The end of this year marks an end to the official combat role for the U.S. in Afghanistan. As 2015 dawns, U.S. troops transition to a training and support role, even as the Taliban is increasing its attacks. And in Iraq, more U.S. troops will be on the way to a war that was supposed to be over, at least as far as the U.S. goes.
A family survives the Armenian genocide and its long aftermath.
Two decades before marriage equality took off in the States, a pair of dogged Scandinavian activists set the stage for a ruling that would change the world.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system will debut with an entirely new web browser code-named Spartan, according to a report citing anonymous sources.
The minimum wage will rise in 21 states in 2015, putting it above the federal pay floor in more than half the USA and highlighting the impact of a national movement to boost the earnings of low-paid workers.
Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress in the wake of his guilty plea on a felony tax evasion charge, sources told the Daily News Monday night.
Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang. Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad. But on Southern California’s streets they have been vanishing. Has LA figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
The 113th just barely avoided the dubious title of “least productive Congress in modern history.” But that’s only because of an exceptionally active lame duck session.
Stock photos tell us what we think a perfect rape survivor should look like: white, middle class and on the verge of tears.
White male nerds need to recognize that other people had traumatic upbringings, too — and that's different from structural oppression.
The human body is indeed a miracle of science.
E-mails show how a direct appeal from a Republican donor helped secure a multimillion-dollar federal contract for Carnival Cruise Line in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Sorry Comcast, you came close.
Police fear a new wave of violence against officers. Activists fear an end to efforts to hold cops accountable when they cross the line.
There is $199 option without alcohol, which... if you can do that, God bless you.
James Bond is persuasive over martinis, but when it comes to pitching a car, the super-spy has a shaky track record. Remember the Ford Galaxie 500, the AMC Hornet or the MP Lafer? Probably not. Those are just a few of the vehicles that were discontinued not long after Bond revved them through cinemas.
The loss of AirAsia QZ8501 evokes memories of Flight MH370, which also disappeared from radar screens in March of this year. While these two instances occurred relatively close together in time, the chances of such high-profile planes falling off the radar without any warning are extremely rare — especially within the same year.
Jay Wilds, key witness from 'Serial,' tells his story for the first time.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002, thrusting a racial controversy into House Republican ranks days before the party assumes control of both congressional chambers.
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is set to be switched back on in March — hoping that a £97 million upgrade could push it to even greater discoveries, after it found the “God particle” in 2012.
There was a reason that North Korea saw all this attention and outrage as in its interest — even if it came at the cost of unknown forces shutting down North Korea's internet.
In March 2013, David Kasnic was in limbo: He was living in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he’d gone to college, and waiting to start an internship at the Wall Street Journal in New York. It seemed like as good a time as any to photograph rattlesnakes.
The mini patties are, according to the chain, "chock full of lots of vegetables like carrots, zucchini, peas, spinach, broccoli, and more" — which means they could be delicious or they could taste like repurposed mulch.
For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.
New Yorkers have been pouring into the city’s homeless shelters throughout 2014, bringing the number of homeless people to a new record high: 58,913.
It takes a crazy person to sail fearlessly into giant waves in the North Sea. It takes an even crazier person to laugh while doing it.
Bob Iger has spent much of his near decade at Disney wearing an additional corporate hat: CTO. The result? He has brought the coolest innovations from Lucasfilm, Pixar, Marvel, and ESPN into a single galaxy.
Seems she's been practicing that "reverential fear" vibe since she was a teen.
"Green-gold inland hills of Southern California is our home, or at least where the seeds were pushed thumbdown and left to germinate, almost a decade, and then he reenlisted as an officer, young wife, me and my sister in tow, as the military deposited us across wide plains of America, even a dip to Europe."
More protein than beef. More omegas than salmon. Tons of calcium, antioxidants, and vitamin B. In their secret R&D lab, the scientists at Beyond Meat concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of the real thing with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.
It isn't just Gmail. The government of China, which this weekend launched a tweak to its Great Firewall filtering regime that blocked much of mainland China's access to Google's e-mail service, has on Monday cut off access nationwide to Google Search as well, reports one Internet intelligence expert.
Garlic smells delicious when it's being sautéed in butter, but foul when it's in someone's mouth. Why? We'll tell you about the remarkable tour a garlic compound takes around your body, and why it ends up right back in your mouth.
Cubans have found a unique albeit semi-legal way around their country’s practically nonexistent internet access — external hard drives passed from person to person.
Don't get too crumb blasted you dweebs.
Pixar’s "Toy Story 3" made an absolute mountain of money, but due to a tiff between Disney and the studio in 2004, we almost got a very different sequel focused on Woody and the gang.
Every time we take to the open road, we entrust our lives to a safety net of legal protection and basic human decency. That system has failed.
Normally, this incredible array of cameras is used to film a British talent show. This is probably a better use.
The guys over at Regular Car Reviews are a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stuffy world of auto journalism. And this bit of testing to see if you can fit a 5-foot-10 man inside the trunk of a Ferrari 360 Modena is the perfect example.
This holiday season, a PLoS One study informs us that by merely plopping into the seat of a car or airplane, we can unknowingly pick up dust mites — microscopic 8-legged arthropods that eat the dead parts of our bodies such as skin scales, dandruff flakes, and hair.
A Virgin Atlantic 747-400 made a perfect emergency landing at Gatwick on Monday. We imagine the pilot just yelled at everyone to lean to the left.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯is so 2014. Here are the emoticons you’ll be overusing in 2015.
Mayor Bill de Blasio received some boos in the crowd at Madison Square Garden as he stepped up to the podium to speak at the NYPD cadet graduation on Monday.
Emerson Spartz — who founded the popular Harry Potter fan site MuggleNet when he was 12 — calls himself an aggregator, but he acts more like a day trader.
Physicians have ceased to use the term suffering. In medical circles, uttering of the "s" word within hospital wards and outpatient clinics occurs with approximately the same frequency as does the shouting of racial slurs. It’s just not done.
Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health.
In 1993, the New York Times called rabies a "shared national nightmare" for Britain. What changed?
Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, were walking from their wedding rehearsal on Saturday at the 16th tee box at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii when they were informed they'd have to move their wedding, scheduled for the next day. President Barack Obama wanted to play through.
Look at all these people who probably lost their jobs or at least incurred decency fines!
The disaster raised awareness of tsunamis and prompted nations to pump money into research and warning systems, but hurdles remain in saving lives for everyone under their threat.
The core members of a group calling itself “Lizard Squad” — which took responsibility for attacking Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft‘s Xbox networks and knocking them offline for Christmas Day — want very much to be recognized for their actions. So, here’s a closer look at two young men who appear to be anxious to let the world know they are closely connected to the attacks.
A member of the Chaos Computer Club hacker network claims to have cloned a thumbprint of a German politician by using commercial software and images taken at a news conference.
We're gonna try it. But we're not gonna like it.
Who knew our next Busta Rhymes was right in front of us, probably doing stories on town hall meetings.
Among the notable numbers is Shake Shack's revenue, which totaled $82.5 million for the fiscal year ended Dec. 25, 2013, and which totaled $83.8 million for the nine months ended Sept. 24, 2014.
"New Year's Eve is like the death of a pet. You know it's going to happen, but somehow you're never really prepared for how truly awful it is."
Chances are your personal information was hacked this year — even if you didn’t realize it.
87% of parents are planning to celebrate New Year's Eve with their kids, so Netflix created an on-demand countdown hosted by King Julien, the animated lemur from the company's series "All Hail King Julien." Families can start streaming it any time they please.
Razor blades and iPhones are like addictive drugs. Here's why that's bad for your wallet and the economy.
If you're expecting something about a tuxedo, get your mind in the gutter.
U.S. and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.
With 2014 soon coming to an end, potentially the year’s biggest archeological discovery of an underground city has come from Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir, which is known world-wide for its Fairy Chimneys rock formation.
The notion of cars as holiday gifts sprang from the imagination of an ad agency more than a decade ago. But in recent years, many of the industry's marketing minds have enthusiastically embraced it — and so have car buyers.
Technology such as sensors and magnets are being weaved into the designs of new personal equipment with the intent to detect, disperse, displace and absorb force and further reduce the risk of brain injury in impact sports.
Several tool-assisted players worked to uncover some of the most difficult-to-trigger glitches in this beloved iteration of the "Mortal Kombat" series. By 2 minutes in, it no longer resembles a playable game.
The modern international system is coming apart, and anti-democratic forces are winning.
A couple of weeks ago, Swedish police raided the offices where The Pirate Bay’s servers were being kept, essentially knocking them offline. In the process, many The Pirate Bay copies have sprung up, one of them courtesy of the folks at IsoHunt who have also released The Open Bay.
Glow in the dark watches were all the rage in the 20s, thanks to the magic or radium. But the girls who were painting the watch faces had no idea they were slowly swallowing a radioactive substance.
“The Wolf of Wall Street,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Disney’s animated smash “Frozen” were the two most-pirated movies for the year — with each title downloaded about 30 million times by torrent users worldwide in 2014.
Last weekend, Anonymous, the internet's favorite protest group, threatened to release stills from a sex tape featuring pop star Iggy Azalea within 48 hours, unless she apologized for racially insensitive comments and behavior. Well, kind of.