(Reuters) – A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish forces in Turkey rolled late on Friday across the border into Syria to help Syrian Kurds defend the besieged town of Kobani...
(Reuters) – When lawmakers return to Washington after Tuesday’s congressional elections they will resume a debate they began with some reluctance last month on the...
LOS ANGELES (USA Today) — As Oklahoma City Thunder players and coaches filed out of the Staples Center with the longest of faces Thursday night,...
(Grantland) – A couple of weeks ago, my wife and the baby and I were at the YMCA near our home in Houston. We’d gone there to go swimming, but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred...
(New York Times) – Ana Navas-Acien can’t quite recall the moment when she began to worry about arsenic in drinking water and its potential role in...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a legal decision with wide implications for strip clubs in Sin City, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled...
(USA Today) – Fast-food’s magic price point — widely regarded as $5 — may be about to jump to $6. Subway, which created the $5...
(Bloomberg) – Hackers have made the Internet a scary place to do business, as recent headlines attest. Big companies have been hacked. Small companies have...
(Slate) – On Tuesday, Slate and everyone else posted a video of a woman who is harassed more than 100 times by men as she walks around New York City...
(USA Today) – Yesterday, more than one hundred students rallied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to “speak back” to the Wainstein report. The rally...
JOHN MARSHALL, AP Basketball Writer The story seems to be the same every season at Kentucky: Lose star players to the NBA, replace them with another...
(The Huffington Post) 1. A glance between Olivia and Fitz is equal to another couple’s 1000 kisses GIF: scandalmoments.tumblr.com Ross and Rachel who? 2. And you know...
MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Republicans are calling on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to apologize after she suggested Thursday that President Barack Obama’s...
(Reuters) – Political groups that took advantage of loosened campaign-finance rules spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. This year,...
TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Shortly after showering, and maybe rinsing off a forgettable performance, LeBron James smiled and laughed as he dressed...
(USA Today) – Black Friday, the frenzied day of holiday season shopping which traditionally begins after Thanksgiving, will launch this year before trick-or-treaters have had...
(The Harvard Crimson) – Two experts in educational inequality exchanged diverging opinions on race-based affirmative action in the college admissions process at a forum at the...
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp launched a device called “Microsoft Band” that will allow users to monitor their fitness and exercise regime, marking the world’s largest software company’s debut into the...
(Reuters) – Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will develop a device to measure a user’s fatigue and map their sleep, Chief Executive Satoru...
(Reuters) – Suddenly it’s Apple versus Wal-Mart in the fight for shoppers’ digital wallets. With the development of a new mobile payment system, a group...
(The Washington Post) – When reporters asked the first U.S. man in space, Alan Shepard, what he thought about as he sat atop a Mercury...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (The Washington Post) — The Kansas City Royals clung this October to the well-founded belief they owned the most dominant bullpen in the...
