Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Reportedly Heads To Chicago For Rehab
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford flew to Chicago on Thursday afternoon shortly after announcing he would take leave from his mayoral duties and re-election campaigning to seek help for what he described as a...
View ArticleMacklemore & Ryan Lewis Recording Sophomore Album During Second Half Of 2014
About a year-and-a-half ago, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were performing their debut album, "The Heist," for crowds of no more than 50 people. In 2014, the duo has traveled through Australia, Asia and...
View ArticleKids Absolutely Crush Salsa Routine, Make Us Realize Just How Bad We Are At...
Meet Kevin and Beverly, two New Jersey-based salsa masters who are around six or seven years old and will steal your heart in about two minutes. They recently danced their little tushes off in the...
View Article10 Outrageous Things You May Have Heard About Vaccines
There’s lots of hot air circulating about vaccines. We’re here to set the record straight, because vaccines are at the heart of our work – keeping children alive and healthy! 1. You only need to be...
View ArticleSenators Dish Out Reality Check To Obama Optimism Over Asia Trade Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators from both parties provided a reality check Thursday to the Obama administration's optimism overs its trade agenda following some progress in key negotiations with Japan. The...
View ArticleUS: South Sudan Killings Show Unbelievable Cruelty
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Stopping short of describing deadly fighting in South Sudan as genocide, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday blasted the new nation's ethnic and political...
View ArticleVatican Urges U.N. Not To Equate Sex Abuse With Torture As Hearings Get Underway
VATICAN CITY (RNS) As Vatican representatives prepare to testify before a United Nations inquiry into torture next week, a senior official warned investigators that it would be “deceptive” to link...
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Education for the Voiceless: India's Muslim Students Still Ignored and...
MUMBAI, INDIA-- The bell rings, and nearly 700 Muslim students pour from Anjuman-I-Islam school's worn, stone buildings onto a dusty quad. Their plain, blue-and-white, government-sponsored uniforms...
View ArticleMayor Rob Ford and the Broken Levee
Though Led Zeppelin probably wasn't singing about the disease of addiction in their 1971 classic When the Levee Breaks, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford could now tell you that, for all intents and purposes,...
View ArticleThis Is What It's Like To Be A Reporter Working In Syria
Syrian journalist Obadah al-Kaddri gave a first-hand account on Friday of what it's like to work in one of the most dangerous places for reporters in the world. Al-Kaddri was recently named one of Time...
View ArticleCalestous Juma on Being Pro-Africa, Why Africa Needs GM Crops, and How He...
Calestous Juma is currently a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he also directs the Science, Technology, and Globalization Program and the Gates Foundation's Agricultural Innovation in...
View Article"A Letter From the Kampung"
WASHINGTON, DC- Indonesia has been wracked by a string of seismic and volcanic activity of late --including a 6.0 magnitude quake today in the eastern part of the archipelago nation of 250 million. But...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra On How To Modify Your Own Genes
Physician and best-selling author Deepak Chopra has an empowering message: You can actually modify your own genes through your actions and behaviors. “We are literally metabolizing something as...
View ArticleA Visit With Aung San Suu Kyi
The Aspen Institute, through its Global Alliance Program under Mickey Bergman, is co-sponsoring a delegation to Myanmar over nine days in late April and early May. The purpose of the trip is to foster...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
This week, turmoil and uncertainty continued to grip the globe. As pro-Russian separatists seized town halls in eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama completed his "pivot" tour of East Asia...
View ArticleUruguay's President Says Legal Marijuana Market Will Be Better Than Colorado's
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — President Jose Mujica said Friday that his country's legal marijuana market will be much better than Colorado's, where he says the rules are based on "fiction" and...
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The Global Attack on Schools... and How We Fight Back
Children assemble in the school yard at Kuje Primary School in Abuja, Nigeria. Credit: A World At School/Nick Cavanagh The world is transfixed by the kidnapping of more than 230 girls from a school in...
View ArticleCongressman Takes On The Alarming Suicide Statistic That's Plaguing Our Veterans
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) addressed the alarming suicide rate of veterans in an interview on HuffPost Live Friday. Ryan explained that an average of 22 veterans commit suicide a day, which is "almost one...
View ArticleRecently Arrived Chikungunya Virus Gains Foothold In Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A recently arrived mosquito-borne virus that causes an abrupt onset of high fever and intense joint pain is rapidly gaining a foothold in many spots of the Caribbean, health...
View ArticleBringing Slavery Into the Heart of Jane Austen
Getting a screenplay from page to screen can be a long process, and this is doubly so when the subject is so different. In 2004 I conceived a Jane Austenesque, costume-drama feature film with a black...
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