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Hemp-made flag to fly over the Capitol on the 4th of July
A flag made from hemp will be flown over the U.S. Capitol Building on America’s birthday, according to the Washington Post. Colorado hemp advocate Michael Bowman and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) are the two...
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Seven severed heads found by highway in central Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities have found seven severed heads stuffed in plastic bags on the edge of a highway near the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco state prosecutors said on Wednesday. The...
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Diversion of Bolivian president’s plane enrages Latin American leaders
By Louise Egan and Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Latin American leaders slammed European governments on Wednesday for diverting Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane on rumors it was carrying...
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Will electric cars ever enter the mainstream?
Pardon my metaphor, but is the tank half-empty or half-full when it comes to electric cars? The bad news: start-up electric-car makers Aptera, Better Place, Coda and Fisker are out of business, or...
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Ohio woman rescued after car falls into 10-foot-deep sinkhole
A woman in northwest Ohio who was swallowed by a massive sinkhole on Wednesday managed to escape injury, according to the Toledo Blade. Pamela Knox, 60, was driving down the road around noon when the...
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Force of 600 firefighters tighten grip over deadly Arizona wildfire
By Tim Gaynor PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) – Firefighters on Wednesday tightened their grip on a blaze in Arizona that killed 19 of their comrades days earlier in the deadliest U.S. wildfire tragedy in...
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Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88
By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass...
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Missing brother of Senator Mark Udall found dead in Wyoming
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Udall’s younger brother, who had been missing for more than a week, was found dead on Wednesday in a Wyoming mountain range, but no foul play was...
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California’s biggest community college loses accreditation
By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s largest community college might be forced to close next year after regulators voted on Wednesday to strip City College of San Francisco of its...
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Union ‘fat cat’ stands up for working man’s America’s Cup
By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Contenders for the 34th America’s Cup have filled miles of prized San Francisco waterfront property with their yachts and tents and built villages of stores...
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Judges stand firm on California prison crowding relief plan
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – A federal court on Wednesday refused to back down from an order requiring California to reduce prison overcrowding by the end of the year, a goal that could force the...
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Internet sites join July 4 protest against surveillance
(Reuters) – The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests against the U.S. government’s surveillance of internet activity, a practice recently exposed by a former contractor for...
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Lock of Mick Jagger’s hair sells for $6,000 at auction
LONDON (Reuters) – An anonymous buyer snapped up a lock of Mick Jagger’s hair for 4,000 pounds ($6,000) after bidders pushed the price to double its pre-sale estimate, auction house Bonhams said. The...
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British official urges U.S. to press corruption charges against Murdoch
A prominent Labour MP has said US authorities should press corporate corruption charges against Rupert Murdoch’s global empire after he admitted in a secretly recorded meeting with staff on the Sun...
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Border vigilante and accused child molester Chris Simcox pleads not guilty
Once prominent border security activist Christopher Allen Simcox, co-founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, plead not guilty on Wednesday to six felony charges related to child molestation....
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No risk of pandemic yet from MERS virus: scientists
The new MERS coronavirus that has claimed dozens of lives in the Middle East does not yet have the ability to trigger a pandemic, but vigilance is needed in case it mutates, French scientists said on...
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Privacy group to file Supreme Court petition against NSA surveillance program
The Domestic Surveillance Project division of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced Thursday that it plans to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the Foreign...
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How hawkmoths jam sonar signals from bats
In the dark caves and jungles of the world, there’s an epic 65-million-year evolutionary battle going on between bats and moths. Moths are obviously the underdogs. But scientists are learning that...
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South Africa denies Nelson Mandela in permanent ‘vegetative state’
The South African government denied that former president Nelson Mandela is in a permanent vegetative state, as outlined in court documents filed on June 26. ” We confirm our earlier statement released...
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales threatens to close U.S. embassy
Bolivia’s president threatened to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions US fugitive...
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