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| Obama vetoes Keystone XL bill |
| This post has been updated. President Obama has vetoed a bill authorizing the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, carrying out a threat to reject one of the first measures the Republican-led Congress sent to the president's desk. Read full article » |
| The remote Alaskan village that needs to be relocated due to climate change |
| KIVALINA, ALASKA — This tiny and isolated town of 400 cannot be reached by road. It lies on a fragile barrier island along the Chukchi Sea, 83 miles above the Arctic circle. And for generations, the Iñupiaq Eskimos of the region have hunted gigantic bowhead whales from camps atop the sea ice that stretches out from the town’s icy shores. Read full article » |
| Islamic State said to abduct at least 70 Christians in Syria |
| BEIRUT — Islamic State militants in eastern Syria have captured at least 70 Assyrian Christians — including many women and children — in one of the largest recent abductions against religious minorities by the extremists, watchdog groups said Tuesday. Read full article » |
| George Zimmerman won’t face civil rights charges in Trayvon Martin’s death |
| The Justice Department announced Tuesday that George Zimmerman will not face federal criminal civil rights charges for shooting and killing teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.Zimmerman fatally shot Martin while the unarmed African American 17-year-old was walking in Sanford, Fla. The shooting became a national flashpoint, sparking a discussion of race relations that continues to reverberate since the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other incidents across the country. Read full article » |
| How Stephen Hawking, diagnosed with ALS decades ago, is still alive |
| On April 20, 2009, a moment arrived that doctors had foretold for decades. Stephen Hawking, a scientist who overcame debilitating disease to become the world’s most renowned living physicist, was on the cusp of death. The University of Cambridge released grim prognoses. Hawking, diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of 21, was described as “very ill” and “undergoing tests” at the hospital. Newspapers ran obituary-esque articles. It seemed time was up for the man who so eloquently explained it. Read full article » |
| After 75 years, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to be republished in Germany |
| MUNICH — Old copies of the offending tome are kept in a secure “poison cabinet,” a literary danger zone in the dark recesses of the vast Bavarian State Library. A team of experts vets every request to see one, keeping the toxic text away from the prying eyes of the idly curious or those who might seek to exalt it. Read full article » |
| D.C. mayor: Despite legal pot, city will not become ‘like Amsterdam’ |
| D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed Tuesday that the nation’s capital will not become another Amsterdam when marijuana legalization takes effect Thursday.Bowser said she would ask the D.C. Council to approve emergency legislation to prohibit private clubs from following the model of Amsterdam coffee shops, where pot could be openly exchanged. Read full article » |
| Zendaya blasts ‘Fashion Police’ host Giuliana Rancic’s ‘ignorant’ red carpet dis |
| E!’s acerbic fashion review show “Fashion Police” may have finally crossed a red line.Host Giuliana Rancic employed not one but two racially tinged stereotypes to criticize Disney Channel star Zendaya Coleman’s red carpet look: a sleek Vivienne Westwood gown and dreadlocks. Read full article » |
| Girls basketball teams try to lose game to each other, both get postseason ban |
| If only the Smyrna and Riverdale girls had Herm Edwards as their coach. He surely would have pointed out to them that “you play to win the game.” (He might also have tossed in a sarcastic, “Hello?” Which would have been great.) Read full article » |
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