It’s a name that might suit a rubber ducky, not an extremely expensive state-of-the-art research vessel designed to explore the coldest regions on Earth. Nonetheless the name “Boaty McBoatface” may be given to a 200 million pound ($288 million) vessel because of a public preference for that moniker. The name… Read More
Huge $14 billion hotel deal announced
Marriott won over Starwood with a sweetened bid worth more than $14.4 billion just days after a Chinese insurance company appeared to steal it away from the hotel chain with a more lucrative offer. Starwood, which owns Sheraton, Westin and St. Regis, over the weekend became the first U.S. hotel… Read More
Disgusting! Sicko tries to drown puppy at LA beach
Authorities are searching for someone who left a puppy tied to a plastic shovel to drown on a Los Angeles-area beach. The body of the brown-and-white terrier mix was found Friday by canoe paddlers at Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey. A blue-handled plastic shovel was stuck through the dog’s… Read More
Guilty! Ex-Gov’t ‘sextortion’ employee to be sentenced
Sitting at a desk in the American embassy in London, a former U.S. State Department employee used his government-issued computer to prey on vulnerable young women and manipulate them into sharing nude photos, amassing thousands of images to make himself feel powerful, prosecutors said. Michael C. Ford, 36, faces years… Read More
Spring snow threatens Northeast commute
New Englanders will face a messy commute as a spring storm kicks off the work week while others in the Northeast will have an easier time. Forecasters have predicted an accumulation of 4 to 8 inches of heavy, wet snow in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Monday. Southeastern Massachusetts could… Read More
12 points down. 44 secs left. Was this the greatest comeback of all time? (Video)
Northern Iowa appeared all but ready to book its plane tickets to California for next week’s Sweet 16. That was before Texas A&M put together the biggest last-minute comeback in NCAA Division I history. Led by Alex Caruso’s 25 points and 22 more from Danuel House in the second half… Read More
Ex-cop turns criminal, killed in toll booth stickup
A retired state trooper killed a turnpike toll collector and a security guard in a holdup attempt at a toll plaza and then was shot dead by troopers while trying to escape with the money, authorities said. Clarence Briggs, who retired four years ago, confronted two Pennsylvania Turnpike toll collectors… Read More
N. Korea ratchets up tensions with more weapons tests
North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in an apparent response to ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills it sees as a provocation. The projectiles launched from a site near the northeastern city of… Read More
An Ominous Warning From Japan — Central Bankers Are Losing Control
By Zach Scheidt, Income Editor for Agora Financial If you haven’t opened up your recent copy of the “Tokyo Times”, you probably don’t know of an unusual phenomena taking place across Japan… I am not talking about a cartoon or the latest robotic invention, but rather an economic indicator that… Read More
European police stop terror massacre
Suspected terror mastermind Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks, confessed to investigators after he was captured that they nabbed him in the nick of time. Abdeslam admitted he and the other terror suspects arrested over the weekend were planning new operations from Brussels and had access… Read More