* Women who stood shoulder to shoulder with men during the 2011 Tahrir Square protests...found their position in society undermined almost immediately. * Browse the components of the federal budget since 1965. * One of the largest farms in the U.S. converts livestock manure into natural gas to power its facilities
* China's mysterious duck, pig, and human deaths could point to a new pandemic on the horizon. * Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters. * A trans writer reports from both sides of the male
* A big-data analysis of white supremacists shows Republicans need to do more to counter extremist views in the U.S. * How Muslims suffer under NYPD profiling. * EPA to propose cutting sulphur content in gasoline to improve the effectiveness of catalytic converters. * Dried whiskey residue that resembles celestial bodies * For
* Kim Jong Un approves plan to ready rockets to hit U.S. targets; Pentagon urges North Korea to "dial the temperature down." * Researchers say the French have been unhappy for decades, trained early to acquire “multidimensional dissatisfaction and depressiveness.” * British princess sister Pippa Middleton says the secret of
* Google Street View locates a ghost town in Fukushima's evacuation zone. * Historically religious town allows widows to celebrate "Holi"—India's festival of color—for the first time. * Richard III's descendants claim breach of rights, challenge the planned reburial in York Minster. * Kubrick&
* Annual military drill sends American B-2 Spirit bombers over South Korea amid "heightened tension on the Korean Peninsula." * Illustrated guide to American-North Korean relations since the cold war. * Bill and Melinda Gates say the world needs a better condom "that significantly preserves or enhances pleasure,
* Crime plummets in Juarez—perhaps one cartel won over the other, maybe there's fewer young men to kill, or it could be better policing. * The trouble with being a snitch. * Brazilian doctor charged with killing seven patients now being investigated in nearly 300 other deaths. * The maker of
* Justices say it could be too early to consider same-sex marriage, and may dismiss the case to allow states to continue experimenting. * According to Tony Kushner's prophecy, capitalism can absorb equal rights for gays, but still encourage many horrible things. * North Korea turns volume of missile systems—
* If I could snap my finger and get rid of all the guns, I would. I think they're evil. ... People are making money off them, and people are dying. * North Korea says missiles are targeting Hawaii, Guam, and the mainland U.S.—more of a message to its
* Ellen DeGeneres's career viewed as litmus test for understanding America's progress on gay rights since 1986. * Arizona store won't sell Mark Kelly an assault weapon after learning he didn't intend to use it. * More than 3,000 people killed by guns in
