A legal adviser to President Clinton wrote in 1994 that concluding that the situation in the central African country amounted to genocide "does not create a legal obligation ... to stop it."
Read More »Despite Va. Order, Car Services Uber, Lyft Refuse To Pull Over
The smartphone-linked services have run afoul of taxi drivers who accuse them of having lax insurance and background checks.
Read More »N. Dakota’s Gay-Marriage Law Challenged; Wisc. Ban Struck Down
N. Dakota had been the only state with an unchallenged ban. In Wisconsin, a federal judge ruled that state's ban is unconstitutional.
Read More »New Look At Apollo Rocks Finds Evidence Of Moon’s Birth
An examination of rocks collected by Apollo astronauts shows a peculiar type of oxygen indicating a massive collision between Earth and another object 4.5 billion years ago that formed the moon.
Read More »@CIA Tweets; Internet Explodes In Not-So-Covert Sarcasm
The agency has probably been on Twitter before, but its first public tweet was cloaked in tongue-in-cheek humor.
Read More »WWII Vet, AWOL From Nursing Home, Found At Normandy Ceremonies
After Bernard Jordan's nursing home in Sussex couldn't sign him up for an organized trip, the 89-year-old put on his medals and headed out on his own. The nursing home reported him missing.
Read More »Uber Car Service Company Is Now Valued At $17 Billion
Uber, the company whose app pairs drivers with passengers, hit it big in a new financing round, bringing in investments of $1.2 billion and sending its valuation skyward.
Read More »Striking Train Workers Add To Brazil’s World Cup Woes
There was chaos in Brazil on Friday as striking workers and police clashed and commuters jammed onto overcrowded buses. The list of headaches is growing ahead of next week's World Cup kickoff.
Read More »70 Years After A Crucial Invasion, World Honors D-Day
Some 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy and began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation during World War II. World leaders, including President Obama, gathered to mark the anniversary.
Read More »Sword Fights Break Out In A Clash At India’s Golden Temple
Ceremonial swords and staffs were swung in anger, resulting in injuries and panic during a commemoration of a military raid on a sacred shrine in Amritsar, India.
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