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| GOP states revisit Obamacare as Supreme Court weighs subsidies |
| Officials in several Republican states that balked at participating in President Obama’s health-care initiative are now revisiting the issue, amid mounting panic over a possible Supreme Court decision that would revoke federal insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. Read full article » |
| Leonard Nimoy, a pop culture force as Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 83 |
| “Someday,” producer Gene Roddenberry said many decades ago, “I’m going to make a science-fiction series and put pointed ears on that guy.”The series was “Star Trek,” and the guy was Leonard Nimoy, who died Feb. 27 at 83. A tall, taut-faced actor, he had been laboring in obscurity for 15 years before Roddenberry hired him in 1966 to play the half-human, half-alien space explorer Spock. Read full article » |
| Families of slain Islamic State hostages react to outing of ‘Jihadi John’ |
| LONDON — The widow of a man killed by the masked Islamic State militant previously known as “Jihadi John” said Friday she wanted him caught alive, insisting he does not deserve an “honorable death.”Britain’s prime minister, meanwhile, defended the country’s security agencies amid questions about intelligence gathering on the man — identified by The Washington Post as Mohammed Emwazi — during his many years in Britain. Read full article » |
| Internal audit slams DHS for canceling technology to fight bio-threats |
| Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters that followed, the government has struggled to develop a reliable and easy way to detect pathogens that could signal a devastating biological attack. Read full article » |
| A long-missing Picasso was found in a FedEx package marked as a low-value handicraft |
| Pablo Picasso’s “La Coiffeuse” vanished years ago, stolen from a storage room in Paris. The cubist painting, owned by the French government and assigned to the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, wasn’t seen again until it surfaced recently in Newark, after smugglers apparently tried to ship it to the United States. Read full article » |
| The terrifying rate at which smokers die from smoking |
| Two-thirds of smokers will die early from cigarette-triggered illness -- unless they choose to kick the habit, according to new research from Australia.The study of more than 200,000 people, published this week in BMC medicine, found about 67 percent of smokers perished from smoking-related illness. That rate is higher than doctors previously estimated. Read full article » |
| 12 fascinating optical illusions show how color can trick the eye |
| The Internet erupted in an energetic debate yesterday about whether an ugly dress was blue and black or white and gold, with celebrities from Anna Kendrick (white) to Taylor Swift (black) weighing in. (For the record, I’m with Taylor — never a bad camp to be in.) Read full article » |
| Forget about posing with the president or first lady. For celebs, it’s all about selfies with Sunny and Bo. |
| Sure, celebs like their snapshots with the commander-in-chief (just ask Beyoncé, Brangelina and George Clooney).But what’s even cooler? A play date with first canines, Sunny and Bo.Here are a handful of Hollywood bigwigs who can claim bragging rights to sharing the spotlight with the distinguished dogs (bonus points if the selfie is taken with them both): Read full article » |
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