i i Pope Francis waves from the window of his rooms at the Vatican to faithful at St. Peter’s Square at his Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican City on Sunday. Massimo Percossi/EPA/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Massimo Percossi/EPA/Landov Pope Francis waves from the window of his rooms at the Vatican to faithful at St.
A 70-year-old hedge fund founder has been shot dead in his Manhattan apartment. Police say Thomas Gilbert was shot in the head in his apartment on Beekman Place on the East Side. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are seeking the gunman. Gilbert founded Wainscott Capital Partners Fund in 2011. The fund has
i i Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Handout/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Handout/Getty Images Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Handout/Getty Images The trial of Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will go ahead as scheduled, beginning on Monday after a federal appeals court rejected a motion to delay it. In a 2-to-1 ruling, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
i i Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke speaks in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 2009 during a ceremony where he received the Congressional Gold Medal. Brooke died on Saturday at age 95. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption itoggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke speaks in the Rotunda on
i i Iraqi crowds cheer as the countdown and fireworks begin during a New Year’s Day celebration at Firdos Square in Baghdad on Wednesday. Hadi Mizban/AP hide caption itoggle caption Hadi Mizban/AP Iraqi crowds cheer as the countdown and fireworks begin during a New Year’s Day celebration at Firdos Square in Baghdad on Wednesday. Hadi
i i Want to change the food system? You can vote with your fork, but you can also join a campaign that’s confronting the problems directly. Tim Pannell/Corbis hide caption itoggle caption Tim Pannell/Corbis Want to change the food system? You can vote with your fork, but you can also join a campaign that’s confronting
i i Back in July, NPR launched a new blog. It had a funny name, but a clear objective: To tell memorable stories about people who don’t get much attention, who may face big problems, from health to poverty, but who still thrive. So which of the stories on Goats and Soda has been most
It was the brown snout and ears that caught their attention. Then they heard noises coming from under the snow. That was reason enough for three passing snowmobile riders to jump off their machines and start digging. “It looked like a guy’s arm at first because we were expecting to see a skier,” Marty Mobley
Tesla Motors recently chose Nevada for its massive battery factory in exchange for one of the biggest incentives packages in recent history. The factory will be built in a rural area about an hour east of Reno with little infrastructure and years of high unemployment. Small communities are scrambling to prepare for a wave of
i i Abebe, the owner of Abyssinia, a popular Ethiopian eatery in Nairobi, shows some of the foods permitted during the culture’s pre-Christmas fast. Orthodox Ethiopians typically eat just one vegan meal per day for 40 days before the Christmas feast on Jan. 7 Gregory Warner/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Gregory Warner/NPR Abebe, the owner
i i New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, appearing on a live call-in radio show in New York, Nov. 14, 1991, said that he wouldn’t be able to make a decision on his presidential candidacy until he solved problems with the state budget. The standoff with the legislature ultimately ran beyond the New Hampshire primary, preventing
Many cultures greet the new year with a feast that symbolically sets the table for the year ahead. As they sit down to traditional dishes, people often try to metaphorically eat their hopes and goals for the coming year. We here at The Salt did a quick survey of New Year’s food traditions around the