Yahoo! Chief Executive Marissa Mayer listens in a Startup Battlefield session during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse in San Francisco, California September 12, 2012. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

Yahoo joins growing list of bidders for Hulu: sources

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - Yahoo has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters.  Full Article 

New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses 4:15pm EDT

NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses.

President Obama speaks about his administration's counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair in Washington, May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Obama faces hurdles ending 'war on terror'

WASHINGTON - President Obama wants to roll back some of the controversial aspects of the "war on terror," but efforts to alter the global fight against Islamist militants will face the usual hurdle at home: staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress.  Full Article 

Police officers leave a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft on the tarmac at Stansted Airport, southern England, May 24, 2013. REUTERS/ Paul Hackett

UK escorts Pakistan plane descent, arrests two

LONDON - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.  Full Article 

A worker repairs a boardwalk as a crane removes remnants of the Jet Star roller coaster that had been left in the ocean after Superstorm Sandy hit Seaside Heights in New Jersey, May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Jersey shore hopes Sandy won't dim summer

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, New Jersey - The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summer, with businesses making last-minute preparations and officials declaring the resort towns ready for visitors seven months after Superstorm Sandy.  Full Article 

An Afghan policeman takes up a position after explosions in Kabul May 24, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

Taliban attack U.N. compound in Afghan capital

KABUL - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, setting off explosions and battling the security forces.  Full Article 

Chickens sit inside cages after a New Taipei City Department of Environmental Protection worker sprayed sterilizing anti-H7N9 virus disinfectant around chicken stalls in a market in New Taipei City April 8, 2013. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

New bird flu may spread among humans: study

HONG KONG - The new H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted between mammals not only via direct contact but also in airborne droplets, and may be capable of spreading from person to person, Chinese and American researchers have found.  Full Article 

Family members of murdered soldier Lee Rigby (L-R) his mother and stepfather Lyn and Ian Rigby, his wife Rebecca Rigby and her mother Susan Metcalfe, react as his stepfather reads a statement at a news conference at the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers headquarters in Manchester May 24, 2013. REUTERS/Dave Thompson/POOL

British security services in focus after attack

LONDON - Britain's security services faced questions over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence officers.  Full Article | Video 

Jack Shafer

What war on the press?

The Obama administration's legal battering of the press, while real, hardly rises to the level of war. The leak crackdown - and there has been one - has been mostly on the supply side, in the bureaucracy where the government leakers dwell, and not the demand side in newsrooms.  Commentary 

Zachary Karabell

Two cheers for the tech industry's goofy energy

It’s easy to dismiss Internet ecosystems as froth, whether in New York or Silicon Valley. Yet optimism and ambition are not just heady. They are essential for constructive change.  Commentary 

Reihan Salam

Obama's legacy could be moral, not political

Lately Obama seems like he's playing defense. One possible alternative, hinted at in a recent speech, is that Obama might take advantage of his prestige and moral authority to make the case for stronger American families.  Commentary 

David Rohde

Changing Assad’s calculus

Even as the international community discusses 'grand strategy,' Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is taking decisive action.  Commentary 

Chrystia Freeland

Some cracks in the technocrat cult

We are living in the age of the technocrats, but there are sound reasons why not to rely mechanically on technocratic solutions. That’s why it is worth reading a new paper by Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James Robinson of Harvard University.  Commentary 

Nicholas Wapshott

Lessons of the London butchers

The cases of the butchers of London and the Boston bombers raise an even more fundamental question: What exactly is terrorism? Since 9/11, the central management of al Qaeda’s operation has been defeated and the duty to continue the Islamist fight has passed to individual jihadists.  Commentary