A.T. Janos
President Barack Obama endorsed fellow Democrat Bill de Blasio for mayor of New York City on Monday, bringing more momentum to the "tale of two cities" progressive candidate who trounced the Democratic primary field earlier this month
"The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most important events in the history of life on our planet, establishing animals as the most visible part of the planet's marine ecosystems," lead researcher David Harper from Durham University said in a press release. "It would be naïve to think that any one cause ignited this phenomenal explosion of animal life. Rather, a chain reaction involving a number of biological and geological drivers kicked into gear, escalating the planet's diversity during a relatively short interval of deep time."
The House of Representatives voted to defund Obamacare in exchange for averting a partial federal shutdown by a Friday vote of 230 to 189. That vote was largely held along party lines, with two Democrats - Reps. Jim Matheson (Utah) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.) - joining the Republicans in voting "yes" and one Republican, Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) joining the Democrats in opposition.
A Texas Court overturned the conviction of former House of Representative majority leader Tom DeLay in a money laundering case dating back to the 2002 elections. Latinos Post looks at five other political scandals that have riveted our national attention since 2008.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is conducting a feasibility study on sending snake robots to space. Using the legless reptile as a physical model, the researchers at the SINTEF Research Institute in Norway and at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology are plotting a way to utilize robotic versions of the beast to explore the various nooks and crannies of Mars.
The Maniraptorans were small, meat-eating dinosaurs, and lived approximately 150 million years ago. Theropods first appeared 230 million years ago and possessed many early vestiges of birds, including hollow, air-filled bones, wishbones, and feathers.
Report shows that 46.5 million Americans lived in poverty in 2012, not statistically different from the 46.2 million Americans reported to be impoverished in 2011
Researchers at Dartmouth believe they're unlocking the key to understanding imagination, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
In a reprise of a standoff between President Obama and House Republicans from 2011, the debt ceiling is coming up for political debate in Washington again, and once again the consequences could be dire
Democratic party leaders began rallying behind mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio on Thursday, urging second-place primary finisher Bill Thompson to step out of the race in the name of party unity.
Under New York City election rules, an automatic runoff between the top two candidates in a primary occurs when no one candidate gets above 40 percent of the total vote. With 99 percent of votes counted, de Blasio currently has 40.3 percent of the vote, however with absentee ballots still arriving the possibility remains that the public advocate may fall just short of the benchmark.
Small nuclear reactor, dormant for six years, could produce enough for up to two nukes
NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has completed its longest trek yet, according to CBS News, driving 464 feet to the top of Panorama Point, where it took photographs of Waypoint 1, a collection of interesting rocks en route to the vehicle's final destination: Mount Sharp, a three-mile-high mountain.
Documents released Tuesday show that United States NSA officials accessed information to thousands of phone records that they didn't have legal authority to inspect, according to a report by the Miami Herald.
Rhetoric around Syria and military strikes from a United States-led coalition took a turn for the dovish when a gaffe by Secretary of State John Kerry opened the door for diplomatic negotiations on Syrian disarmament.
Last week, when pressed on how Syria could avoid military conflict with the United States, Kerry told reporters that the country could allow inspectors in and disarm all chemical weapons. When the Russian foreign ministry began to treat that as a starting point proposal for diffusing the tension between the two nations, Kerry attempted to walk back the statement as rhetorical.
President Barack Obama, however, has embraced the diplomatic idea, and by midday Tuesday afternoon the Associated Press and the Huffington Post reported that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime will declare their weapons arsenal and sign the chemical weapons ban they had - until now - resisted.
Arkansas Congressman Steve Womack's patronizing remark about clothing to one of his constituents at a town hall meet last week went viral, bringing out a non-apology apology from the U.S. Representative about the spirit of his comments.
At the town hall, the constituent - who's name is difficult to understand in this YouTube video - identifies himself as a Mexican-American from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Speaking with unaccented English, the young man, who is wearing a Mexican-flag colored polo shirt, describes having two Mexican parents and questions if Womack sees any hope for immigration reform to help create a pathway to citizenship for the eleven million undocumented residents of the United States.
