Tweet WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say a drone that crashed inside Iran over the weekend was one of a fleet of stealth aircraft that have spied on Iran for years from a U.S. air base in Afghanistan. They say the CIA stealth-version of the RQ-170 unmanned craft was also used to survey Osama bin Laden’s [...]
Tweet GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s position on payroll tax cuts took another turn on Monday. The New York Times reports that Romney came out in favor of a one-year extension, lending support to a policy that has been a President Obama staple. “I would like to see the payroll tax cut extended just because [...]
Tweet I’m Laura Rowley, the new editor of Huff/Post 50, a veteran journalist and author. Although I fall just outside the cohort of 77 million people born between 1946 and 1964, I have nine older siblings who are part of the wave, and always felt it was my generation. My background is personal finance and [...]
Tweet “Today 366 million people have diabetes. At a conservative estimate there must then be 1 billion people who either have diabetes or live with someone who does,” said Professor Jean Claude Mbanya, President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). Dignitaries at IDF World Congress Opening Ceremony. Photo © Riva Greenberg Mbanya made his proclamation [...]
Tweet It’s often said fashion is full of contradictions. Clothes can project the image of both Madonna and whore, child and woman, protector and wrathful harbinger of war. And although the freedom to change your mind is a precious one worth fighting for, being a hypocrite does not fall under the same righteous protection. This [...]
