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As political groups allegedly pay internet trolls to spew racial slurs and cyber-bully, netizens express their disgust over the depths to which politics in Trinidad and Tobago have plunged. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekThe war that changed the American social landscape forever also affected its physical one. Revisit some of the most famous battlefields in American Civil War history, and how they look today. Gettysburg An early photograph of Little Rou...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
The Weather Channel’s Dave Malkoff reports on the damage caused by a deadly tornado that tore through a small community in Illinois. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CNN.com
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderApple just added a ton of new emoji to its roster (including, finally, racially diverse emoji), but we're still waiting on a few more. Where are the cupcakes? Where are the shot glasses? Come on, Tim Cook! How do these not already exist?...
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- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalSyrian rebels shell government-held Aleppo neighborhood, killing at least 5
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderTo make it through 2015 without going into crippling default, Venezuela must break promises that made it possible for late President Hugo Chavez to build a strong relationship with Latin American and Caribbean nations largely forgotten b...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by NBC NewsHawaii Telescope Construction Paused | NBC News The Thirty Meter Telescope is under construction atop the Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii, a site regarded as sacred by locals. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderMOSCOW (AP) — Two of Russia's best-known movie directors are aiming to create a chain of fast-food restaurants that would be an alternative to Western-style operations such as McDonald's. The move by Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalov...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderThis past Friday morning, I woke up at 2:45 am just so I could preorder the Apple Watch , which went on sale at 3 am. Despite my efforts of waking up early and constantly refreshing the Apple Store web page, I still have to wait well o...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by VICE NewsThe War Against Boko Haram (Part 3) Watch Part 1: http://bit.ly/1af1cIz Watch Part 2: http://bit.ly/1FtEtGP Since 2009, the militant Islamist group known as Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in northern Nigeria. Instilling terror... From: VIC...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CNN.comThose poor fish must have been wondering what the heck was happening to them.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CNN.comGovernment officials are trying to track down vacationers who stayed at villas in the Virgin Islands who may have been exposed to a deadly pesticide.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by TheNewYorkTimes2015 Kia Sedona SX | Driven: Car Review | The New York Times Families have been filling their driveways with crossovers, but minivans, like Kia's new Sedona, still offer a lot of utility. Produced by: Tom Voelk/Driven Read the story ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
After more than 120,000 people signed a White House petition, the administration announced support for bans on conversion therapy, a largely discredited practice that attempts to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of LGBT p... - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by msnbcHouston Mayor Annise Parker: Leading Lady | msnbc When Annise Parker was first elected mayor of Houston in 2009, people balked that a deep south city was the first to elect an openly gay Mayor. Texans weren't--they had already electe...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Newsmax - NewsfrontThe United States has bunker-busting bombs that can shut down, set back and destroy Iran's nuclear program, and the military option has not been taken off the table when it comes to the ongoing negotiations with that country, according t...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekHow will the Russian middle class react to the effects of low oil prices, Western sanctions and deep-set economic problems, a state of affairs that some economists have dubbed the “triple whammy”? Unfortunately, these problems are only p...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by USA TODAYRaw SC dashcam video: 'I just shot somebody' Newly released raw dashcam video reveals some of the conversation that took place in the moments following the fatal shooting of a South Carolina man by an officer. From: USA TODAY Vie...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderKnown as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," the ADX maximum security prison in Florence Colorado is home to some of the most violent criminals in US history. The ADX opened in 1994 to fill the void left by the now-shuttered penit...
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"This latest curtailment of freedom of expression further restricts public discourse and will create a void in Malaysian social media and a deafening silence in news forums." - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalBangladesh tightens security ahead of expected execution of 1971 war crimes convict
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderThe first Apple Watch reviews came out this week, and they weren't great . Reviewers did praise the design and the way it lets you leave your phone in your pocket more, and blogger John Gruber had a great non-cynical take on t...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
Sam Holtz, a 12-year-old from Illinois, emerged at the very top of the ESPN bracket challenge, beating out more than 11 million other Americans. He joins Steve Kornacki to show how he did it. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comBen Crenshaw seemed as credible a source as any. The 63-year-old Masters legend had just finished his final round of competition at Augusta National on Friday evening, walking away from a tournament he had played 44 times. And so it seem...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NYT > WorldPresident Obama came to the Summit of the Americas in Panama determined to defuse a generations-old regional dispute over Cuba’s exclusion from the meeting.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderLiverpool (AFP) - Leighton Aspell rode Many Clouds to land Saturday's Grand National which followed his success last year in the Aintree marathon on Pineau de Re. Trained by Oliver Sherwood and owned by Trevor Hemmings, Many Clouds was g...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by The Young TurksBobby Jindal Wants Islamists Banned Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of The Young Turks discusses recent comments by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and his desire to ban radical Islamists. Louisiana Gov. Bobby... From:...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CNN.comKenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate them ourselves."
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesHere's all the recalls that have happened over the last week. Remember, if you've purchased recalled foods, you can often return it to the vendor for a full refund.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderAugusta (United States) (AFP) - Jordan Spieth carried a five-stroke lead into Masters weekend on Saturday, aiming to convert two days of inspired golf into a first major title at the tender age of 21. The Texan has set Augusta National a...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekPANAMA CITY (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at a summit in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture as the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold War foes. A photograph showed Ob...
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- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World News From SFGateFormal summit session starts late President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak fifth, while a highly anticipated speech President Raul Castro, who is representing communist Cuba at the summit for the first time, comes near the end of the...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekAs sophisticated as modern medicine has become, the best method available to doctors to insert a catheter is still to use their own two hands, a needle and some wire. Hugo Guterman, an engineer at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, wants t...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World - latimes.comAfter a late-night handshake and an exchange of pleasantries, Presidents Obama and Raul Castro were expected Saturday to sit down to an extended face-to-face meeting, the first such encounter between the United States and Cuba in more th...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekSince 1999, 34 states have seen “at least a modest decline” in their prison populations, but 16 have recorded upswings, according to new data released by the Sentencing Project that demonstrate incarceration rates vary dramatically betwe...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World on HuffingtonPost.comWEIMAR, Germany (AP) — Buchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had "lost his sense of reality" when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being liberated, bringing an end to the long ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CNN.comThe commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency will make an emergency visit to the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria on Saturday, a spokesman says.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by CNNCuban dissidents clash with Castro supporters Tensions are high between Cuban protesters pushing for democracy and supporters of Raul Castro during the VII Summit of the Americas. From: CNN Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 02:11 More in News &am...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderSNL secrets, scandals, affairs. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: This is what happens to your brain and body when you check your phone before bed
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderIn this excerpt from British journalist of Russian heritage Peter Pomerantsev 's book " Nothing is True and Everything is Possible ," he describes what it's like to attend a modern day "gold digger academy" in Russi...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NewsweekHillary Clinton is gearing up to announce her presidential campaign, perhaps as soon as this weekend . So we're republishing our 1993 cover story on the soon-to-be candidate, published just a month after the Clintons entered the White Ho...
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Between 2 and 15 percent. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World News: CBSnews.comIt is the first time since the height of the Cold War that the presidents of both nations have met face-to-face. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener. Your world in 90 seconds.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Nation & World - chicagotribune.comPublic debate continues to rage in Lake County without the benefit of key information about the shooting of 17-year-old Justus Howell by Zion police.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by USA TODAYVideo captures chaotic brawl in Walmart parking lot The Cottonwood, Arizona police department released a video that appears to show an officer shooting a man. Police say a chaotic brawl broke out between police and members of the Gaver f...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Uploads by msnbcJohn Lewis Publishes 'March: Book Two' | msnbc Rachel Maddow talks with Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell, co-authors and artist of the graphic novel trilogy “March”, chronicling the civil rights struggles...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalSurvivors, US veterans mark 70th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation, recall horror of camp
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldCrucial aid shipments carrying much-needed medical supplies have finally reached Yemen. NPR's Tamara Keith talks to Nuha, the humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam in Yemen.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of AmericaPolling stations opened in Nigeria Saturday for the final stage of a historic election cycle with voters returning to the polls to elect governors and other state representatives. The concluding phase comes just two weeks after President...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldThe explosion in the southern tourist island of Samui wounded seven people. The government has blamed the activists opposed to the country's ruling junta.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsThe FBI said it had opened an investigation into the incident and the results would be referred to federal prosecutors, the San Bernardino Sun newspaper reported.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of America"Houston, we've had a problem." Those words were uttered 45 years ago by American astronaut Jack Swigert after an explosion on the Apollo 13 mission to the moon. The explosion of an oxygen tank on April 13, 1970, when the vessel was near...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldColbert King, Washington Post Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, writing about Iran in the New Jersey Jewish Standard on April 1, sought to alter perspectives on that country with some speculation about race. “Imagine if Ayatollah Ali [Khamenei] was...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsExonerated men will receive about $1.6 million from the state for their wrongful imprisonment, a judge ruled on Friday.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Daily DotAn animated image is worth a thousand stump speeches.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack on a Kansas military base to help the Islamic State group is mentally ill and was acting strangely days before his arrest, according to a Muslim cleric who said he was c...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | WORLDThere is speculation Obama would use the weekend meeting to announce his decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe surveillance-camera images appear to show thieves robbing a high-security safety deposit facility in London’s diamond district. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldMargolis, Bloomberg View Earlier this week, a stealth protestor dropped a handful of rodents on the floor of a congressional committee room in Brasilia where lawmakers were grilling a ruling party apparatchik accused of raiding the state...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from TORONTO STAR | NEWS | WORLDFar from making Canadians safer, the Conservatives’ Anti-Terrorism Act only serves to place us in more jeopardy.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsExperts examine both traditional pathways in higher education as well as less traditional routes for students to learn about and prepare for careers in public and foreign policy as part of the 2015 Conference on Diversity in Internationa...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The WeekToday in "memos you wish you didn't need to send," Attorney General Eric Holder penned a reminder to all Department of Justice employees that soliciting prostitutes is a no-no. "I want to reiterate to all Department personnel, including ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CBC | World NewsMourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, S.C., to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North Charleston.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe International Committee of the Red Cross says a plane loaded with badly needed aid has landed in Yemen's rebel-held capital. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CTVNews.ca - World - Public RSSAn Egyptian criminal court sentenced a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen on a monthslong hunger strike to life in prison Saturday on charges of financing an anti-government sit-in and spreading false news.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsNEW YORK (AP) - Four elderly people were found dead in a home Friday in an apparent carbon monoxide poisoning after a car was left running in an attached garage, police said.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsAntony Blinken discusses strategic issues following his recent trip to the Middle East and the Maghreb.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comAn Afghan health official says more than 100 students from the same school in the country's western Herat province have been hospitalized after falling ill. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of AmericaThe Saudi-led coalition launched new airstrikes Saturday against Shi'ite Houthi insurgents in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, killing at least 22 people. Riyadh's coalition carried out its aerial bombardment for the 17th straight day...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Top News StoriesSUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Mourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, South Carolina to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a traffic stop in North ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldThe Vatican is facing accusations of homophobia after failing to deny claims that France’s new choice of ambassador to the Holy See has effectively been rejected because of his sexuality. Laurent Stefanini, the openly gay diplomat ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comBuchenwald survivor Henry Oster recalls thinking that a fellow inmate had "lost his sense of reality" when he said 70 years ago Saturday that the concentration camp was being liberated, bringing an end to the long ordeal of the...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldPierre Atlas, Indianapolis Star The nuclear framework agreement reached in Lausanne, Switzerland last week between Iran and the "P5 plus 1" (the UN Security Council permanent members United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and Franc...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldKeith Ellison, New York Times WASHINGTON — AYAN HASAN works as a medical professional in Minnesota to support her family in Somalia. Her mother, stepmother, six siblings and her blind uncle depend on her remittances, the money she ...
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsNgozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the state of the Nigerian economy in the context of recent developments.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsA better way forward in the Middle East.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of AmericaFidelia Rodriguez looks at photos of the Smith family, the Americans who once owned the home she has lived in all her life. She lives behind the big house where the Smiths raised their children, a property now owned by the Cuban state. H...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsCarla Harris launches the 2015 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs with a keynote address following a welcome message by James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council o...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Vancouver Sun - News / World CPThe final crunch ahead of the March 31 deadline for a framework agreement between the P5+1 and Iran on a comprehensive nuclear deal turned into a week of high drama that continued two days after the deadline.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe violence comes as the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees plans to visit Damascus over concerns about the situation in the refugee camp of Yarmouk. … Click to Continue »
- Monday, April 13, 2015 from CFR.org - The Council on Foreign RelationsExperts discuss how the new Congress will address a range of pressing foreign policy issues.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comRescuers say that a 7-year-old British boy fell off a rocky outcropping to his death in a skiing accident in the French Alps during a family vacation. … Click to Continue »
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The Daily Mirror newspaper has published surveillance-camera images that appear to shows several men entering and leaving the building repeatedly over the Easter weekend. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA car bomb explosion that slightly injured seven people on the popular resort island of Samui in southern Thailand may be linked to the country's political turmoil, a spokesman for the military government said Saturday. … Click to ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldLucy Hunter Johnston, Independent If you want to be Prime Minister, don't have a past.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comThe gang members, dressed in fluorescent vests and hard hats, calmly carried bags and wheeled garbage bins into a high-security storage facility in London's diamond district. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of AmericaInsurgents bombarded a government-held part of Syria's second city Aleppo overnight, killing at least five people, a group monitoring the war said. State TV broadcast pictures is showing heavily damaged buildings and streets strewn with ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Philly.com National/World NewsUS-EGYPT-COURT-BROTHERHOOD:Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, others to death
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldIn a moment some have looked forward to for more than 50 years, the presidents of the U.S. and Cuba met at the annual Summit of the Americas.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Voice of AmericaNigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has called on prospective voters and all citizens to ensure Saturday’s gubernatorial election is peaceful and devoid of intimidation and harassment. Reuben Abati, spokesman for President Jonathan, sa...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comNot since the height of the Cold War have the presidents of the United States and Cuba met face to face. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from RealClearWorldSteven Metz, World Politics Review Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a diplomatic framework designed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Opposition to the negotiations in Washington, which was intense all along,...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comNigerians are voting for state governors and assemblies in elections Saturday in which the opposition hopes to make gains following its victory that unseated President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks ago. … Click to Continue »
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.comA court in the Maldives has sentenced a former defense minister to 10 years in prison on charges of detaining a senior judge, the same case in which a former president has also been jailed in a trial widely criticized as politically moti...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Global News : World
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a busy day ahead at the Summit of the Americas in Panama. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Raw Story » WorldA car bomb on the Thai resort island of Samui has wounded seven people, including an Italian girl, police said Saturday, in a further blow to the country’s tarnished reputation as a top tourist destination. The bomb, packed inside ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NPR Topics: WorldMany Liberians who helped battle the virus weren't full-fledged health workers. Now that the outbreak has subsided, they feel forgotten, neglected and stigmatized.
