The lone wolf of Gaza
Military historians tell that the first rockets appeared on the battlefields of central Asia, in the Mongols’ 13th century invasions of the Chinese and the Eastern European fringe, as they burst from the steppes like a force of nature. Adapting Chinese black powder fireworks, they added the innovation of hollow tubes that could travel over […]
Idaho’s first Syrian refugee wants Americans to understand their country’s vetting process
Asmaa Albukaie was married at age 14. She had two children by the time she was 15. Then she took an unusual step for a stay-at-home Syrian mom: She signed up for a university degree in library science in Damascus. “I noticed that women in movies, American women, decide whatever they want to decide.
Pediatricians relax guidelines on screen time for kids to give more flexibility
The American Academy of Pediatrics is out with new recommendations to help kids maintain a healthy diet – of tablets and smartphones. Previous guidelines focused on stricter limits: No screen time for kids under 2, and just two hours a day for older kids. But with the media landscape shifting, the physician group decided flexibility […]
Man charged with threatening mother of his child with sledgehammer, box cutters
Jersey City man is accused of threatening the mother of his child twice in seven days — first with a sledge hammer and then with a pair of box cutters. The Garfield Avenue resident, whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of the victim is charged with aggravated assault, robbery, making terroristic threats, criminal […]
Muslims stage protest prayers near Rome’s Colosseum
Hundreds of Muslims offered Friday prayers near Rome’s Colosseum to protest the closure of mosques and other places of worship in Italy. The prayer demonstration was staged over what they see as unfair restrictions on freedom to practise their faith in the country, according to organisers who called the protest following the recent closure of […]
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products.” And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick’s massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names and other […]