(Ars Technica) – Google’s new “Material Design” aesthetic was a big part of the Lollipop update for Android, but even if you’ve got an Android...
(Ars Technica) – While Microsoft has continued to flesh out Windows Phone’s low-end offerings, there’s an awkward gap at the high end. The Lumia Icon/930 and Lumia 1520 are both fine...
(Reuters) – Pessimism and doubt have dominated how Americans see the economy for many years. Now, in a hopeful sign for the economic outlook, confidence is...
(Business Week) – The world’s biggest oil companies faced ruin in the summer of 1931. Crude prices had plummeted. Wildcatters were selling oil from the bonanza...
(Business Week) – This summer, Sal Corallo, a high school student in suburban Long Island, got some bad news via Facebook (FB). His favorite place to play paintball,...
LISA LEFF, Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of “I can’t breathe” and...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Their disputes over who spied on whom and censoring the Senate’s scathing torture report are history. But the personal...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — The congressional fight over a $1.1 trillion spending package moved to the Senate on Friday, where passage is expected, but not...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Photojournalist Michel du Cille, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who recently captured compelling images of Ebola patients and their caretakers, died in...
(Politifact) – The primary debate over race in this country seems to be whether the country needs to have a debate at all. Polls show...
ERIKA NIEDOWSKI, Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors in a murder case against Aaron Hernandez won’t be allowed to tell a jury about two...
LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin apologized Thursday for calling Angelina Jolie a “spoiled brat” and making racially offensive...
(People) – Beverly Johnson, Vogue’s first African-American cover girl, is the latest woman to come forward with allegations of attempted sexual assault against Bill Cosby. In a detailed essay...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A gathering of black congressional staffers and other Capitol employees stood silently on the House steps Thursday and raised...
(Reuters) – The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a county...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun died from a single shot fired by a rookie police officer, according to an autopsy released...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Health workers sent to Sierra Leone to investigate an alarming spike in deaths...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberia is making progress against Ebola but stamping out the final cases so the epidemic doesn’t flare up...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. has received approval for an updated version of its Gardasil vaccine that protects against an additional five...
STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cam Newton is thankful to be alive after escaping a horrific-looking automobile accident without any life-threatening injuries....
(Texas Public Radio) – The tragic deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown at the hands of police, and the subsequent grand jury decisions, have...
(Buzzfeed) – Before Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal attended a breakfast of Hollywood bigwigs last November with Barack Obama, she emailed her friend Scott Rudin for...
(WBUR) – When you think about the musical Annie, what associations come to mind? Probably the song “Tomorrow,” right? And Annie’s bright red, curly hair? Red hair...
