In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Recognized for his roles in Jaws, American Graffiti, and Mr. Holland's Opus, Richard Dreyfuss has issued a call to action in our classrooms. Dreyfuss believes civic education is the foundation of public education; yet over the years, it has become more about memorizing facts and dates than understanding context and history.
Thomas will be best remembered for demanding (at a Jewish heritage celebration) that Jews "get the hell out" of their homeland and relocate to Germany and Poland, where not long ago they were butchered by the millions. Maybe they can carve Thomas’ own words at the base of the statue?
The recession was deeper than the government previously thought. The economy's plunge underscores why the unemployment rate surged to 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high.
Rabbits were able to regrow a leg joint using their own stem cells, say scientists exploring the cells' potential to replace artificial joints in human patients.
Researchers, who examined the diets of 1,800 teens, found that “western-style” diets more than doubled the risk of an ADHD diagnosis, compared with a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, even after adjusting for social and family factors.
One of NASA’s six-year-old Mars rovers missed its winter wake-up call, prompting concerns that it may never recover from the frigid cold. During previous winters, Spirit was able to get to a sun-facing slope in Gusev Crater before the deep cold set in, a position that left it able to draw enough power from its solar cells to keep heaters turned on
With the help of British wildlife presenter Nigel Marven a Chinese nursery is leading the fight to safeguard the future of the world's most emblematic animal. The project is considered so sensitive that only a handful of Westerners — all veterinary specialists — have been permitted inside the sound-proofed, softlylit nursery at the giant Panda....
The US Copyright Group has gone after 14,000+ P2P users in court so far this year. But, when it comes to its own websites, do the lawyers have a piracy problem of their own?
A recent study was undertaken by Technorati, in order to help put things in perspective. Consisting largely of a survey, asking bloggers about their demographic information,blogging activity, and profitability, the data yielded some rather interesting findings. Title inspiration provided by Jerry Seinfeld.
A vote by US lawmakers has given PartyGaming and other online bookies cause to hope that America's four-year ban on internet betting could soon be lifted
The X Prize Foundation is known for fueling private space shots...but now it's going green with a $1.4 million contest for oil spill cleanup solutions.
Hardline law enforcement vowed to continue their sweeps of Latino communities but the operations have so far been stymied by the gutted legislation, weather and tweeting activists
The Obama administration has insisted that its blanket moratorium on deepwater drilling is unavoidable to prevent another spill and ensure drilling is safe before it resumes. But scientists and disaster experts investigating the Deepwater Horizon explosion are advocating for better alternatives to the broad ban -- and the administration ought ...
Since many American seniors still believe that the explicit goal of ObamaCare is to kill them all, immediately, the government has hired 84-year-old Andy Griffith to explain all of the Medicare goodies they'll now receive before Obama kills them.
On Sunday, the White House Correspondents' Association will vote on who gets the front-row UPI seat long held by Helen Thomas, and two liberal groups have come out urging the WHCA to vote for NPR instead of Fox.
A south Texas jury sentenced John Allen Rubio to death on Thursday, four days after convicting him of murder for beheading his common law wife's three children in 2003.The jurors had deliberated for about four hours."I'm sorry it all had to come to this," Rubio said in an open court. "I thank the jury for giving me a chance to show what I could.
Major corporations are jumping on BitTorrent to download the gold mine of data contained in the Facebook file containing profile information on more than 170 million users.
Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot, golden pistol.
At 91 years old, the country's oldest mail carrier is finally hanging up his keys after driving more than 1.1 million miles delivering mail in Tennessee. He earned a Million-Mile Safe Driving award for 35 years of accident-free driving.
Weather-obsessed people like pilots and surf bums will now be able to see the latest weather maps on Google Earth. In order to see it, enable the clouds layer, and zoom to the spot that you want to see (or do that in reverse order, it doesn’t matter)
Do you want to become rich beyond your wildest dreams? The question may seem right out of a late-night infomercial — unless you consider the only strategy that may actually help you achieve that: Act poor.
A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request for an expedited hearing on the state's controversial immigration law. Instead, the case has been scheduled for a hearing during the first week in November.
It all depends on whether one equates 'illegal immigrant' with evil-doers or with laborers. Some people look at an impoverished immigrant laborer and immediately think "illegal," with all the stigma that word carries. Others see that same person and think: There goes a worker.
Rap's history is littered with fanciful unions, most of which rarely get beyond the brain-storming stage: pesky little glitches like scheduling conflicts, waning enthusiasm, and mortality, among other things, tend to keep most supergroups from ever becoming reality.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against a number of companies accused of producing unauthorized accessories for iPods and iPads. The company claims the knockoff products are violating its trademarks and infringing on a number of patents.