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Columbus Day is one of the most misunderstood holidays in America. Sure, many people get a day off from school or work, but why? It has been a U.S. federal holiday since 1937 marking Christopher […]

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” the childhood rhyme goes. Although Italian mariner Christopher Columbus claimed he discovered America in the 15th century, plenty of other explorers already had touched down on the continents […]

There are two obvious weaknesses with the Obama administration’s plan to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL) in Iraq and Syria: Weak partners on the ground, especially in Syria, and the […]

As news broke early Sunday morning that a second person in Dallas had contracted Ebola, a healthcare worker who had contact with the first patient, people immediately wondered: How? We don’t yet know exactly. The […]

As far as intelligence agencies go, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has remained relatively low profile—attracting neither the intrigue of, say, the CIA nor the umbrage directed toward the National Security Agency. But even as other […]

Sears is in trouble. The retailer has been bleeding cash and closing hundreds of stores for years. Now the stock is taking a beating following a Bloomberg report that a vendor had halted shipments to […]

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveiled the “D” on Thursday night, which stands for the ultra-powerful “dual-motor” in the new and improved Model S sedan. The car looks the same from the outside, but it […]

Early Friday morning, a mysterious statue of Edward Snowden appeared in Union Square Park in New York City, opposite the Abraham Lincoln statue. Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill were on hand when the statue was […]

Federal prosecutors have identified a witness prepared to testify that Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev knew his older brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, participated in 2011 triple murder outside Boston. The disclosure was […]

CDC could quarantine U.S. citizens for weeks if they refuse Ebola screenings –Non-citizens could be turned back 10 Oct 2014 U.S. citizens who refuse to undergo the new screenings for Ebola at five major American […]