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How to Fix Our Interstates
Slate - 29 Jul 2015 17:55
I hate the Interstate Highway System. I realize that this is an awkward time to bring this up. Many of you are no doubt planning road trips, and I'm sure you're grateful for the fact that you do not have to traverse dirt...
Flight MH370 Found? Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane Wing Might Have Been Discovered Off Madagascar Coast, Investigators Studying Flight Tracks
IBTimes - 29 Jul 2015 18:57
Part of a plane wing has been discovered on Reunion Island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and investigators are looking into whether it could be from an international flight that disappeared last year. The plane pi...
ISIS-Inspired Florida Resident Arrested, Charged With Plotting To Use Weapon Of Mass Destruction
IBTimes - 29 Jul 2015 07:10
A 23-year-old Florida man was charged Tuesday with plotting to detonate a backpack bomb at a public beach. Harlem Suarez, also known as Almlak Benitez, was allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group, the U.S. Departme...
Ex-cop gets 15 years in prison for strangling wife of 40 years
New York Post - 29 Jul 2015 23:11
BALLSTON SPA, NY -- A former New York police officer who pleaded guilty to strangling his wife of four decades during a fight over money has been sentenced to 15...
Wild tiger numbers at record low
CNN - 29 Jul 2015 06:05
More tigers are kept as pets in the U.S. than roam free in the wild, campaigners say, as they call for tough new laws to ban the practice on International Tiger Day.
Annan: Africa can avoid dirty energy
CNN - 29 Jul 2015 17:27
Africa should be aiming for green energy, and leapfrog some of the dirty processes used to become prosperous.
Ivana Trump: Donald didn't rape me -- and he'd be a great president
New York Post - 29 Jul 2015 07:22
Ivana Trump rushed to the defense of The Donald Tuesday, recanting a harsh report about their divorce and saying her ex-husband would make an "incredible" president. "I have recently read...
2,000 Migrants Tried to Storm the Channel Tunnel in a Desperate Bid to Reach the U.K.
Time - 29 Jul 2015 05:21
Eurotunnel called the incident "the biggest incursion effort in the past month and a half"
Tent cities sprouting in Haiti
CNN - 29 Jul 2015 04:39
Concerns of a humanitarian emergency in Haiti are mounting as a growing number of Haitians returning to their country from neighboring Dominican Republic are living in rapidly growing tent cities with little resources.
Reports: Israeli Drone Attack Kills 3 in Southern Syria
ABC News - 29 Jul 2015 17:15
Reports: Israeli drone attack on car in southern Syrian villages kills at least 3
The Latest: Father of Colorado Theater Shooter Back on Stand
ABC News - 29 Jul 2015 17:11
The Latest: Colorado theater shooter's dad testifies for 2nd day in effort to spare son's life
GOP congressman files motion to oust House Speaker John Boehner
The Week - 29 Jul 2015 07:06
Late Tuesday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) filed a "motion to vacate the chair," a parliamentary measure seeking to unseat House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). In his motion, Meadows accused Boehner of having "endeavored t...
Hillary won't talk Keystone Pipeline -- unless she's president
New York Post - 29 Jul 2015 06:49
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton ducked on a crucial issue Tuesday, saying she won't take a position on the Keystone pipeline until she's in the White House. "If it's undecided...
How To Be A Leader When The World Is Disrupting All Around You
Forbes - 29 Jul 2015 10:34
I would not like to be a political leader today. The pressures for setting policy in uncharted terrain is pretty overwhelming: an aging population; disruptive technology moving at warp speed, leaving people stunned and o...
Hey de Blasio, put on your big-boy pants and act like our mayor
New York Post - 29 Jul 2015 06:15
Pinstriped sage Yogi Berra has been credited with the observation that "you can learn a lot by watching." Alas, such wisdom is wasted on Mayor Putz. Asked why he wasn't...
Pollard to Be Freed; US Analyst Spied for Israel
ABC News - 29 Jul 2015 06:09
US analyst Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel, to be paroled in November after 30 years
Bangladesh Upholds Opposition Leader's Death Sentence
ABC News - 29 Jul 2015 06:06
Bangladesh upholds death penalty for opposition leader for 1971 war crimes
Charting China's rise -- with pandas
CNN - 29 Jul 2015 05:31
What's in a panda? A lot, actually.
Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds declares innocence on tax charges
Chicago Tribune - 29 Jul 2015 23:38Search for Missing Florida Teens Stretches Into Sixth Day
Time - 29 Jul 2015 23:25
Fears grow for Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, both 14
The Koch Brothers are About to Destroy Veterans' Health Care and No One Knows About It
OpEdNews - 29 Jul 2015 22:53
Representative Jeff Miller's and Senator Marco Rubio's proposals -- H.R. 1994 and S. 1082 -- would do away with vital rights of veterans with the stroke of a pen. They are not alone in pushing this dangerous agenda; they...
Afghanistan probing death report
CNN - 29 Jul 2015 17:54
Afghanistan's government is investigating fresh reports that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is dead. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.