The April 28, 2013 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 117 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.
If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 69 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 28, 2027, in 295 days. You have lived for 4,817 days, or about 115,617 hours, or about 6,937,033 minutes, or about 416,221,980 seconds.
Date: 29 April 2013
By NOAM COHEN
Noam COHEN
Noam Cohen Link By Link column on various Twitter accounts that critics use to mock and poke fun at news media outlets like The Huffington Post, Slate and The New York Times.
Date: 28 April 2013
By SUSAN CHUMSKY
Susan CHUMSKY
Profile of Jonathan Krohn, onetime conservative prodigy who dropped out of college in order to become a journalist in Iraq; Krohn's turnabout made him something of a pariah among conservatives and ruptured his family.
Date: 29 April 2013
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Elisabetta POVOLEDO
Italian Prime Min Enrico Letta will have to rely on his widely acknowledged ability to negotiate as he tries to steer the country's new government at an exceptionally difficult time for an Italy buffeted by economic and social unrest.
Date: 29 April 2013
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Leslie KAUFMAN
Social media and entertainment Web site Reddit is criticized after site members turned amateur sleuths and ended up wrongly identifying several people as possible suspects of Boston Marathon bombings; incident highlights how site, as it grows bigger and more influential, is expected to exercise judgment.
Date: 29 April 2013
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Leslie KAUFMAN
Social media and entertainment Web site Reddit is criticized after site members turned amateur sleuths and ended up wrongly identifying several people as possible suspects of Boston Marathon bombings; incident highlights how site, as it grows bigger and more influential, is expected to exercise judgment. Photo (M)
Date: 29 April 2013
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
A study by the Cass Business School in London found that leaks had fallen in recent years, and pointed to a strategy of how buyers and sellers approached leaks to gain an advantage. Andrew Ross Sorkin and Peter Lattman discuss the use of leaked information.
Date: 29 April 2013
By TIM ARANGO
Tim ARANGO
Iraq's government revokes operating licenses of Al Jazeera and nine other television channels, saying that they are inciting sectarian conflict; move is widely perceived as a crackdown on dissent by the Shiite-led government that is facing an increasingly violent Sunni uprising.
Date: 29 April 2013
By TAYLOR ADAMS
Taylor ADAMS
See what you know about the news of the day.