2015-05-27 U.S. Spotlight

The Week UK   

Oil price rise: is the world running short of oil?   
The Week UK
After a year in which the oil price plummeted and the industry adjusted to a period of global oversupply, an analyst has claimed that the world is running short of oil. The bold claim comes after Saudi Arabia and its main Middle East Opec partners turned down ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Health

TIME   

'Moderate' Drinking Harms Older People's Hearts?   
WebMD
TUESDAY, May 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- "Moderate" drinking might harm your heart if you're a senior citizen, a new study suggests. And women appear to be at greater risk for alcohol-related heart damage than men, the researchers found. "In an elderly ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Science

West Texas News   

Google Honours America's Space Star, Sally Ride with a Doodle   
West Texas News
Google honours Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space on her 64th birthday by dedicating the today's Google doodle to this chivalrous astronaut. Sally Ride, who was born in Los Angeles, died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. Ride is ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Sports

New York Times   

Cavaliers' LeBron James, With Rout of Hawks, Again Heads to Finals   
New York Times
CLEVELAND — LeBron James secured his fifth straight trip to the N.B.A. finals on Tuesday night, extending a storybook season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, his hometown team, with whom he reunited this season after a four-year separation. That James ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Entertainment

New York Post   

UPDATE 2-Advertisers ditch TLC's troubled '19 Kids and Counting'   
Reuters
(Adds Walgreen's decision to pull out, comment, viewership). By Daina Beth Solomon and Mary Milliken. LOS ANGELES May 26 (Reuters) - Four advertisers pulled out of TLC's reality show "19 Kids and Counting," putting pressure on the U.S. cable network to ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Technology

Firstpost   

Microsoft Cortana to support Android and iOS platform as part of its Windows 10 ...   
Firstpost
Microsoft announced today that it will be adding Cortana support for the Android as well as the iOS platform. This support is part of the Phone Companion app announcement, made by Joe Belfiore via a video, to be available on Android and iOS devices, ...

2015-05-27 U.S. Business

New York Times   

Breach Exposes IRS Tax Returns   
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Criminals used stolen data to gain access to past tax returns of more than 100,000 people through an application on the Internal Revenue Service's website, the agency said on Tuesday. Using Social Security numbers, birth dates, street ...