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Drudge Retort: Live: Obama Counterterrorism Speech
President Obama will outline new policies for overseas drone strikes and discuss renewed steps to close the terrorism prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a major national security speech Thursday. The speech is streaming live on WhiteHouse.Gov and sche...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 11:01am -07:00T (45 words)
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Drudge Retort: Mathematician Makes Prime Breakthrough
Yitang Zhang is a largely unknown mathematician who has struggled to find an academic job after he got his PhD, working at a Subway sandwich shop before getting a gig as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. He's just had a paper accepted for pub...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 8:31am -07:00T (92 words)
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Drudge Retort: Stop Chinese Bear Bile Farming
Andrew Jacobs: An extract from the gallbladder of bears is believed to have medicinal benefits, but animal welfare advocates aim to convince Chinese consumers of the barbarity of bile farming. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:16am -07:00T (30 words)
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Drudge Retort: Tea Party Group Hides Finances
For a group that has demanded financial accountability and transparency from the Obama administration, Tea Party Patriots (TPP) has not embraced those principles in its own business affairs. It has been highly secretive about its finances, and the organiz...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:16am -07:00T (58 words)
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Drudge Retort: Microsoft Announces Xbox One Console
Nick Wingfield: Microsoft?s new game console also serves as a home entertainment hub, a response to the rising popularity of mobile devices for playing games. ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:16am -07:00T (25 words)
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Drudge Retort: U.K. Sued for Rendering Libyan to Qaddafi
The British government is trying to force a case examining its role in the rendering of an opponent of Muammar Gaddafi back to Libya in 2004 to be heard in a secret court, or not at all.In the first preliminary hearing over the claim brought by Abdel Haki...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:16pm -07:00T (134 words)
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Drudge Retort: Nightclub Set Up in N.Y.C. Water Tower
A water tower atop a neglected building in New York's Chelsea district hosted an illegal nightclub for adventurous guests from March to May. The staff communicated using headsets, checking that the operation remained unnoticed outside. In the event that t...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:01pm -07:00T (106 words)
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Drudge Retort: Bernanke: Fed Stimulus Still Needed
Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke, said in prepared remarks to Congress that a premature tightening of monetary policy "would carry a substantial risk of slowing or ending the economic recovery." At its most recent meeting this month, the Fed said ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 6:01pm -07:00T (107 words)
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Drudge Retort: Driver Pulled Over, Fires AR-15 at Cop
After his car was pulled over early Wednesday morning for driving without headlights, a Longmont, Colo., man allegedly got out and fired an AR-15 at a Longmont police officer. The officer returned fire and shot 28-year-old Jonathan Shank at least three ti...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:46pm -07:00T (84 words)
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Drudge Retort: No Food Stamps for Thee, Farm Subsidies for Me
Stephen Fincher, a deranged Republican congressman from Tennessee, is very angry that the federal government is committed to preventing poor people from starving to death: Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, who supports cuts to the progr...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 4:46pm -07:00T (159 words)
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Drudge Retort: U.S. Admits Drones Have Killed 4 Americans
One day before President Barack Obama delivers a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. A U.S. strike delibe...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 3:46pm -07:00T (121 words)
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Drudge Retort: Man Beheaded in London Terror Attack
A man has been killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot by police in London. Prime Minister David Cameron said there were "strong indications that it is a terrorist incident" and the UK would "never buckle" in the face of such attacks. After polic...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (136 words)
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Drudge Retort: Physicists Find Evidence of 'Multiverse'
The first "hard evidence" that other universes exist has been found by scientists, the Daily Mail reports. Cosmologists studying a map of the universe from data gathered by the Planck spacecraft have concluded that it shows anomalies that can only have be...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (121 words)
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Drudge Retort: FBI Agent Kills Man Who Knew Tsarnaev
A man being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed in Orlando, Fl., Tuesday by an FBI agent. "There was some sort of aggressive movement that led the FBI agent to believe he was under threat and he opened fire," a l...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 1:16pm -07:00T (96 words)
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Drudge Retort: Weiner Announces Run for NYC Mayor
Anthony Weiner kicked off his New York City mayoral campaign Tuesday with a video announcement posted to YouTube. The video opens with a shot of Weiner, wife Huma Abedin and their son having breakfast. "We love this city, and no one will work harder to ma...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 12:01pm -07:00T (77 words)
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