Photo c/o Biography.com Shirley Temple Black, one of the most well known child stars in Hollywood, died at 85 on Monday night in her Woodside, California home. Her publicist, Cheryl Kagan, said that Temple Black died of natural causes and […]
Photo c/o aljazeera.com Thousands of families in an overwhelmingly Christian region of Manipur, India have converted to a version of Orthodox Judaism over the past thirty years. But for the Bnei Menashe , the pressures of living in a state ravaged […]
Concerned about carriage horses in the city? Or the state sponsored killing of mute swans reported last week? Well if you thought that was rotten, get a load of what’s going down in the state of Denmark.. Marius, a healthy […]
A UN convoy came under attack from mortar shells and gunfire on the second day of the humanitarian ceasefire. while leaving Homs, Syria, on Saturday. Authorities have blamed the attack on rebel forces, who blame President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for the […]
The Iranian navy plans to send warships out into international waters near the border of the United States. According to BBCNews, Iranian media quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad as saying the deployment was a response to US vessels in the […]
When the Hrushevskoho Street riots began in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 19, the world has watch a complicated political struggle that has seen protesters, military and clergy in standoffs in the streets. The Newshour’s Margaret Warner attempts to give a primer […]
Sage Kotensburg, of Park City, Utah, brought in the first goal for Team USA, winning the Slopestyle Snowboarding event yesterday in Sochi, Russia. Kotensburg’s achievements prior to the Gold were winning the Mammoth Mountain U.S. Grand Prix (2013-14), 20th […]
The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will kick off for New York viewers tonight at 7:30 p.m on NBC 4, with a replay at 1 a.m. For those willing to stay up very late, USA vs. Finland will begin at […]
Photo c/o state.gov. Written by Adam Bermudez The Associated Press is reporting that a rights group has prompted the International Criminal Court to consider investigating human rights abuses arising in Bangladesh, in the wake of recent elections that saw violence […]
A fire began on Tuesday evening at 5,600ft below ground at a South African mine, leading to seventeen miners trapped underground. Eight have since been recovered. “Efforts continue to establish the whereabouts of a […]
This Newshour segment on Tuesday features a discussion on Turkey, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia, the so called “Fragile 5”, markets that have been growing but whose current state is rocky as a result of US federal monetary policy.
Japan may undergo a drastic shift in foreign policy, bucking the policy of military pacifism that has been in place since World War II. As Al Jazeera reports, “A government panel will urge Japan to allow its military to help […]
Photo c/o Zuma Press Video c/o youtube.com (The Associated Press) 15-year-old Sergei Gordeyev killed his geography teacher and wounded a police officer Monday. He was taken into custody after negotiations with police and his father.
Written by Adam Bermudez Photo c/o seiu.org. Eliseo Vasquez Medina, the secretary-treasurer and former executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who recently went on a publicized hunger strike, has been a very visible face of the […]
Written by Adam Bermudez Photo c/o wikipedia.org Born in 1967, Hoffman was best known for his Academy Award winning performance as Best Actor in the 2005 biographical film Capote, and received three Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actor. Hoffman’s […]
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