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Nightfall is descending on the 620 million Indians without government-supplied electricity in the biggest blackout in history.
Bad news for reformists in wake of the killings in Aurora, Colorado: Most Americans see the massacre as an isolated incident, not emblematic of larger societal problems.
Master plagiarist Jayson Blair has something to say about self-plagiarist and quote fabricator Jonah Lehrer: He probably wouldn't be in this mess if it wasn't for the Internet.
If toothless federal regulations is your pet cause, look to Iran for inspiration: It just sentenced four bankers involved in a billion-dollar financial scandal to death.
The National Security Agency is desperate to hire new hacking talent to protect the nation's critical infrastructure, but its reputation for spying on Americans has damaged its reputation among cyber sleuths.
Right-leaning politics site The Daily Caller rarely shies away from publishing risqué photographs (see: "Obama's hottest celebrity donors"), but this morning the site's homepage ventured into new territory: Hardcore porn.
Mitt Romney's trip to Israel yielded $1 million in campaign contributions, but it came at a cost of sounding uninformed about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It's no secret that Rep. Paul Ryan is the intellectual leader of the GOP's fiscal resurgence (though "intellectual" isn't the word Paul Krugman would use), but what's less known is the biographical impetus behind his youthful crusade: His family's health history.
You wouldn't think of suburban New York as a battlefront for the war in Afghanistan, but for the growing number of U.S. drone operators at the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, that's exactly what it is.
Syria's admission Monday that it has chemical weapons has revived a counter-theory to one of the biggest intelligence failures in American history: The non-existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Chick-fil-A's consumer reputation is taking a dive across the country, according to a new poll of fast food eaters, but it remains as popular as ever in the Midwest.
Turkey is employing a range of covert tactics to provide military assistance to Syrian rebels, but there's one thing it would really like at its disposal: American drones.
As if every inch of the London Olympics weren't already awash in corporate advertising, a British chain of opticians has found a new marketing opportunity: London Olympics gaffes.
The sacred bond of friendship is no match for a congressional primary, it seems. This week, while the country mourns the breakup of Kristen and Robert, Washington has its mind on a different estranged couple: Marcy and Dennis.
Is WikiLeaks a secret-spilling organization or a legal outfit devoted to extradition disputes? The group that once made headlines for exposing government secrets, which it hasn't done since February's Stratfor leaks, seems dedicated now to prevent governments from sending controversial figures — first and foremost, founder Julian Assange — across internatonal borders.
If the Senate Intelligence Committee has its way, cable news industry is headed for a big shakeup: The end of the ex-Pentagon talking head.
It's been a tough week of typographical errors for House Republicans. Yesterday, the House nearly approved a bill that would've put a freeze on major federal regulations forever because of a typo. Today, in trying to fix the error, made another clerical snafu.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces have withdrawn from towns and cities across the country to crush the Syrian opposition in Aleppo in a battle military analysts say could be a focal point in the 16-month conflict.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran spots a spooky trend in America, China cleans up its flood coverage and a propaganda legend dies.
On the campaign trail, Republicans are using national security leaks to attack President Obama. But reporters may be the ones who ultimately suffer from this summer's leak hysteria.
We learned today that the Aurora mass shooting is as big a story around the world as it is in the U.S., but the reaction is not. A headline in Norway's largest newspaper captured the disbelief in other industrialized countries in the wake of the tragedy: "Stricter Firearms Is a Non-Issue Even After Massacre."
By now, you can set your watch to a phenomenon that follows nearly every mass shooting in America: A sharp uptick in gun sales.
Mitt Romney says President Obama has done nothing on foreign policy, but at the same time, he attacks the administration for leaking its foreign policy achievements. Wait, achievements? What achievements?
Mitt Romney inadvertently blurted out an Obama campaign talking point last night while discussing the impending "fiscal cliff" facing Congress.
This week is Washington's "make-or-break" moment to pass a new cybersecurity bill ahead of the August recess. As a result, there's never been a better time to stoke fears of a crippling cyber attacks regardless of their actual likelihood.
It appears Kim Jong-un's consolidation of power this week was far more turbulent than outsiders were led to believe. How much more turbulent remains subject to dispute.
As more details surface about the suicide bomber who killed six people in an attack on Israeli tourists Wednesday, the Obama administration's refusal to blame Iran remains a mystery.
Hours after the tragic shooting deaths in Aurora, Colorado advocates on both sides of the gun control debate began reciting the same talking points they've reiterated for years.
As President Bashar al-Assad's regime teeters on the brink of collapse, military planners in the Middle East and the United States are projecting worrying scenarios of the regime's disintegration.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: North Koreans dance for their Supreme Commander, the war on women comes to Zimbabwe and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues his vaguest threat yet. We begin in Pyongyang.
Earlier today, the Pentagon released a declassified document from September 2002 justifying the Iraq War, and boy is it a doozy.
Did you know the Pentagon spends $80 million a year on NASCAR sponsorships, ultimate cage fighting, bass fishing tournaments and other sports?
All it took was a 70-word blog post and now Paul Krugman is a symbol of Western condescension toward the people of Estonia.
After this week's revelation that Canadian households are richer than U.S. ones, Americans are in for the ultimate humiliation: Canadians are actually pitying us.
The shadow war between Iran and Israel may have reached a tipping point Wednesday following the bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian vacation city of Bourgas.
This morning, Foreign Policy published new results from a poll asking Americans what the president should do about the bloodshed in Syria, which primarily builds the case for why foreign policy shouldn't be conducted by opinion poll.
Is the ouster of North Korea's military leader a sign of more purges to come?
Business Insider is the Internet's undisputed king of breathless stock market analysis. But sometimes it's difficult to differentiate bad news from really bad news or good news from the great. We're here to help.
Sen. John McCain stroked the fantasies of campaign finance reformers with the impression that he would cross the aisle and vote with Democrats to help pass the DISCLOSE Act legislation, but yesterday the bill failed after a 51-44 party-line vote in favor. Behold the star-crossed romance...
The efforts of far-right loons to convince people that President Obama is a Muslim operative is finally working. But who would have guessed that secular Egyptians, scared of actual Muslim operatives, would be the easiest to convince?
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: A Chinese propagandist hits the mark, North Korea misidentifies its own foreign minister and press freedoms dwindle in Egypt.
A spirited debate is spilling out onto U.S. military websites and forums following the Navy's decision to scrap urinals on aircraft carriers so as to accommodate female sailors.
It was the Democratic talking point throughout last year's debt ceiling debate, "The Tea Party is taking the economy hostage," but now in a role reversal from last year, Democrats are the ones threatening economic ruin in an effort to wring concessions from Republicans.
We won't call it cosmic justice but it does make you wonder: On Wednesday, an Egyptian journalist died on live TV while defending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
It's the hottest trend sweeping the nation: Refusing free money from the federal government to insure millions of poor people by expanding Medicaid.
By now, Karl Rove's juggernaut fundraising vehicle Crossroads GPS is famous for its influence and wealth. What's less visible is one of its principal financiers: casino mogul Steve Wynn, a billionaire ex-Democrat who voted for President Obama in 2008.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: Iran gets whimsical about its navy, China disses Hillary, and Russia slashes its propaganda outlets.
Rep. Trey Gowdy thinks it's a good idea to send reporters to jail if they don't divulge their sources because, hey, journalists don't really mind a little jail time every once and awhile.
Much remains unknown about the mystery illness forcing Jesse Jackson Jr. into hiding, but last night's disclosure that the congressman is being treated for "mood disorder" at an inpatient care center gives mental health experts a better sense of what he's dealing with.
Nawaf Fares, Syria's ambassador to Iraq, has defected to the opposition and is now urging the army to turn its guns on President Basahr al-Assad's regime.
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