South Africa Has Replaced The Clumsy Pistorius Detective With A Legendary...
South African police named its top detective to take over the Oscar Pistorius case Thursday after it emerged the officer who had been leading the investigation faces attempted murder charges."We...
View ArticleHere's Everything You Should Consider Before Converting Your IRA To A Roth
In this edition of our Motley Fool Conversations series, Fool personal finance expert Dayana Yochim and retirement planning analyst Dan Caplinger discuss whether converting traditional IRAs and 401(k)...
View ArticleRand Paul Just Wrote A Huge Check To The US Treasury
Sen. Rand Paul cut a six-figure check to the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday in an effort to do his part to put a tiny chip in the federal debt.The Kentucky Republican returned $600,000 in funds he saved...
View ArticleHere Are Some Of The Weirdest Things Jesse Jackson Jr. Bought With Embezzled...
Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. admitted Wednesday to embezzling approximately $750,000 in campaign funds — and now faces more than two years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000, the AP...
View ArticleObama's Immigration Plan Could Amnesty 'Much More Than 11 Million' Illegals
Lost in the political fight between President Obama and Marco Rubio, is that the White House’s leaked bill is the first new proposal from anyone involved in negotiations that actually specifies its...
View ArticleThere's An Upper Limit To Collaboration
Collaboration is an important part of innovation. The days of the lone inventor are gone (if they ever really existed at all) – now, it takes a network to innovate.But how much collaboration do we...
View ArticleThere's A $250,000 Wild Card To Consider When You Plan For Retirement
Healthcare expenses are the largest financial wildcard of later-life retirement spending. We simply don't know how much we may need to spend. On average, a 65-year-old couple will face out-of-pocket...
View ArticleIt's Raining Plasma On The Sun [VIDEO]
Loops of superheated plasma far larger than Earth rain down on the solar surface in a dazzling video captured by a NASA sun-watching spacecraft.NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched as a...
View ArticleWhat Those Extra Iiiiis And Yyyyys In Your Texts Say About You
"Hiiiii," he texted. “Hiiiii,” I responded. “How are youuuuu?”Rest assured: I am an adult. I even write for a living—often about grammar, punctuation, and how we use words in these tech-enhanced...
View ArticleWhy Does Obama Want America To Be More Like Germany?
Americans have experienced a strong case of Germany Envy throughout the recession and slow recovery.In 2010, when the president pledged to double export growth in five years, policymakers looked to...
View ArticleThere's A Great Residency Loophole In Chile
Yesterday I had the opportunity to break bread with a good friend of mine who is an alumnus of the Startup Chile entrepreneurship program.This is a really unique program that the government launched in...
View ArticleHow To Get The Job Done When You Just Want To Crawl Back Into Bed
The thing about being sick is that it always feels like this is the worst it's ever been. Like it's never going to end.And nothing's worse than having to work when you feel like crap--having to think...
View ArticleChina Is About To Face Some Major Problems In The Workplace
China will become the global economic leader sometime in the next 10 to 25 years, according to many economists. This means China -- and not the United States -- will have the largest GDP in the world,...
View ArticleDid A Secret Vatican Report On Gay Sex And Blackmail Bring Down The Pope?
Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that he's resigning the papacy next week because of old age.But according to the major Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the real reason he resigned is because he did not...
View ArticleRepublicans Are Divided Over The GOP's Plan To Fix Immigration
Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions slammed a vague bargain on immigration announced on Thursday by the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, even as the Republican House majority leader, Rep. Eric Cantor,...
View ArticleThe Mother Of An Aurora Victim Is 'Appalled' By John McCain
The mother of a young man killed in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater massacre told TPM on Thursday she was appalled at the way Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) handled her question about an assault weapons ban...
View ArticleHere's Why The GOP Needs Its Own Bill Clinton
Since President Obama's re-election, the sense that the GOP is in the midst of an existential crisis has only deepened.A new poll from Bloomberg shows that Obama's favorability ratings are at a...
View ArticleThe Ground War Over Gun Control Has Officially Begun
The ground war over gun control after the Newtown, Conn. massacre has begun.Across the country, members of Congress are being hit with grassroots campaigns and ads aimed at pushing them to one side or...
View ArticleObama's Popularity With Hispanics Is Soaring After His Big Immigration Push
President Obama is riding a huge surge in popularity in public opinion surveys among Hispanics, who are overwhelmingly excited about his second-term efforts to pass immigration reform.Obama’s approval...
View ArticleRogue Hacker Groups Are Actually More Dangerous Than China
Cyber warfare has dominated the national security dialogue this week after reports that China has been systematically attacking U.S. computer networks--from the Defense Department to The New York...
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