Frank McGurty, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters)—Tensions between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police are rooted in issues that go beyond racial...
Ellen Huet, FORBES (Forbes.com)—Uber has been hit with class-action lawsuits from cab companies and Uber’s own drivers, but the newest group to enter the fray is Uber passengers. Two...
Joseph Adinolfi and Barbara Kollmeyer, MARKETWATCH NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Santa continued to shower gifts on stock-market investors, as the S&P 500 index and the...
Erik Hayden, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (HollywoodReporter.com)—Ever since Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal’s hacked email inbox recently showed Jan. 2014 message that read “Idris should be...
Mitchell Peters, BILLBOARD (Billboard.com)—The 37-year-old rapper and actor, whose real name is Chris Bridges, recently proposed to his girlfriend Eudoxie Agnan by taking her up...
Peter Orsi, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — A half-century after Washington severed relations with Cuba, the United States’ seven-story mission looms over Havana’s seaside Malecon...
Thomas Beaumont, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One group of potential candidates for president probably won’t be shuffling off to Iowa, New Hampshire or...
Rich Cimini, ESPN (ESPN.com)—After months of speculation, New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is bracing for his ouster on Monday. Ryan told friends he expects to...
Nathan Mattise, ARS TECHNICA (ArsTechnica.com)—This holiday season, the NSA participated in a longstanding media tradition—dumping a large bit of news during a busy period of...
Rick Gladstone, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—“Exodus: Gods and Kings,” the $140 million Hollywood film about the biblical escape of the Jews from...
Andrew Chung, REUTERS (Reuters)—One of the dozens of rallies and marches in New York this week to protest police violence against minorities was organized by...
Julie Pace and Nancy Benac, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a joke. “Are you still president?” comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack...
Lisa Leff, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the...
Amir Khan, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (U.S. News & World Report)—The more often your child eats fast food, the more likely he or she...
Hyung-Jin Kim, ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially...
PALO ALTO, Calif. (USA Today) — Even here in Silicon Valley, where this generation’s brightest minds dream up big ideas to smash the status quo, Tristan...
(HealthDay News) — Adults who experienced childhood abuse or neglect have a higher risk of migraine headaches, suggests a study published online Dec. 24 in...
(International British Times) – British scientists have been successful in creating primitive forms of artificial sperms and eggs from human skin cells, marking an achievement...
(Maine News Study) – A comparative study was carried out to know the effects of reading regular books versus e-books. Researchers from Harvard Medical School...
ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer (Associated Press) – As anyone who’s received a drugstore cologne gift set well knows, even Santa Claus gets it wrong...
(PBS) – HARI SREENIVASAN: Now: a move to make it easier for people who have been convicted of a crime to find employment after being released from...
(Tech Times) – Uber, the cab service that has been courting controversy in recent times, has pulled another fast one on passengers on Christmas Eve....
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s minimum wage will rise to the highest in the nation on Jan. 1. The Seattle Times reports (https://bit.ly/1dcGPu6) that the minimum...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Gunmen attacked the African Union’s main base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday leading to an...
BEN FOX, Associated Press ANNE-MARIE GARCIA, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Like tens of thousands of Cubans, Gerardo Luis wants to get to the United States...
