There’s enough nuclear material in Libya to make a dirty bomb, former UN nuclear inspection chief Olli Heinonen warned today, urging rebel authorities to move to secure it. Libya’s uranium enrichment program was dismantled in 2003, but a research center 20 miles east of Tripoli still has enough radioisotopes, radioactive…
Continue reading …Addiction and recovery site The Fix has what it bills as “Russell Armstrong’s Final Interview,” although it’s actually a recounting of a business meeting the Real Housewives husband had with site founder Maer Roshan two months before his suicide . Roshan paints Armstrong, who was interested in investing in the site,…
Continue reading …Amid bleak economic growth and unemployment, the stock market swoon, and the downgrade of the credit rating of the federal government, the fear of a dreaded double-dip recession–or even of a 21st-century Great Depression–has been taking hold. But a rough consensus among economists may be starting to emerge. According to this line of thinking, although
Continue reading …A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Mineral, Virginia, 87 miles outside of Washington, D.C., today. You can see the White House during the quake as the Secret Service walks on its roof in the video above. Shaking could be felt from Toronto to New York and all the way to North Carolina at close to 2 p.m.
Continue reading …Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have beat rape charges in New York , but the French electorate does not look very forgiving—just 23% of people in France want DSK to even attempt to squeeze his way into the Socialist primary, according to a new poll. With the Socialist nomination process already underway,…
Continue reading …People who started college in 2002 but never finished lost $3.8 billion in potential earnings last year, according to a new report. America’s colleges do not do a good job on average of retaining students, getting them to graduate on time, or even to graduate at all. Only slightly more than half of all people
Continue reading …Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • An Alaska woman has been charged with child abuse for forcing her adopted son to eat hot sauce on national TV. (AP) • Many building in the small town of Mineral, Virginia are severely damaged and not covered by quake insurance. (New York Times) • The Washington
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