Sep 25 FBI releases photos and video of Navy Yard gunman .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The FBI released photos… Continue reading
Sep 25 UPDATE: FBI says Navy Yard shooter acted alone By News Desk .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The FBI released new information… Continue reading
Sep 25 Thanks for the memories, Ted Cruz's non-filibuster filibuster After 21 hours, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz ended his non-filibuster filibuster on the Senate floor. Contrary to some people's belief, Ted Cruz was not filibustering, but merely taking a symbolic stand against Obamacare. Meaning? His actions will have… Continue reading
Sep 25 Global HIV rates in decline Stella Manyando is a 55-year-old widow who looks after four of her grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is living with HIV, and she lost her daughter to AIDS. Photo by Annie Mpalume. The UNAIDS reports that HIV infections… Continue reading
Sep 25 How seasonal swings in jobs lead to some unsexy figures Photo courtesy of Reuters/Mike Blake It's a good thing The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien stuck around for the last presentation at the Brookings Institution's Panel on Economic Activity. The topic was, as Brookings warned reporters, the soporific seasonal adjustments to the… Continue reading
Sep 25 MacArthur 'genius grant' winners include American author and audio preservationist Recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship grants. Photo courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation A medieval historian, a dancer-choreographer and an atomic physicist are among the recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship… Continue reading
Sep 25 #USPS BREAKING: U.S. Postal Service proposes 3-cent increase in first-class stamp, cites precarious financial woes.— The Associated Press (@AP) September 25, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 25 UPDATE: Child labor in decline, but will not meet 2016 goal A child works in a gold mine in Burkina Faso. Crackdowns by corporations and activists against child labor have reduced the number of working children by 78 million since 2000, according to an International Labour Organization report Monday. ILO… Continue reading
Sep 25 #GOVTSHUTDOWN Jack Lew: Debt limit no later than Oct. 17 http://t.co/KIqQMn7cup— POLITICO (@politico) September 25, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 25 FROM THE WIRE: Pakistan earthquake death toll spikes overnight Wednesday morning, the AP is reporting a death toll of at least 271 in Pakistan in the wake of Tuesday's deadly earthquake. The powerful 7.7 magnitude quake struck the country's remote Baluchistan province and has left thousands injured… Continue reading