​U.S. Warns Sochi-Bound Airlines About Toothpaste Bombs

Taylor Berman · 02/06/14 07:56AM

The Department of Homeland Security has warned U.S. and foreign airlines headed to Sochi for the Olympics about a new terror threat: toothpaste bombs. The hygiene product that nearly everyone travels with could be used to stash bomb-making ingredients, according to one senior U.S. official who spoke with ABC News.

Hamilton Nolan · 02/05/14 05:16PM

Mohamed El-Erian recently announced he's leaving as CEO of the bond firm PIMCO. Not to worry, investors: the company says "we are a better team at this moment than we were before." Soooo... why was El-Erian getting paid $100 million a year, then?

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/05/14 04:38PM

[Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, right, listens to Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday during the committee's hearing on data breaches and combating cybercrime. Image via Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.]

Russia Kindly Bars Garbage Yogurt From the Olympic Area

Hamilton Nolan · 02/05/14 04:22PM

Russia may be run by an iron-fisted dictatorial tyrant who's using the Olympic games as his own personal tool to legitimize his corrupt and unjust reign. Sure. But that doesn't mean he needs to make things worse by allowing shitty yogurt to cross his borders.

Adam Weinstein · 02/05/14 04:06PM

Women's rights activist and Rush Limbaugh straw-woman Sandra Fluke announced today that she will not be running for Rep. Henry Waxman's open congressional seat—because she's decided to run for the California State Senate.

Recruiters Scammed Army For Millions in Signup Bonuses During Iraq War

Adam Weinstein · 02/05/14 03:21PM

As the war in Iraq worsened and military enlistments flagged, the Army National Guard began a novel bonus program to recruit more troops. That desperation to hit quotas may have cost taxpayers $100 million in fraudulent bonuses by more than a thousand crooked recruiters, a new investigation shows.

We Must Build a New New York City Somewhere Warm

Hamilton Nolan · 02/05/14 02:44PM

This nation has a very fundamental problem. Its best city—New York City—exists in a northern latitude so extreme that it is a frigid sub-Arctic wasteland for half the year. Why don't we rebuild somewhere down south?