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NY Man Recruited for ISIS: Federal Indictment
(Newser) - A man from Rochester, NY, was indicted yesterday on charges of attempting to help three people (two of them FBI informants) travel to Syria to take up arms with ISIS, including sending $600 cash to a potential recruit in Yemen, according to a Justice Department statement picked up by the... More » |
Bones Reveal Brutal Truth of Richard III's Death
(Newser) - He wasn't a hunchback , he had a bad case of roundworms , and his final moments were brutal ones: The life and, more specifically, death of England's King Richard III has come into sharper focus following the most recent research on his skeletal remains. A forensic imaging team used... More » |
Aurora Victim's Parents Go After Ammo Suppliers
(Newser) - James Holmes is a "patently dangerous homicidal man" who should never have been able to buy thousands of rounds of ammunition, tear gas, and body armor, argues a suit filed yesterday against four companies who supplied the accused Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooter with those items. The suit was... More » |
Meet This Year's 21 MacArthur 'Geniuses'
(Newser) - A 71-year-old historian, a 32-year-old physicist, poets, musicians, lawyers: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has selected this year's crop of "geniuses"—recipients of a coveted fellowship that includes a $625,000 stipend over five years. Among the winners: Physicist Danielle Bassett, the youngest recipient... More » |
Source: Joan Rivers' Doc Took Selfie During Surgery
(Newser) - Joan Rivers' personal doctor not only performed an unplanned biopsy during a routine procedure—the ear, nose, and throat specialist snapped a "selfie" with the star while she was unconscious, a source close to the investigation tells CNN . The cardiac arrest that led to her death happened during the... More » |
Divers Find Ghost Ships Near San Francisco
(Newser) - Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just spent five days uncovering three historic shipwrecks dating back to the decades following the Gold Rush. More than 300 ships are thought to have wrecked in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, which spans 1,300 square miles off... More » |
American Busted Trying to Swim to North Korea
(Newser) - The number of Americans in North Korean custody still stands at three after what appears to have been a failed—and incredibly dangerous—attempt by a US citizen to swim across a river border between North and South Korea. Officials in the South say the man was taken into their... More » |
Scientists Defrost, Dissect Rare Colossal Squid
(Newser) - After thawing an animal that had been frozen for 8 months and some careful maneuvering with a forklift to get it into a tank, scientists were able to take a good look at the best-preserved specimen of the elusive colossal squid ever discovered. The 770-pound creature hauled up by a... More » |
After 'Additional Thought,' Vikings Again Bench Peterson
(Newser) - The Minnesota Vikings have decided to ban star running back Adrian Peterson until the legal issues over him hitting his 4-year-old son with a stick have been resolved. The team—which decided to reinstate him on Monday —has now reversed course and placed him on the exempt-commissioner's permission... More »
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