Dec 11 UPDATE: NASA confirms cooling failure aboard the International Space Station The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member on space shuttle Endeavour on Feb. 19, 2010. UPDATE: 11:29 p.m. EST with the full statement from NASA: Update on Space… Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch Looking back at Bernie Madoff's fraud scheme five years on Five years ago, financier Bernie Madoff was arrested for running an elaborate, global Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of billions of dollars and left many of his thousands of victims with nothing. Madoff is currently serving a 150-year sentence in… Continue watching
Dec 11 Watch News Wrap: Health care enrollment three times higher in November than October News Wrap: Health care enrollment three times higher in November than October… Continue watching
Dec 11 NASA counts down Counting down until midnight when @NASA_Orion test capsule to leave on cross-country trip. Share pix #SpotOrion pic.twitter.com/hLJMiEEdo3— NASA_Langley (@NASA_Langley) December 11, 2013… Continue reading
Dec 11 India's top court re-criminalizes gay sex India celebrates its second annual gay pride parade in Bangalore. Creative commons image via flickr sser nickjohnson India's Supreme Court has banned gay sex by reversing a 2009 Delhi High Court order that decriminalized gay sex, the BBC… Continue reading
Dec 11 Americans say they still love their libraries, even if they're not using them Creative Commons photo via flickr user srharris The local library is considered a vital asset even though you might not use it as much as you might have in the past, according to findings from a new… Continue reading
Dec 11 The 'forgotten' lobotomies on World War II vets Around 2,000 mentally ill veterans were lobotomized in the years during and after World War II, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Continue reading
Dec 11 More than half of the contiguous 48 states covered by snow As of Dec. 11, 2013, 62.1% of Lower 48 states is covered by #snow: http://t.co/d9MTqArran pic.twitter.com/Hj3GGogUBy— NOAA (@NOAA) December 11, 2013 In the aftermath of numerous winter storms and bouts of snow across… Continue reading
Dec 11 HealthCare.gov improves with varying success across states Navigator Nini Hadwen, right, speaks with consumers shopping for health insurance in Miami. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Mary Hualde, a navigator in Utah helping people sign up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act, says HealthCare.gov is… Continue reading
Dec 11 New labs risk DEA raids to test medical marijuana for safety A pot dispensary in Denver, where state regulators are debating testing requirements for medical cannabis. Photo by Randall Benton/Getty Images Pharmaceutical drugs are subject to stringent tests for potency, purity and quality, but what about medical marijuana? While cannabis… Continue reading