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In an encouraging sign, the Los Angeles Superior Court has announced that it will reopen tomorrow for urgent matters. 36 courthouses will open, including some that do not do criminal law. It had been...

US President Donald J. Trump will attend a fundraiser dinner in Beverly Hills Tuesday evening. Seats range from $1000 for Bronze, to $100,000 and up. On Wednesday morning, he will seek a photo...

Chinese scientists have conducted an experiment that suggests that we may eventually be able to use lunar land space to provide food for either inter-planetary travelers or Earth dwellers. Using a con...

80-year-old disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, who has been found guilty of aggravated indecent assault, has been quietly selling off millions of dollars' worth of Los Angeles properties accumulated...

While the United States increasingly puts science on the back burner, the United Arab Emirates is forging ahead with an ambitious program meant to increase knowledge and economic opportunities for...

The American Hospital Association is not too happy with the GOP's proposed replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare). The American Health Care Act (AHCA) was first presented to the...

More than 120 investors have written a statement to banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline advising them to promote a new route: "We call on the banks to address or support the Tribe's request for...

Donald Trump has decided that he wants to "get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment." What does that mean for America? The Johnson Amendment, passed in 1954, is a tax code provision that...

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One of the most beloved actresses of the 20th c. died on Wednesday at age 80, reports her longtime representative Mara Buxbaum. Moore is best remembered for her ground-breaking TV series The Mary...

Last Thursday, while the media worried about whether a Springsteen tribute band might play for Trump's inauguration, The Boss, himself, slipped into the White House to give a small concert in honor of...

President Obama penned an emotional letter to the public, published Thursday, in which he thanks us for allowing him to serve as our president, and promises to be with us as American moves into the...

After nearly three years, the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an official end. The plane disappeared over the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014, carrying 12 crew...

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have created a battery on a single sheet of paper that is powered by the aspiration of bacteria. The design could revolutionize the...

Former Solo Cup Co. President and Chief Executive Robert Hulseman has died at the age of 84. Hulseman passed away at his home in Northfield, Illinois on December 21. The cause of death has not been re...

Official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of December 25, 2016, have been announced, and Disney's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took in almost twice as much as the next closest...

Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm to deliver energy to the American power grid, began generating electricity in commercial operation on December 12. The project was developed by...

On Sunday afternoon, the Secretary of the Army contacted tribal leaders at the protest site to inform them that the Dakota Access Pipeline will NOT proceed according to its current plan. "We will not...

Just minutes after blast-off, the unmanned Progress 65 cargo ship crashed on December 1, along with the 700 pounds of supplies it carried. The communication was lost only 383 seconds after it had...

In yet another unsupervised early morning tweet, Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the government was shelling out $4B for a new Air Force One from Boeing: "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Forc...

Several well-known motor companies are determined to make electric car use easier for consumers. BMW, Ford Motor Company, Daimler AG, and Volkswagen Group with Audi and Porsche are among the...

Software giant Oracle Corporation has purchased a 316,000 square-foot property on Colorado for $368 million. At around $1,165/square foot, the large office complex is one of the priciest transactions...

Florence Henderson, one of America's most beloved television moms, has died with heart failure at age 82. Her manager, Kayla Pressman, says Henderson had not been sick, and her death came as a great...

Since last Tuesday's shocking defeat of the popularly chosen presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by the electorally chosen Donald Trump, thousands of protestors have poured into the streets in major...

For months now rational Americans have been both bewildered and amused that the pigheaded adolescent rebellion of GOP leaders during the Obama administration led to a presidential nominee who is, to...