* Keystone XL pipeline company requests a delay for its government review—Obama still plans to veto anyway. * Antarctica is gaining more ice than it's losing; the bad news is there's a sea-level rise, and now we don't know why. * "It's
* Russian and Egyptian officials dispute IS's claim it brought down the airliner that crashed Saturday. * Proposed bill would bar prosecutors from reading emails between prisoners and their lawyers. * Last year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives inspected 7% of licensed gun stores. * The next time you
If you had to choose between the life of a loved one or the survival of a dozen other people, would you be capable of a rational decision?
* One-child policy raised the cost of raising a kid, making it too expensive for most families to have more than one. * To fight climate change, billionaires should buy up coal and never mine it. * "Elon Musk can keep on making $100,000 cars, but he should make some
* Weeks before the raid on Osama bin Laden, White House lawyers created legal rationales for every possible outcome. * Today marks 18,967 days since a US president died in office—a new record. * DNA testing shows two-thirds of "wild-caught" restaurant salmon is actually farmed. * Federal funding
Environmentalists are increasingly hugging people, not trees. Can solving climate change and achieving “climate justice” become the same thing?
* Deposing Saddam caused brutally destabilizing aftershocks. * Data breaches motivating corporations to hand over more and more responsibility—and sensitive information—to the feds. * George Washington's wealth was almost Trumpish. * US students' math scores fall—Common Core may be why, since it doesn't teach some of
* If last night's debt ceiling deal happens, it's good for Obama's legacy, Ryan's cotillion, and Boehner's barn. * South Carolina campus cop tosses desk-bound student to the floor. * A lack of sleep can undermine all areas of health—and blacks
At the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center eye clinic, patients were going blind waiting for treatment. “Sometimes when you work in chaos, you don’t know how to get out of it,” says H-UCLA Chief Improvement Officer Susan Black. The system had to change, and a partnership with Toyota showed
A Manhattan wedding, a cancer scan, and the largest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
