Oct 08 President Obama to speak at 2 p.m. EDT At 2 pm ET today, the President will make a statement and take questions from reporters at the White House.— Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) October 8, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 08 School bus drivers walk off job in Boston Photo by Flickr user bigweasel Most of Boston's 33,000 public and private school students scrambled to find alternative transportation on Tuesday as the area's school bus drivers walked off the job, Reuters reports. The drivers, represented by… Continue reading
Oct 08 Argentine President Fernandez recovering from surgery The president of Argentina is out of surgery and recovering, reports the AP. President Cristina Fernandez suffered a subdural haematoma, which is an accumulation of blood in the brain. She is expected to remain in intensive care… Continue reading
Oct 08 New $100 bills are here The look of the 'Benjamins' in your wallet have finally gotten their long-planned makeover. A redesigned $100 bill featuring founding father Benjamin Franklin enters circulation today with new features designed to deter counterfeiters, all after an almost two-year delay. Continue reading
Oct 08 #ACA #website 3rd screen on http://t.co/FdsO8jswn3 updates fr try again after 10am to try again later this morning. pic.twitter.com/eSzMV499wE— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 8, 2013… Continue reading
Oct 08 Diving into the particle that 'won' the Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, the theorists who in 1964 predicted the existence of what is known as the Higgs boson, the particle that gives mass to the… Continue reading
Oct 08 What we're watching Tuesday Good morning! From our coffees to yours, here's what we are watching this a.m. It is day 8 of the government shutdown. The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two cases: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission,… Continue reading
Oct 07 Shutdown puts T. rex's new stomping grounds on hold The near-complete T. rex fossil was due to be moved to Washington before the government shutdown. Photo by Flickr user Greg Goebel A near-complete T. Rex fossil that was due to make Washington's Smithsonian National Museum of… Continue reading
Oct 07 Iowa Governor's SUV fleet now 'on the grid' Law enforcement officials in Iowa will no longer be kept in the dark when they scan license plates for Gov. Terry Branstand's official vehicle and 13 others in his security detail fleet. Before, the license plate information was not… Continue reading
Oct 07 Home built for healing in competition at Dept. of Energy Solar Decathlon EmbedVideo(7645); For these future architects and engineers, designing a house for this year's Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition came with a mission: to give back and to heal. More than 100 Washington, D.C., college students built… Continue reading