A White House official has advised Pyongyang to admit it is guilty of hacking Sony Pictures’ database and pay damages to the film company. Washington dismissed North Korea’s proposal to hold a joint investigation. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council (NSC), Mark Stroh, said Saturday that “If the North Korean government wants to help, they can admit their culpability and... 

Howard Marks believes the plunge in oil prices may usher in a new era for investing in distressed debt. For more than three years, the billionaire investor and Oaktree Capital Group LLC (OAK) co-founder urged his deal makers to be cautious, warning of loose credit standards and high prices for distressed assets. That may change as the price of oil plummets, Marks said in a letter to clients yesterday. “With... 

Researches find security flaws in a system used by cellphone carriers that allows spying on mobile phone traffic. Researchers have found a security hole in a system used by global cellphone carriers that can open the door for hackers to eavesdrop on private phone calls, text messages and data traffic on a large scale. The security flaws discovered by the Berlin-based Security Research Labs could affect... 

A new composite image of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 contains X-rays from Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Two colliding galaxies in the Canis Major constellation put on an impressive light display that was captured in a composite image using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxies, named NGC 2207 and IC 2163, were “caught in a grazing encounter,” NASA said in a statement. The two have hosted... 

​American forces were involved in their first ground battle with Islamic State fighters, according to Kurdish media outlet Shafaq News, near the Ain Al-Assad base in the Anbar province of Iraq early Sunday. The report could not be independently verified. US forces allegedly came to the aid of tribal fighters and the Iraqi Army battling Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) militants in the... 

GhostSwimmer is a five-foot long robot resembles a shark, weighs 100 pounds and can operate in various water depths. The United States and Russia are competing in the Navy field by preparing to deploy unmanned submarine drones in international waters amid growing tensions between the two countries. The US Navy’s Pacific Command announced recently that it has successfully completed tests on its GhostSwimmer... 

An absurd petition recently made its rounds at a prestigious college campus and actually garnered signatures despite it supporting the deportation of American citizens in exchange for illegal immigrants. Campus Reform, a website dedicated to highlighting bias and hypocrisy at colleges across the nation, devised a mock petition which asked students from George Washington University, located in Washington... 

A chilling report published today by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) is warning of potentially “catastrophic unknown consequences” relating to President Putin’s issuance to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) of orders to initiate what is commonly known within the Kremlin as the “Samson Defense” designed to crash the Russian ruble, while at the same time insuring the economic collapse... 

New population projections by the US Census Bureau show that whites will become a minority by 2044. The US will be home to a youthful, growing minority population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining white population. The new projections from the Census Bureau show two trends for American’s population: a long-term decline for the nation’s white population – which... 

NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back scientific data suggesting new evidence of water on Mars. The rover released pictures indicating that the Gale Crater on Mars used to be a huge lake of water far back in history. With the new evidence of water, the Red Planet must have been suitable for some form of life in ancient times. NASA also maintains that Mount Sharp in Mars was shaped by sediments within... 

Regarded by many as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, tourists travel from around the globe to take in the breathtaking view from edge of the Grand Canyon. Usually they can see for miles, gazing out across the 18miles-wide valley carved out by the Colorado River 17 million years ago, but not today. A rare weather phenomenon has caused a thick sea of fog to rise from the foot of the canyon,... 

The $1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the Senate Saturday night is over six times larger than the estimated number of galaxies in the observable universe. $1.1 trillion is a little over a thousand billions and astronomers estimate there’s only around 170 billion galaxies in known existence, stretching nearly 14 billion light-years away in every direction. Additionally, one study estimates... 

Pope Francis has promised that your favorite pooch will have a spot in heaven, along with all other animals. He made the vow while comforting a little boy mourning the loss of his dog, according to media reports. During his weekly address in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, the pope told the boy that “paradise is open to all of God’s creatures.” “One day, we will see our animals... 

In addition to declaring economic war on Russia, attempting to cripple the largest exporter of natural gas in the world, and arming a fanatical clique of fascists in Kiev, S.2828, dubbed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014, dusts off a Cold War relic. The final paragraph of a summary of S.2828 states: Directs the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors to submit to Congress a plan for... 

A study by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims up to 100 million Americans could lose electrical power in the event of a magnetic space storm, which would knock out the electric grid and cause other infrastructure to fail. An internal fact sheet in 2012, from the just-released DHS’ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), noted that the damage and impact from a future solar storm...