World News
François Hollande Sworn in as President of France
PARIS — In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was inaugurated Tuesday morning as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand. Later, after naming Jean-Marc Ayrault, 62, … [Read More...]
François Hollande Sworn in as President of France
PARIS — In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was inaugurated Tuesday morning as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand. Later, after naming Jean-Marc Ayrault, 62, … [Read More...]
Newly Inaugurated Hollande Begins Partnership With Merkel
PARIS — It is a measure of the importance to France of the relationship with Germany that François Hollande, after taking office on Tuesday, will eat his first dinner as president of France in Berlin, in the company of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thomas … [Read More...]
Sport News
‘Some Things Never Cease to Amaze Me …’
Welcome to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping for all things NCAA on tournament game days. We'll have what our first guest ordered: the presidential breakfast. ——— Lots of people have a beef with John Calipari. Some don't like the Kentucky coach just because he wins too much, … [Read More...]
Ohio State Beats Syracuse 77-70 to Reach Final 4
Ohio State coach Thad Matta sized up his team in the middle of the season and had it figured for an early loss when the NCAA tournament came around. The final weekend of March Madness is next, and the Buckeyes will be there. Jared Sullinger recovered from first-half foul trouble to score 19 points … [Read More...]
Louisville in Final 4 With 72-68 Win Over Florida
Once upon a time, Billy Donovan took Rick Pitino on an improbable ride to the Final Four. Twenty-five years later, Pitino is heading back after another unbelievable run — one capped with an amazing late-game rally that left his old protege wondering what the heck happened. Freshman forward Chane … [Read More...]
Business News
The Money Issue: Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality
Ever since the financial crisis started, we’ve heard plenty from the 1 percent. We’ve heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawyers and image consultants. They typically repeat platitudes about investment, risk-taking and … [Read More...]
Op-Ed Contributor: When It Comes to Immigration, Privatization Can Kill
ON Oct. 12, 2010, Jimmy Mubenga was deported from Britain. The 46-year-old Angolan had come to the country as a refugee 16 years earlier. But after his involvement in a pub brawl and a subsequent criminal conviction, the government ordered his deportation. Three private security guards escorted him … [Read More...]
Spain’s Economy Faces Doubts on Growth
MADRID — Officials from Washington to Frankfurt have recently declared that the worst is over for the euro zone. Dominique Faget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Spaniards at the troubled bank Bankia on Thursday declared “enough of the banking abuses.” Add to … [Read More...]
Education News
Lack of Information Can Be Devastating to Student Loan Borrowers
Last week, we wrote about the proposed Know Before You Owe Act of 2012. This week, we want to emphasize its importance by sharing some real-life consequences that can result when borrowers don't have vital information before they sign on the dotted line. (We apologize for the solemnity, but … [Read More...]
4 Considerations for Spending the Summer at College
Most college-bound children and their parents prepare for the big transition: leaving for college. An adjustment that is less discussed and may be less prepared for, however, occurs when that same student decides to stay at college for the summer. Whether that happens in the first year or much … [Read More...]
10 Least Expensive Private Medical Schools
Comment Tweet Share on LinkedIn The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to … [Read More...]
Entertainment News
Reese Witherspoon’s Mom ‘Fears for Husband’s Safety’
Actress Reese Witherspoon, seen here in a photo taken Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, in Toronto, was hit by a car Wed. Sept., 7, 2011, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo) … [Read More...]
Cosby: Gun Culture Killed Trayvon
Bill Cosby hosts the Jackie Robinson Foundation Awards Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria March 5, 2012, in New York City. (Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images) Bill Cosby has weighed in on the … [Read More...]
On 70th birthday, Aretha Franklin’s gift to fans: Reuniting with Clive Davis for new album
AP Aretha Franklin NEW YORK – Aretha Franklin has a lot more than her 70th birthday to celebrate: She's reuniting with one of her musical mentors, Clive Davis, for a new album. In an interview at her swanky birthday party on Saturday, Franklin said she and Davis, … [Read More...]
Health News
Romney Medicare Plan Draws Stark Contrast With Obama’s
WASHINGTON — President Obama and Mitt Romney agree on one thing about Medicare: the differences between them are huge. Each man says his opponent’s policies would end Medicare as it now exists, undermining the rock-solid guarantee of health care for older Americans. The Election … [Read More...]
Drilling Down: For Oil Workers, Deadliest Danger Is Driving
After working 17 hours straight at a natural gas well in Ohio, Timothy Roth and three other crew members climbed into their company truck around 10 o’clock one night last July and began their four-hour drive back to their drilling service company’s shop in West Virginia. Drilling … [Read More...]
D.S.M. Revisions May Sharply Increase Addiction Diagnoses
WASHINGTON — In what could prove to be one of their most far-reaching decisions, psychiatrists and other specialists who are rewriting the manual that serves as the nation’s arbiter of mental illness have agreed to revise the definition of addiction, which could result in millions more … [Read More...]
U.S. News
Romney Blames Obama for Debt ‘Prairie Fire’ in Iowa
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, stands on a table as he talks to an overflow crowd prior to a town hall meeting during a campaign stop, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Sioux City, Iowa. Republican presidential candidates are largely shifting from … [Read More...]
NATO Summit Will Likely Produce Vague Plans on Afghanistan
Despite ample hype about the coming NATO summit in Chicago, the powwow is unlikely to produce specific policy pacts that will make clear the alliance's plans for Afghanistan and Syria. President Obama is set to welcome NATO and other world leaders to his hometown Saturday for three days of … [Read More...]
Politics News
Santorum wins La. primary
Sean Gardner / REUTERSRepublican presidential candidate and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum signs placards as he greets supporters at a Get Out The Vote rally in Mandeville, Louisiana March 21, 2012. By Michael O'Brien, msnbc.comUpdated 10:10 p.m. ET - Rick Santorum’s campaign netted a … [Read More...]
Dick Cheney recovering after heart transplant
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering Saturday following a heart transplant from an anonymous donor. NBC's Jamie Gangel reports.By NBC News, msnbc.com and news servicesUpdated at 8:23 p.m. ET: Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday at a Virginia hospital … [Read More...]
Tax breaks exceed $1 trillion, Report says
A congressional report detailing the value of major tax breaks shows they amount to more than $1 trillion a year—roughly the size of the annual federal budget deficit—and benefit wide swaths of the population. The figures could be useful to lawmakers of both parties and President Obama, … [Read More...]
Money News
Obama weighs in on JPMorgan loss
President Obama and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Barack Obama said Monday that a $2 billion trading loss suffered by JPMorgan Chase is "why Wall Street reform is so important.""We don't know all the details," Obama said, but "it's going to be … [Read More...]
Romney files for extension on his 2011 tax return
0:00 / 2:55Romney's taxes: Behind the numbersNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Like millions of other Americans, Mitt Romney isn't going to be ready to file his taxes on time this year.The former Massachusetts governor and his wife Ann filed for an extension for their 2011 taxes, according to tax forms … [Read More...]
Obama forms group to streamline natural gas policies
President Obama issued an executive order Friday, creating a group to coordinate natural gas policies among at least 13 federal agencies.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama issued an executive order Friday, establishing a meeting of the minds to work on natural gas policies for his … [Read More...]
Opinion News
Everyone out of the pool?
Every year, federal government bureaucrats work hard to come up with some 80,000 pages of new and proposed regulations. That's a lot of pages -- 23 feet high if you stack them in one pile. One rule that just went effect, which you can find by flipping to page 56,236 of the 2010 regulations, … [Read More...]
Honoring bravery and self-sacrifice on National Medal of Honor Day
AP Sept. 15: President Barack Obama applauds after awarding the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyer, 23, from Greensburg, Ky., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Meyer was in Afghanistan's Kunar province in Sept. 2009 when he repeatedly ran … [Read More...]
Why the Reason Rally is unreasonable
According to its organizers, history will be made at Saturday’s Reason Rally in Washington, when organizers will host “the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history.” Ironically that sounds a great deal like the self-important and inflated claims which come from some … [Read More...]
Science News
Hawaii’s Beaches Are in Retreat, and Way of Life May Follow
Little by little, Hawaii’s iconic beaches are disappearing. Multimedia Graphic Tracking Shoreline Change RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times » Most beaches on the state’s three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to … [Read More...]
Hawaii’s Beaches Are in Retreat, and Way of Life May Follow
Little by little, Hawaii’s iconic beaches are disappearing. Multimedia Graphic Tracking Shoreline Change RSS Feed Get Science News From The New York Times » Most beaches on the state’s three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to … [Read More...]
Testing a Drug That May Stop Alzheimer’s Before It Starts
In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer’s disease, people who are genetically guaranteed to suffer from the disease years from now — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will for the first time be given a drug intended to stop them from developing … [Read More...]
Travel News
Fees: What Airlines Don’t Want You to Know
Six things airlines don't want you to know about their fees. (Getty Images) Which airline is worst for fees? I'll get to that, but let's go right to No. 1 … [Read More...]
5 oh-so-secluded Caribbean beaches
Tiny and uninhabited, Joe Grant Cay lies amid the Turks and Caicos islands. (Photo courtesy of Amphibious Adventures)By Alexis Lipsitz, Frommers.comQuiet, secluded and often off the beaten path, these powdery treasures are for those island lovers for whom the beach is the thing. Ultra-romantic and … [Read More...]
Tingo throws hat into the hotel booking game
Courtesy TingoTingo is a new hotel booking service similar to Hotels.com and Expedia, but offers a "Money Back" feature that could save travelers some cash.By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com contributorA new service just entered the hotel booking market, and Tingo is its name-o.Tingo offers hotel … [Read More...]