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Mozilla unveils two smartphone prototypes
The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday unveiled two preview smartphones as it invited developers to try its new open-source mobile operating system challenging Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. The...
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Oakland spends $250K to hire ex-LAPD chief Bratton
The Oakland City Council voted 7-1 on Tuesday night to hire former Los Angeles and New York Police Chief Bill Bratton as part of a team of consultants tasked with stopping the city’s increasing crime...
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South Korea tries to recall a U.S. adoption
South Korea tries to recall a US adoption (via The Christian Science Monitor) The bitter legal struggle of an American couple to adopt a Korean baby is touching on nationalist and ethnic sensitivities...
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Distressed dolphin seeks out diver for help
Diving in waters near Hawaii recently, a group of photographers were surprised to see a Bottlenose dolphin swim right up to them seemingly in distress. As they discovered on the night of Jan. 11, the...
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Women to assume combat roles in U.S. military
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta issued an order on Wednesday removing the military’s ban on women in combat roles, according to The Associated Press. Panetta’s order overturns a 1994 rule barring...
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Clinton slams Rand Paul in Benghazi hearing: ‘I have taken responsibility’
It seems that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was not the only Republican to get an earful from outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Wednesday’s hearing on the attack on the U.S. consulate in...
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Scientists resume controversial mutant bird flu research
Scientists who created a mutant bird flu virus said Wednesday they will resume the controversial research after taking a 12-month break to allay fears of the bug escaping the lab or falling into...
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House votes to lift debt ceiling until May
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to suspend the US debt ceiling until May, averting a potential default crisis and buying time for high-stakes budget negotiations. The bill now goes to...
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Former foreign service member: ‘Asses’ McCain and Paul belong on Ag Committee...
A woman who said she was a former member of the foreign service called C-SPAN on Wednesday to blast Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Rand Paul (R-KY) for being “asses” who deserved to be moved to the...
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Film exposes link between U.S. evangelicals and violent antigay Ugandan movement
Money raised by evangelical Christians in the United States is fueling a violent antigay movement in Uganda, according to the “Gospel of Intolerance” by filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. “American...
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Study: Military women experience unintended pregnancy rates at double U.S....
A new study released in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology found that military women experience a higher-than-average unintended pregnancy rate, and the rate actually increased between...
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Researchers: Pesticides causing dramatic die-off in frog population worldwide
A plunge in the world’s population of frogs and toads may be blamed, at least in part, on farm pesticides, researchers in Germany said on Thursday. Tests of fungicides and insecticides, when used at...
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Biden to doomsday preppers: Shotguns are better than AR-15s in earthquakes
Vice President Joe Biden is trying to assure survivalists and those preparing for doomsday that they will still be able to protect themselves in case of disaster even if assault weapons are banned...
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Rapping the revolution: Syrian sets war to music
If his words were bullets, Ahmad El-Khalaf would have already brought down President Bashar al-Assad to end the bloodshed tearing apart his family’s homeland of Syria. But for now, this 23-year-old has...
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Appeals court throws out Mattel’s challenge to Bratz
A US appeals court threw out Thursday a multi-million dollar award against toymaker Matell in a long-running dispute with a rival over Bratz children’s dolls. Matell was ordered to pay its competitor...
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Veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slaps down critics of women in combat
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D), one of the first female combat veterans to serve in Congress, said Thursday it was wrong to assume that allowing women in combat would reduce military fitness. Gabbard...
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FEC vice chair Don McGahn: Opponents of Citizens United ruling want to...
Donald McGahn, the Republican vice chair of the Federal Election Commission, defended the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision in video published Thursday by the Cato Institute. The...
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U.S. investigators ‘very concerned’ by Boeing 787 fire
US government investigators said Thursday that they were very concerned over what they called an “unprecedented” battery fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The fire, and a second 787 battery problem...
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Exiled Iran lawmakers offer nuclear compromise
Exiled former Iranian lawmakers on Thursday proposed a compromise to avert conflict over Tehran’s nuclear program, calling for an end to sensitive uranium enrichment and an easing of US-led sanctions....
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More Sufi shrines torched in Tunisia: witnesses
Two Sufi mausoleums were torched in Tunisia on Thursday, police and media reported, in the latest violence the mystical Muslim sect claims is being carried out by ultra-conservative Salafist Muslims....
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