afrikaners fear post-Mandela ‘night of the long knives’
GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE Dirk Smit’s reaction to the death of Nelson Mandela, it would be fair to assume, puts him in the minority of South Africans. “Sort of indifferent, to be honest,” he said flatly of...
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ATF used mentally disabled as bait, other rogue tactics in stings across the...
Aaron Key wasn’t sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid smoking a joint. But the guys running Squid’s Smoke Shop in Portland, Ore., convinced him…
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Germany’s President Joachim Gauck becomes first major political figure to...
The German president has become the first major political figure to boycott the Sochi Winter Olympics in February. According to German weekly Der Spiegel, Joachim Gauck last week informed the Kremlin...
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It’s time for brain science to ditch the ‘Venus vs. Mars’ cliche
Reports trumpeting basic differences between male and female brains are biological determinism at its most trivial, says the science writer of the year As hardy perennials go, there is little to beat...
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Statue of pharaoh Tutankhamon’s sister stolen during 2011 Egyptian riots...
Egypt said on Sunday it has recovered a statue of pharaoh Tutankhamun’s sister looted from the southern Mallawi museum during riots by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The 32 centimetre...
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Rand Paul: Unemployment benefits program is a ‘disservice’ to black workers
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday said that he opposed extending a program to for emergency unemployment benefits because it did a “disservice” to African-American workers. During an interview on Fox...
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Archbishop of Canterbury hails Nelson Mandela’s ‘courage in face of evil’
The leader of the world’s Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, paid tribute to Nelson Mandela’s courage on Sunday at a special church service for the anti-apartheid icon in London. “Great...
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Activists say U.S. is trying to railroad secret talks at Trans-Pacific...
Activists accused the United States on Sunday of trying to railroad a new Pacific trade pact with 11 partners as their trade ministers entered a second day of secretive talks. The meetings, due to end...
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel backs NATO force in Afghanistan post-2014
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told American troops on Sunday that he supports a NATO force in Afghanistan after 2014, as Washington and President Hamid Karzai wrangle over a stalled security pact....
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Ukraine protests draw 200,000 to anti-Yanukovych rally
Hundreds of thousands of pro-EU Ukrainians rallied in Kiev on Sunday for a new protest aimed at forcing President Viktor Yanukovych to resign after he sparked fury by rejecting an EU pact under Kremlin...
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Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra offers elections as...
Thailand’s embattled premier said Sunday she was willing to call an election to end mass anti-government protests as the kingdom’s political crisis deepened with the mass resignation of opposition MPs....
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One month after Super Typhoon Haiyan, survivors struggle to put their lives...
A month after one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded hit the Philippines, masses of survivors are living amid rubble in rebuilt shanty homes and experts say reconstructing destroyed communities...
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Secessionist movement emerges in rural Maryland
By day, Scott Strzelcyzk is an IT consultant in this rural Appalachian corner of the US state of Maryland. By night, he’s something of a modern-day American revolutionary. “It’s time for a 51st state!”...
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