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Zealot at South Coast Repertory
Photo by Deborah Robinson/SCR Theresa Rebeck's dramatic essay on the many layers of conflict in the Middle East - political, religious, cultural and diplomatic - is a deftly drawn piece of Shavian...
View ArticleState Dept Computers Hacked, Email Shut Down
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A...
View ArticleDutch Authorities Identify Highly Contagious Bird Flu Strain
By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Dutch authorities said on Sunday they had found a highly contagious strain of bird flu at a poultry farm in the central Netherlands and set about...
View ArticleObama Calls Kassig Murder 'Pure Evil'
President Barack Obama called the Islamic State's execution of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, an American hostage also known as Peter, "pure evil" on Sunday. Obama released the statement after the White House...
View ArticleIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Iran Is Your Enemy'
WASHINGTON -- Less than 48 hours before the start of final talks on Iran’s nuclear program, set to begin Tuesday in Vienna, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on American television to...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Says U.S. Speeding Up Training For Iraqi Forces Fighting ISIS
FORT IRWIN, Calif. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the U.S. military is accelerating its efforts to train and advise Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants. Hagel said U.S. special...
View ArticleReporters Without Borders Demands Justice For Beaten Colombian Journalist
Oscar Castaño Valencia, a Colombian journalist, was beaten and threatened last week for investigating gang involvement in child prostitution, Reporters Without Borders reported on Friday. Castaño, who...
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Scientists Say They've Figured Out Why Starfish Are Melting
From Mexico to Alaska, starfish have been mysteriously melting for more than a year. When a starfish first gets sick, its arms pretzel up and white lesions form on its skin. Next, the starfish,...
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This Is What It's Like To Be Directed By Jon Stewart
"Rosewater," the feature film directorial debut by Jon Stewart, was released in theaters Friday. It depicts the experiences of Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who was arrested in Tehran...
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Man Dressed As Santa Claus Robs Melbourne Post Office
While Santa Claus is busy making toys for his annual Christmas run, a man in Melbourne, Australia, has robbed a post office dressed as jolly old St. Nick. At first ,when the Kris Kringle-clad thief...
View ArticleDo Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?
U.S. politicians and pundits are fond of saying that America's wars have defended America's freedom. But the historical record doesn't bear out this contention. In fact, over the past century, U.S....
View Article"I Shed Tears": Turkey-Syria Border, Part 1 of 6
A clean-cut young boy, no more than seventeen years, with eyes full of nerves and excitement, took the microphone. "I shed tears over my beloved Damascus, with the eyes of a wronged revolutionist," he...
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Viral Video on Man on His Knees Reflects Modern Life in Asia
The video is unsettling: A Vietnamese tourist on his knees begging a Chinese storeowner in Singapore for his money back after trying to purchase an iPhone 6. Within minutes the video goes viral,...
View ArticleRep. Peter Welch Warns Against Accidental War In Iraq And Syria
WASHINGTON -- Most lawmakers appear content to let President Barack Obama set his own course battling the Islamic State, but a growing number are warning America could slip into a major new war by...
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Activists Slam Filmmakers For Staging Viral Video Of Syrian Boy Saving Girl
A Norwegian filmmaker is under fire after admitting to staging a viral video of Syrian kids under fire in order to stir "debate" about war’s effect on children. Director Lars Klevberg, 34, posted the...
View ArticleNo, Erdogan, Muslims Didn't Discover America Either
Tayyip Erdogan, a Turkish politician, recently claimed that Muslims discovered America before Columbus. It's a pretty stupid statement - "we discovered America" - and one that people and groups...
View ArticleThe Church Of England Officially Accepts Women As Bishops
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Twenty years after women were ordained as priests, the Church of England is set to appoint its first woman bishop by year’s end or at the start of 2015. On Monday (Nov. 17),...
View ArticleWhy Peter Kassig Was The Islamic State's Greatest Threat
(RNS) With each bloody act, Islamic State militants demonstrate their need for self-importance overrides any moral, ethical, or religious boundary. Peter Kassig's beheading is a microcosm of all the...
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Don't Mention the Climate!
Don't Mention The Climate The efforts of the Australian Prime Minister to keep climate change strictly off the G20 agenda is proving farcical. World leaders including Barack Obama, Ban Ki Moon and...
View ArticleTurkey Ambivalent on LGBTQI Population
Turkey is a country conflicted when it comes to its LGBTQI population. On the one hand, same-sex sexual relations between consenting adults in private have been legal in Turkey since 1858, and Turkey...
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