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Man Rowing Across Atlantic Claims He Was Attacked By Pirates
A New Yorker trying for the fourth time to row across the Atlantic Ocean was raided by pirates who left him stranded without food or water near Haiti, according to his publicist. Victor Mooney was not...
View ArticleIndia May Ban E-Cigarettes
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - India is considering a ban on electronic cigarettes over the risks to public health that they may cause, a senior Health Ministry official told Reuters....
View ArticleChina To Send Elite Army Unit To Ebola-Hit Liberia
By Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) - China will dispatch an elite unit of the People's Liberation Army to help Ebola-hit Liberia, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, responding to U.N....
View ArticleMeet The Working Mother Taking Her Pregnancy Discrimination Case To The...
WASHINGTON -- When Peggy Young became pregnant in 2006, she had every intention of continuing to work delivering packages for UPS in Maryland. At the urging of the company's occupational health...
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Vet Homelessness Drops As 2015 Deadline For Ending Issue Nears: Report
The number of veterans living on the streets is on the decline -- a welcome update considering that the Department of Veterans Affairs' deadline to end vet homelessness is fast approaching. On a single...
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Divided cities learn lessons from one another's struggles
By Charles M. Sennott BELFAST -- This city has risen in the aftermath of the 1998 Good Friday agreement, a treaty that brought an end to 30 years of sectarian violence known as "The Troubles." Pockets...
View ArticleDaniel and Julian's Story From The Let Love Define Family Series
In this week’s Huffington Post Gay Voices RaiseAChild.US “Let Love Define Family™” series, we explore the journey of two men -- one who adopted as a single parent and the other who joined him to create...
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How To Donate To Fight Ebola Without Getting Scammed
(The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Mitch Lipka Oct 31 (Reuters) - Many charities are immersed in the fight to control the Ebola epidemic, but so far the...
View ArticleIt's Young Girls and Women on the Front Lines of the Ebola Crisis
As in most emergencies, girls in Sierra Leone serve as primary care givers and providers in their families. They are at the frontline of the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak but invisible in the...
View ArticleWhat Can Mandela's Jail Cell Teach Us About Leadership?
I believe that Nelson Mandela was the greatest political leader of the 20th century -- because of his 27 years of spiritual formation in prison. Visiting Mandela's jail cell on Robben Island was the...
View ArticleAllies in Business Play Important Roles Furthering LGBT Equality
To state the obvious, a gap remains between individual, corporate, and community aspirations regarding progress concerning diversity and inclusion and the persistent -isms and -phobias that still seem...
View ArticleGood Coaching and Its Effect on Bullying
October is National Bullying Prevention Month, when organizations and people around the country work to help raise awareness of bullying prevention through events, activities, outreach, and education....
View ArticleUsing Data to Reduce the Health Divide Between Women and Men
When I gave birth to my daughter years ago, I realized that without making a single conscious decision, her trajectory in life would be significantly influenced by the fact that she was a girl....
View ArticleThe Conundrum of the Midterms
For years now, we've been trying to convince young people to take voting seriously. We've used all kinds of methods, but the most effective has been showing up where they like to hang out and talking...
View ArticleThe Conundrum of the Midterms
For years now, we've been trying to convince young people to take voting seriously. We've used all kinds of methods, but the most effective has been showing up where they like to hang out and talking...
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Transformation: How Superheroes Pay It Forward
When she was a girl, Lauri Burns was regularly molested by her dad. One afternoon her father hadn't realized she had a girlfriend visiting. That friend ended up accidentally witnessing the horror of...
View Article'Ladyparts Justice' Parody Shows Just How Scary Personhood Legislation Really Is
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern satire from reality when it comes to women's issues. As three states could decide that life legally begins at conception, a new parody conveys the rather...
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The Real Monsters
Each year at Halloween, our neighborhoods are bustling as children go door to door dressed as zombies, vampires, skeletons or something else fantastic and scary. For many children Halloween is the rare...
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This Is What A Perfect Dog Adoption Looks Like
Right from the start, Gunner the dog showed himself to be a great fit with his brand new adoptive family in San Jose, California -- by sticking his tongue out for a photo, just like they did. "It's...
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We Could End Hunger If We Recovered Half Of The 1.3 Billion Tons Of Food...
Advocates claim a new, innovative website could help salvage some of the alarming amount of global food waste. The Global Community of Practice on Food Loss Reduction was launched last week by three...
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