'Average Looking Women:' The Army's Secret Scheme To Sell Women In Combat
Implementing women into combat roles, as was directed by former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta earlier this year, has been a tough sell to the male-dominated military community.Thankfully, the ace...
View ArticleA Bipolar Dad Is Serving Life For Stealing Three WWII Rifles, Two Bayonets,...
Florida dad Joel Daigle, who has struggled with bipolar disorder for years, is one of 3,278 Americans who will probably die in prison for a nonviolent crime.Daigle is serving life in prison without...
View ArticleGrim Photos Show Why Flesh-Eating Drug 'Krokodil' Is Spreading
Over the past few months there has been a number of concerning reports that desomorphine, a.k.a. "krokodil," a homemade alternative to heroin that is believed to have originated in Russia, may have...
View ArticleWhite House Snubs Afghan Government Request To Apologize For 'Mistakes'...
President Barack Obama's top White House foreign policy aide Tuesday adamantly declared that Washington had "no need" to apologize to Afghanistan for "mistakes" and civilian suffering during the...
View ArticleThis Simple Exchange Explains Why Iran Nuclear Talks Are So Intense
Negotiations for a deal to curb Iran's nuclear program resume on Wednesday, and an exchange between Iran's Supreme Leader and a militia loyal to him reflects an inherent tension in the halls of...
View ArticleNorth Korea May Have Detained Elderly U.S. Citizen
TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea may have detained an elderly U.S. man last month who entered the country on a tourist visa, Kyodo News Service said on Wednesday, citing an unnamed diplomatic...
View ArticleThe Stuxnet Attack On Iran's Nuclear Plant Was 'Far More Dangerous' Than...
The Stuxnet virus that ravaged Iran's Natanz nuclear facility "was far more dangerous than the cyberweapon that is now lodged in the public's imagination," cyber security expert Ralph Langer writes in...
View ArticleA New Film Exposes How Mexican Drug Cartels Became Cool
If you're a fan of Breaking Bad, you may remember a scene at the beginning of a second season episode where a Mexican band play a ballad dedicated to Walter White, a.k.a. Heisenberg, talking about...
View ArticleCritical Moments From The Day Of Kennedy's Assassination [TIMELINE]
Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, 12:30 am: Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina are not living together. While Oswald lives in a boarding house at 1026 N. Beckley Ave. in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Marina...
View ArticleLive Grenade Found At Oregon Thrift Shop
Live grenade found at Roseburg Salvation Army store; bomb squad calledROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The Salvation Army says an employee at the Roseburg store who was sorting donations found a live grenade at...
View ArticleThe Homeless Veteran Who Was Transformed In A Viral Makeover Video Has Been...
The homeless U.S. Army veteran who was shown getting a makeover in an incredible timelapse video earlier this month has been arrested, MLive reports.James Allen Wolf, 54, was arrested Nov. 17 at a...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg: This Is The Most 'Gratifying' Thing I've Ever Done
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg took the stage Wednesday night to discuss the influence she's had on gender inequality by writing her book "Lean In."She was talking with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff at...
View ArticleThe US And Afghanistan Inked A Deal To Keep The War Going Through 2024
The U.S. and Afghan governments have agreed to a final draft in a bilateral agreement that lays out the relationship between the two nations and the end to the war in Afghanistan, this according to...
View ArticleGoogle's Eric Schmidt: We Can Eliminate Censorship In A Decade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc <GOOG.O> Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold prediction: Censorship around the world could end in a decade, and better use of encryption will help people...
View ArticleUVA PROFESSOR: We Cannot Rule Out A Conspiracy To Kill John F. Kennedy
It's not just crackpots who question the conventional wisdom that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato,...
View ArticleAny Iran Nuclear Deal Won't Eliminate Bomb Breakout Risk
GENEVA (Reuters) - An interim deal to restrain Iran's nuclear program aims to make it harder for the Islamic state to build any bomb but may still leave it, at least for now, with enough material for...
View ArticleThis Short 'Umbrella Man' Documentary About JFK's Assassination Will Make You...
The New York Times has republished a short documentary called "The Umbrella Man" that discusses a man who was holding an umbrella on a sunny day in Dallas near the spot John F. Kennedy was...
View ArticleJournalist Paul Mooney On Why He Was Blocked From China And How Things Could...
After 28 years of reporting from China, journalist Paul Mooney learned on Nov. 8 that his visa had been denied.The news came on the heels of a slew of stories on increasing Chinese censorship and how...
View ArticleThe Ticking Time Bomb At The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea
THERE IS something dangerous lurking in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea. Nearly 70 years after the victorious Allies dumped thousands of tonnes of Nazi chemical weapons and chemical agents into...
View ArticleThe Crazy Story Of Frank Sinatra Playing A Club For A Week Straight Because...
The Mafia detested the administration of John F. Kennedy as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy raised the number of mob convictions from 35 in 1960 to 288 in 1963.But there may be a much deeper...
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