The Obama administration will ask Congress for an additional $60 million in aid to help the Syrian opposition council provide basic goods and services in areas under rebel control, Secretary of State John Kerry announced Thursday in Rome.
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Donations Pour In For Homeless Man Who Returned Ring He Got By Mistake
Nearly $152,000 has been donated online to help Billy Ray Harris, a homeless man in Kansas City who returned an engagement ring to the woman who accidentally left it in a cup he uses to collect change.
In Discussion About Internet Privacy, It Comes Down To Expectation Versus Reality
Do you expect that your email communications are private? That police, for example, need the OK from a judge before they dig through your email or the GPS data transmitted by your phone?
Storm Buries Kansas, Missouri As It Heads East
The biggest winter storm this season is causing delays and cancellations, and has brought traffic to a near-standstill in the Plains and Midwest, but it’s providing much-needed relief for drought-stricken farmers.
TV Ratings Agency Nielsen Will Begin Measuring Online Streaming
Nielsen, the company that provides television ratings, is catching up with the times: It said that in the fall, it would begin including online streaming in its ratings.
Which Is The Most Miserable U.S. City? Detroit.
Forbes magazine is out with its latest ranking of “Most Miserable Cities” in the U.S. and of 20 metropolitan areas listed, Detroit is on top.
‘It Felt Like An Earthquake’: One Still Missing After Kansas City Explosion
“It sounded like thunder, but it felt like an earthquake,” Tracey Truitt, a lawyer who was working in a nearby building, tells the Kansas City Star about an explosion Tuesday evening that leveled a restaurant in the city’s Country Club Plaza.
Clues Connect Global Hacking To Chinese Government, Security Firm Says
“Hundreds of investigations convince us” that the Chinese government is at least aware of, and likely sponsoring, cyber thieves who have stolen massive amounts of information from companies around the world, including American defense contractors, a U.S. security firm reported Tuesday.
Caught Their Attention: House Committee Will Hold Hearing On Asteroids
The two hulking rocks hurtling toward Earth today seem to have caught Congress’ attention: Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas, is calling for a Congressional hearing on what we can do to protect our planet from asteroids.
Watch: Sen. Elizabeth Warren Grills Regulators On Taking Banks To Trial
In her debut appearance today at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts made federal regulators uncomfortable when she asked a simple question: When was the last time you took a big Wall Street bank all the way to trial?