World Istanbul Cancels Gay Pride Parade Following Threats

Istanbul's governor has banned a gay pride parade in the city for the second straight year, citing threats from conservative Muslim groups. Last week, the ultra-nationalist Alperen Hearths group...

World Israeli Air Strike Hits Syria After Bombing

The Israeli Air Force launched a strike in Syria after several projectiles were fired out of the war-torn country into the Golan Heights region Saturday, Israeli officials said. The air raid...

World 'How can they hate us so much?’ asks father of Muslim...

Sixteen-year-old's slaying was the latest in a string of anti-Muslim attacks during the holy Islamic period of Ramadan. Tensions have been rising since the Hindu nationalists government restricted...

World New White House Usher a Former Trump Hotel Employee

First Lady Melania Trump has hired a new chief usher to oversee the White House residence staff, bringing in a high-level employee from the Trump Organization's Washington hotel to fill the slot....

World Colombian ELN rebels release kidnapped Dutch journalists,...

Two Dutch journalists who had been captured by rebel's from Colombia's National Liberation Army, or ELN, were released unharmed.

World German parliament throws out thousands of anti-gay...

Germany's parliament this week approved an annulment of thousands of criminal convictions under the nation's former anti-gay law.

Science NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Views Jupiter’s Bands of Clouds

Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno Spacecraft, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of... The post...

Science Astronomers Uncover Origins of the Sun’s Swirling Spicules

For the first time, a computer simulation shows how solar material burst from the sun’s surface form, helping astronomers understand how these spicules can break... The post Astronomers...

Science Hubble Uses Gravitational Lens to Capture Disk Galaxy

By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive,...

Science What It’s Like to Be an Ant - Facts So Romantic

The idiosyncrasies of our social and cultural lives significantly influences our conscious and unconscious responses to the smells of others and our behaviors toward them. Photograph by Gayil...

Science European Space Agency to Develop Gravitational Wave Space...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for its third large-class mission in the agency’s Cosmic Vision science program.... The post...

Science Astronomers Discover Dead Disk Galaxy, Challenges...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making... The post...

Technology Setting Up Your PSVR: A Step-By-Step Guide

The PlayStation VR is the easiest of the three major VR systems to setup, but it's not quite as simple as plugging in a console. Follow along as we walk you through the process.

Technology New Apple Park Drone Video Shows Off Steve Jobs Theater...

Drone videographer Duncan Sinfield has posted a new video on his YouTube channel today, giving viewers a fresh look at Apple Park as a small number of employees begin settling into the campus and...

Technology Spice Up Your Shop with a VW Pickup Wall Decoration

Seeing a half car is always a disconcerting experience. Especially when that half car is about 14 feet up in the air. [PanasonicModelRC6015] — We’ll call him [RC6015] for short —...

Technology Heathkit’s New RF Meter: Who is it for?

Electronic hackers and ham radio operators of a certain age have a soft spot for the Heathkit brand. Maybe that’s why we had a rush of nostalgia when we saw the Heathkit site had a new...

Technology EV3DEV Lego Linux Updated

The ev3dev Linux distribution got an update this month. The distribution targets the Lego EV3 which is a CPU Lego provides to drive their Mindstorm robots. The new release includes the most...

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Green Virginia residents vow to fight on after natural gas...

Anti-pipeline activists hope to change the mind of Democratic candidate for governor. A “No Pipeline” sign is posted next to a property line marker only a few feet from the center line of the...

Green Rick Perry loses his cool when confronted by Sen. Franken...

When told “humans are entirely the cause” of recent warming, Perry said angrily, “I don’t buy it.” Energy Sec. Rick Perry. CREDIT: AP/Andy Wong, File After a week full of misleading and...

Green Trump’s Interior Secretary defends his plan to cut at...

Zinke has also begun an unprecedented shake-up of senior career officials. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke talks with reporters at the Katahdin Woods And Waters National Monument near...

Green Trump can’t decide whether the Paris agreement is binding

President flip-flops on whether climate agreement is binding. President Donald Trump told a crowd at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 21, 2017, that he kept his promise...

Green Trump bashes wind energy in a state that gets a third of...

It’s like going to Georgia and talking about how peaches are terrible. CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump held a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where...

Green New Board Game Inspires People To Build A Movement &...

In times like these, we need as many tools and games that inspire, educate, and motivate as possible, because there are a metric buttload boatload of issues that we need to move forward on,...

Politics 9 questions with Dominique Dawes

The gold medalist on inspirations and motherhood This week, Dominique Dawes — 10 year member of the U.S. gymnastics team, an Olympic gold medal winner, and advocate for the National...

Politics Senate GOP expected to add new penalties for the...

Senate Republicans are expected to revise their health bill early next week, adding in a provision that could lock Americans out of the individual market for six months if they fail to...

Politics It’s time to revisit Children of Men, whose near-future...

One of the best of its genre, the movie has lessons for us in tumultuous times. Every weekend, we pick a movie you can stream that dovetails with current events. Old, new, blockbuster,...

Politics Military to seek another delay in opening doors to trans...

The military was supposed to be ready for transgender recruits next week, but they're trying to push that deadline back.

Politics Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch

Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who so often determines the outcome of the most controversial Supreme Court cases, is himself the center of brewing speculation.

Politics Trump's previous promises on health care

President Donald Trump has made some grand promises on health care.

Religion Catholic Bishop: Gay Couples Can’t Get Funeral Rites or...

A Catholic bishop in Illinois decreed that Holy Communion and funeral rites should be denied to same-sex couples who don’t show “some signs of repentance.”

Religion Is There a Doctor at This Anti-Vaccination Rally?

Given how many people at anti-vaccination rallies think they're medical experts, you'd assume you'd find a lot of doctors there, right...?

Religion I Didn’t Realize Communion Was Just Phase One

Who knew the body and blood of Christ were just the starting points for a much longer con?

Religion Maajid Nawaz is Suing the SPLC for Calling Him an...

Maajid Nawaz, a former Islamist who is now working to reform the faith, will sue the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation for putting him on a list of "anti-Muslim extremists."He made the...

Religion Dave Daubenmire to Christians: Get Angrier or “Your...

Everyone's at peak angry right now.But Christian activist Dave Daubenmire wants Christians to get even angrier. Or else their grandchildren will get it. (And by it, he means The Gay.)

Religion Pence Calls Trump “Unwavering Ally” of Anti-LGBT Group...

Vice President Mike Pence said today that Donald Trump is an “unwavering ally” of Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian ministry that has been long been considered one of the most...