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| This is historic: The dollar will soon be worth more than the euro |
| There's a currency war going on, and the United States is losing. As of Wednesday, the euro had fallen to a 12-year low of $1.05, down from as much as $1.39 just last year. That's a 30 percent drop in 11 months, to be exact, and there's no reason to expect it to stop anytime soon. Read full article » |
| Absence of 2016 competition for Clinton raises stakes for Democrats |
| For many months, Democrats have claimed they want an open competition for their party’s 2016 presidential nomination, although many didn’t really believe it. They were actually content to see Hillary Rodham Clinton run virtually unopposed. This week, some of them must be rethinking. Read full article » |
| In wake of GOP letter to Iran, battle erupts over blame for dysfunction |
| The reaction from Washington’s foreign policy establishment was that President Obama’s authority as commander in chief had been challenged in a new and unprecedented way.Forty-seven Republican senators, openly seeking to undercut the president, signed a letter to Iran’s leaders threatening to undo any agreement reached with the United States regarding their country’s nuclear program. Read full article » |
| Iraqi forces battle Islamic State in streets of strategic Tikrit |
| BAGHDAD —The fight for Tikrit moved into the streets Wednesday as Iraqi forces pushed past bomb-laced cordons in attempts to oust Islamic State militants from the strategic gateway city.The clashes marked the first within the city limits since the government launched its offensive to retake the area earlier this month, and they signaled possible gains in the important showdown over the city about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad. Read full article » |
| Why did victims in Islamic State beheading videos look so calm? They didn’t know it was real. |
| For all their stage-managed professionalism, the videos of killings released by the Islamic State have often left viewers confused about the exact circumstances of what was being shown in the video. Their videos of beheadings, for instance, do not show the act itself, which initially led some to speculate that they may have been faked. Read full article » |
| Aaron Hernandez: On trial for murder, trying not to laugh |
| FALL RIVER, Mass. — The first 23 days of Aaron Hernandez’s murder trial apparently had failed to dim the former New England Patriots tight end’s spirits. Tuesday |
| The day I broke my baby |
| There are things I wish I didn’t know.I wish I didn’t know that companies make tiny braces, small enough to hold necks no bigger than a wrist. I wish I didn’t know that when babies are transported in an ambulance, they are stripped of their powdery-smelling clothes and strapped to adult-sized gurneys, naked. I wish I didn’t know that little bodies that are supposed to eat every two hours can go more than 12 hours without a drop of milk and be satiated by a pacifier dipped in sugar water. Read full article » |
| The sun set on the British Empire, but Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘Top Gear’ is still a global superpower |
| After what has been described by the BBC as a "fracas" and what the British media says was a fist-fight over catering, Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British broadcaster's flagship driving show "Top Gear," has been suspended. The future of the show hangs in the balance. Read full article » |
| It’s okay if you hate Robin Thicke. But the ‘Blurred Lines’ verdict is bad for pop music. |
| Will Madonna sue Lady Gaga? Will George Clinton sue OutKast? Will Prince sue Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and umpteen-hundred others? And then will Little Richard sue Prince?These idiotic questions became frighteningly legitimate after a federal jury in Los Angeles ruled that singer Robin Thicke and producer Pharrell Williams had committed copyright infringement. The jurors decided that yes, Thicke’s 2013 chart-topping single “Blurred Lines” had copied elements of Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up,” and awarded Gaye’s family a walloping $7.4 million. The titles of the two songs in question could not have been more fitting. Read full article » |
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