| Guilty or Innocent? Making Sense of Oscar Pistorius' Retching Reaction
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 On Monday, in the most dramatic day of testimony in the Oscar Pistorius trial, the Olympic sprinter known as Blade Runner simply couldn't take it any more. As the pathologist presented the results of his autopsy on the body of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who Pistorius shot to death on Valentine's Day in 2013, the athlete brought his hands over his ears in a child-like attempt to block out what he was hearing, and even vomited as the graphic details of how the Steenkamp was likely killed were laid out. MoreHere's An Updated Tally Of All The People Who Have Ever Died From A Marijuana Overdose Huffington PostThese Disturbing Fast Food Truths Will Make You Reconsider Your Lunch Huffington PostBachelor Finale Style Recap: It's Time to Talk About the Dresses PeopleNFL free agency tracker Sports IllustratedChris Harrison's 'Bachelor' blog: 'After the Final Rose' Entertainment Weekly Were the dramatic reactions a physiological, visceral reaction to the horror of that night – after all, bystanders who witness ...
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| Lost: The mysterious, baffling disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
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 The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is the kind of mystery that's not supposed to be possible anymore. The Information Age is also the age of surveillance, of interconnectedness, of cloud computing, of GPS satellites, of intelligence agencies that can monitor terrorists from space or call in a drone strike from a control console on the other side of the world.
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| Report: Feds open criminal probe of GM switch recall
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 The U.S. attorney's office in New York has opened a criminal probe into the circumstances surrounding the General Motors ignition switch recall, according to reports on Tuesday by Reuters and the Associated Press, citing sources who asked not to be identified because the investigation is not public. Federal prosecutors will examine, according to the reports, whether GM is criminally liable in ...
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| Ackman Suffers $300 Million in Paper Losses as Fannie, Freddie Tumble
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 Bill Ackman Bloomberg Already battling against Herbalife Ltd., hedge-fund manager William Ackman found himself with another problem on Tuesday: a sharp decline in the price of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac common shares that incurred one-day paper loses of hundreds of millions of dollars. The over-the-counter stock prices of the two mortgage-finance giants tumbled Tuesday after the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Banking Committee agreed on the broad outlines of a bill to replace Fannie and Freddie. Fannie Mae common shares closed at $4.03 Tuesday, down 31%, and Freddie Mac shares closed at $4.04, down 27%. Mr. Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP owns nearly 10% of the firms' common shares, a bet in part that Fannie and Freddie would escape liquidation and be revamped, despite various legislative proposals in Congress that would create new mortgage guarantors. More In Fannie Mae • Ackman Suffers $300 Million in Paper Losses as Fannie, Freddie Tumble • Fannie-Freddie Bill Clears Hurdle • ...
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| iOS 7.1 Makes Your iPhone 4 Usable Again
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 When iOS 7 was released, iPhone 4 users experienced a dramatic slowdown that in many cases left devices nearly unusable. Thankfully, according to Ars Technica, the just-released iOS 7.1 fixes a bunch of problems and makes iOS 7 actually work on the iPhone 4.
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