Gun control opponents ‘will pay a price’
Gun control opponents ‘will pay a price’ Vice President Joe Biden (Fernando Vergara/AP) Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, seeking to revive efforts to pass gun-reform legislation in Congress, warned lawmakers opposed to reform that Americans aren’t on their side. “The country has changed” since the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, [...]
June 18, 2013
BlackBerry Q10 coming to AT&T on June 21st for $199.99
BlackBerry Q10 coming to AT&T on June 21st for $199.99 Rick Perry, the Texas governor and 2012 “oops” presidential candidate, is spending the beginning of this week in Connecticut. Perry, as the governor of Texas, has little on-its-face reason to be in Connecticut. Except, of course, for one: Texas’s unemployment rate, which at 6.4 percent [...]
June 18, 2013
Gun control opponents ‘will pay a price’
Gun control opponents ‘will pay a price’ Vice President Joe Biden (Fernando Vergara/AP) Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, seeking to revive efforts to pass gun-reform legislation in Congress, warned lawmakers opposed to reform that Americans aren’t on their side. “The country has changed” since the deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, [...]
June 18, 2013
BlackBerry Q10 coming to AT&T on June 21st for $199.99
BlackBerry Q10 coming to AT&T on June 21st for $199.99 Rick Perry, the Texas governor and 2012 “oops” presidential candidate, is spending the beginning of this week in Connecticut. Perry, as the governor of Texas, has little on-its-face reason to be in Connecticut. Except, of course, for one: Texas’s unemployment rate, which at 6.4 percent [...]
June 18, 2013
U.S. to resume talks with Taliban
U.S. to resume talks with Taliban NATO soldiers board a helicopter after a security handover ceremony outside Kabul, June 18, 2013. (Omar Sobhan … Perhaps channeling Winston Churchill’s famous warning about “the end of the beginning,” the White House on Tuesday announced plans for direct talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, but it cautioned against expecting any [...]
June 18, 2013
A week with iOS 7: The search for innovation amid renovation
A week with iOS 7: The search for innovation amid renovation iOS 7 Review Apple unveiled its vision for the future of mobile computing last week and the Internet erupted. A new feud was born, not between iOS fans and Android fans or between Apple fans and Samsung fans, but among iOS users themselves. On [...]
June 18, 2013
U.S. to talk peace with Taliban
U.S. to talk peace with Taliban Editor’s Note: Marc Young, an American journalist based in Berlin, is covering President Barack Obama’s visit for Yahoo News. BERLIN—When Barack Obama last visited Berlin back in 2008, Constanze Fröhlich felt like she was part of history. “He was about to become the first black president—I wanted to support [...]
June 18, 2013
The Best E-Readers for Places with Lots of Sun and Sand
The Best E-Readers for Places with Lots of Sun and Sand With a summer full of beach reading (hopefully) ahead of us, we’re faced with the technological dilemma of the season: How venture outside without ruining our fragile, not-amenable-to-the-elements e-reading gadgets. We (as in a third of Americans) bought our Kindles, Nooks, and iPads — at [...]
June 18, 2013
Afghan president’s forces take over for NATO
Afghan president’s forces take over for NATO KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a ceremony on Tuesday that his country’s armed forces are taking over the lead for security nationwide from the U.S.-led NATO coalition. The handover of responsibility is a significant milestone in the nearly 12-year war and marks a [...]
June 18, 2013