At least twelve people at the foot of Mount Everest were killed early this morning by an avalanche sweeping down the world’s tallest peak. The incident is the deadliest in known history, even as search crews seek to find four
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may have a staffing problem on his hands. Despite his four months in office, he has yet to hire a communications director. The New York Post reports Thursday that a source says a number
The Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, the nation’s largest academic institution, is in shambles. In a heartfelt report in Harper’s Magazine, Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez recalls the greatness of his alma mater and how the socialist Maduro government has created a
The good news from Nigeria that more than one hundred schoolgirls abducted by radical Islamist group Boko Haram did not last, as state authorities in the northeast of the country confirmed to Reuters that only fourteen of the girls had
A video showing al-Qaeda’s second-in-command addressing a crowd of more than one hundred Islamist militants in Yemen has United States officials worried that the group is gaining strength, potentially organizing to plot a new attack on the West. In a
Less than a week after credit rating company Standard & Poor’s lowered New Jersey’s credit rating to A+, the third lowest in the nation, New Jersey failed to deliver the revenue needed to keep the budget afloat in March, falling seven
In the scramble to find missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Chinese government’s insistence on being the first to find evidence has led the international search effort to chase after unrelated debris, false positive radio signals, and other signs that
The purge within the Venezuelan government and military continues. President Nicolás Maduro, fresh off announcing a new international propaganda offensive, ordered the arrest of 30 soldiers of varying ranks for allegedly conspiring to stage a coup against the socialist government.
***WARNING*** GRAPHIC PHOTO A young woman criticizing US Airways on Twitter today got more than she bargained for when the airline’s official Twitter account replied with a pornographic image of a model airplane ensconced in a naked woman’s genitalia. Twitter
One year ago today, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro defeated Henrique Capriles Radonski in an election widely considered fraudulent by the international observers present. Today, Maduro celebrates his victory after announcing a new Ministry of International Communication to improve his government’s
A deadly gas not on the list of chemical weapons Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was made to relinquish to the international community last year was used twice in a northern Syrian village this weekend, prompting accusations that both the government
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — Three former New Jersey State Ethics Commission members are claiming that Governor Chris Christie requested the removal of the agency’s executive director and replaced her with an in-house lawyer while the commission was investigating an
The U.S. Navy is deploying an underwater drone in the Indian Ocean as the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 heads into the deep. With investigators believing the black box emitting radio “pings” all week has died, new evidence
Rev. Al Sharpton reportedly enjoys an “open line” to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, which raises ethics concerns regarding the relationship between journalists and politicians. “There hasn’t been a thing that we have asked Mayor de Blasio to do
A decade and a half of socialist repression and months of protests with seemingly no end have catapulted Venezuela to the top of the list of the world’s most dangerous nations. According to a study by the U.N. Office on Drugs
Abu Azmi, the leader of India’s Samajwadi (Socialist) party in the Midwestern state of Maharashtra, argued India’s laws against rape were insufficient because “nothing happens to women, only to men,” and that anyone engaging in sexual activity outside of marriage, “with
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been making much ado about his “human rights council,” a group which initiated a meeting between Maduro and former opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski this week. But the talks yielded no progress, and the
During a diplomatic visit in which China boasted of both its military prowess and its apparent lack thereof, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has become the first American official to receive a tour of a Chinese aircraft carrier. Hagel received more access
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio used the word “progressive” more than twenty times Thursday in a speech marking his one-hundredth day in office. His speech boasted that the “grassroots” were bolstering the successes of his administration, despite low
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has officially denied a report from CNN alleging that Malaysian fighter aircraft were scrambled to find missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 the morning after the plane was reported to have disappeared. According to CNN, a
The announcement that Kathleen Sebelius would be stepping down as Health and Human Services Secretary spread far and wide before the White House acknowledged it. Instead of announcing it themselves, the White House Twitter account retweeted a Vox post by
It was the kind of story that decides elections: a Senate candidate caught asking a friend to write an official-looking military memo praising him, after the Pentagon could not confirm its veracity. But Shane Osborn’s fraudulent Navy memo has been
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is no stranger to scandal, and certainly no stranger to being convicted of tax fraud. His latest conviction may have the 77-year-old working with the elderly at a nursing home to complete his one-year sentence, announced
The Australian agency coordinating the international effort to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has narrowed the search area to the smallest it has ever been–an area of 22,364 square miles northwest of Perth, Australia–as investigators have continued to find pinging
Vice President Jorge Arreaza announced yesterday that the communist Cuban government was “here to stay” in Venezuela: “to raise a flag against the Cuban Revolution… is an insult to the wellbeing of the Venezuelan people,” Arreaza claimed, as opposition leaders
