World News
Afghanistan Is Pledged $16 Billion for Civilian Needs
TOKYO — An international donor’s conference on Sunday pledged $16 billion for the economic development of Afghanistan in the next four years, but for the first time made it a condition that the Afghan government reduce corruption before receiving all of the money. Called … [Read More...]
The Drone Zone
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers of those who trained there. In 1954, Col. John Paul Stapp rode a rocket-propelled sled across the desert, reaching 632 miles per … [Read More...]
The Drone Zone
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers of those who trained there. In 1954, Col. John Paul Stapp rode a rocket-propelled sled across the desert, reaching 632 miles per … [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
Economic Scene: Big Banks Don’t Need to Be So Big
What can we afford to do about the financial industry? Add to Portfolio JPMorgan Chase & Company Go to your Portfolio » Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase would have us believe that regulators’ attempts to clip the wings of financial companies are about as … [Read More...]
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...]
Education News
As Student Loan Default Rates Rise, Is the Law School Bubble Bursting?
Here at the Student Loan Ranger, we recently read about Educational Credit Management, a Minnesota nonprofit that is earning commissions of up to 31 percent for collecting on defaulted student loans. Seven of their employees earned more than $400,000 in 2010, according to the San Francisco … [Read More...]
Plan College Visits This Summer
During the school year, adding the college search process onto other schoolwork and activities can be overwhelming. It's easily pushed to the bottom of the to-do list in order to accommodate anything from a big test to a big game. Once summer vacation rolls around, however, most students find … [Read More...]
10 Medical Schools That Lead to the Most Debt
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 grow … [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
CDC Urges Baby Boomers to Get tested for Hepatitis C
Nurse taking blood draw in hospital. By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying … [Read More...]
CDC Urges Baby Boomers to Get tested for Hepatitis C
Nurse taking blood draw in hospital. By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying … [Read More...]
CDC Urges Baby Boomers to Get tested for Hepatitis C
Nurse taking blood draw in hospital. By MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time blood test to see if they have the liver-destroying … [Read More...]
U.S. News
Best Buy to Cut 2,400 Jobs in Turnaround Effort
Customers walk in and out of Best Buy in Danvers, Mass. Best Buy's interim CEO says the electronics seller is operating below its full potential but is committed to changing in fundamental ways. NEW YORK (AP) — Electronics retailer Best Buy Co. is laying off 600 staffers in its Geek Squad … [Read More...]
George Zimmerman Leaves Jail on $1M Bond
By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman was released from jail Friday for a second time while he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman left the Seminole County Jail a day after Circuit … [Read More...]
Survey: Singles Hunger for Dates With Foodies [CHART]
If you're single, it may be time to flip the channel from ESPN or E! to the Food Network: Your newfound food knowledge may keep you from ever again having to eat alone. A new survey of singles, conducted by Match.com and TODAY.com, found that 70 percent of people appreciate dates who know their way … [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
Digg sold to Betaworks for pocket change
Digg co-founder Kevin Rose (right) during happier times in 2009, with podcast host Alex Albrecht.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Social news aggregator Digg was one of the hottest Internet brands a few short years ago. Now, post-decline, it's been sold to Betaworks for a reportedly paltry sum.Both Digg and … [Read More...]
Stocks: Investors cheer EU deal
Click on chart for more premarket data.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks were set to rally at the open Friday, after European leaders reached a deal on struggling eurozone banks.Optimism was further fueled by the latest reading on personal income in the United States, which increased in May by 0.2% … [Read More...]
How Congress is hurting jobs
Lawmakers are expected to take their time deciding how to replace the sequester of automatic cuts scheduled for next year. Experts say prolonging the uncertainty will hurt hiring this fall.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Everyone in Congress says they want to help create jobs and economic growth.But federal … [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
Aquarium Cares for Abandoned Beluga Calf
By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — Marine mammal specialists from across the country are at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward to help care for a baby beluga whale that became separated from its mother shortly after its birth. The male calf is under 24-hour care, being … [Read More...]
Saturn Moon May Harbor Ocean Below Surface
This undated true color image by the Cassini spacecraft released by NASA shows Saturn's largest moon, Titan, passing in front of the planet and its rings. A new study released Thursday, June 28, 2012 suggests there may be an ocean below Titan's frigid surface. By ALICIA CHANG, Associated Press LOS … [Read More...]
Navy Interceptor Missile Test Off Hawaii Successful
This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a Standard Missile-3 being launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie during a test in the Pacific Ocean, Thursday, April 26, 2007. KEKAHA, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. military has successfully conducted a test flight of the Navy's newest interceptor … [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...]