NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The French and Greek election results are being viewed as a smackdown on austerity. In France, Socialist Francois Hollande won the presidential election, defeating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, who supported the compact to increase fiscal discipline in the Eurozone. And the makeup of the next Greek government […]
Businessinsider.com: This Mother’s Day, go ahead and tell your mom how much you value her―just don’t try to back it up with numbers. New survey data shows a decline in […]
Source: Reuters By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri | Fri May 4, 2012 7:57pm EDT KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – A Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam has been awarded $5 million in punitive damages by a jury who found the telecommunications giant AT&T created a “hostile […]
(Reuters) – In the fall of 2009, the board of GMAC, one of the largest U.S. auto and home-loan companies, gathered in New York to discuss whether to put its troubled mortgage unit into bankruptcy. GMAC, now called Ally Financial, was just about to receive the last of $17 billion […]
NY Times: There are no secrets online. That emotional e-mail you sent to your ex, the illness you searched for in a fit of hypochondria, those hours spent watching kitten […]
Source: BBC Defence lawyers for five men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 attacks have challenged the fairness of the military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. The defendants, who include the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were formally charged with murder and other offences on Saturday. None of […]
Source: The New York Times Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year, and the United States fared badly in the first country-by-country global comparison of premature births, which was released Wednesday by the World Health Organization and other agencies. Although American hospitals excel at saving premature infants, the United States is similar […]
Source: Yahoo News KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse […]
Times Standard I majored in biology as an undergraduate, and have never regretted it. Life has taken me in many directions since then, but the “science of life” has stayed with me. I’ve recently read some books by Richard Dawkins, a genetic and molecular biologist, and an atheist. I recommend […]
Huff Post SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons’ growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers. The once-a-decade study […]
Russian TV: If you think residing in America is taxing, just talk to one of the many expatriates who is contributing to a shocking statistic recently discovered: across the globe, […]
According to Nick Kristof, nuns rock! I couldn’t agree with him more. When Pope Benedict XIV made his ill-advised remarks against Islam a few years ago, I received an email from my friend, Sister Rosemary, apologizing for his rude comments. In my opinion, nuns are a testament to the statement […]
Loonwatch.com: PVV leader Geert Wilders has called on Muslims throughout the world to leave Islam. He made his call in a speech in New York, to promote his English-language book Marked for Death. […]
Huff Post Sam Harris–I know you’re a busy man, but I’d like to ask you out. Will you go to mosque with me? I’m not trying to convert you to Islam. Like you, I’m not a Muslim. Like you, I don’t believe in any gods. I’m happily, openly atheist. A […]
Source: Forbes. One way or another Google has a problem. Last week, the company released a full FCC report about its surreptitious collection of data from millions of unsecured Wi-Fi connections, using software developed six years ago for Street View, a multi-purpose technology that provides a direct view of virtually […]
After serving in the Marine Corps for 12 years, I moved back home to San Antonio and eventually found a great position as a compliance coordinator for a trucking company. I worked there for about six years, but once the economy started going downhill, I was laid off. I found […]
Credit: TOI WASHINGTON: Secret diaries of an Australian woman who was one of young Barack Obama’s girlfriends, show the warmth and trust of the future president in love, but also hint at his reserve and “coolness.” Accounts of the 1980s romance between Genevieve Cook and a twenty-something Obama in New […]
Credit: Asiatimes As blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng switches from a willingness to stay in China to requesting resettlement in the United States, both countries look close to tripping up in the diplomatic dance over his daring escape from house arrest into (and out of) American protection. A muted triumph […]
Credit: The Wall Street Journal by Wasim Sroya By SADANAND DHUME Until the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the American view of radical Islam and its many discontents was shaped more by the Middle East than South Asia. The U.S. has long been at odds with the raging Ayatollah in Iran, […]
Russian TV: An unexpected rise in the numbers of Muslims and Mormons in the US has puzzled researchers. They are the two fastest-growing groups, while mainline churches lose adherents, the […]