Sep 09 How Kerry's Syria ultimatum may have become an inadvertent solution .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%; } While in London early Monday,… Continue reading
Sep 09 Facebook data shows who is talking about Syria NBC News and Facebook partnered to look at the demographics of the conversation about Syria. Some notes from the report concerning Facebook and Syria: Men are posting about Syria nearly twice as much as women. Washington, D.C. had… Continue reading
Sep 09 Black infants face a high risk of premature birth and complications The LA Times reports on a stark racial divide in the delivery room. Black women...are 1 1/2 times as likely as white women to give birth prematurely, and their babies are more than twice as likely to die before… Continue reading
Sep 09 Michelle Bachmann visits Cairo, criticizes Muslim Brotherhood Three U.S. lawmakers -- Michelle Bachmann, Steve King and Louie Gohmert -- released a 15-minute video while in Cairo Saturday thanking the Egyptian military for cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, which she dubbed a "great evil" and… Continue reading
Sep 09 E-Cigarette use doubles among junior and high school students Photo by Flickr user Michael Dorausch The CDC has found that the popularity of electronic cigarettes is growing among American teens: Between 2011 and 2012, the percent of junior high and high school students who… Continue reading
Sep 09 Rice: Syrian chemical weapons threaten U.S. national security National Security Advisor Susan Rice addresses the situation in Syria at the New America Foundation in Washington. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/ AFP/ Getty Images. While President Barack Obama continues his campaign for support on a military strike in… Continue reading
Sep 09 Cave so large it swallows clouds now open to tourists Photo courtesy of Oxalis Vietnam's Son Doong cave was only recently explored and now a tour operator is accepting reservations. Tours start at $3,000 per person and only 220 permits are allocated per year. But, for… Continue reading
Sep 09 #NEWSLIFE This was an @wolfblitzer idea. pic.twitter.com/u0c6OmVoWW— gwen ifill (@gwenifill) September 9, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 09 Man who posted YouTube killing confession indicted by grand jury Video still from Cordell's YouTube confession. Matthew Cordell, the man who went viral with a YouTube video confession for killing a man in a drunken driving crash, was indicted by a Franklin County, Ohio grand jury… Continue reading
Sep 09 Teachers aren't ready. Students aren't ready. By News Desk "Teachers aren't ready. Students aren't ready. And [it's] before the DOE is ready, obviously, if they don't even have tests out yet [for all classes]." -- High school teacher John Yanno for the Secondary School for Law in… Continue reading