Lunar eclipse goes out with a bang
Image copyright NASA Image caption Viewers were treated to a rare blood moon during the event A partial lunar eclipse came to a close for the lucky few living in Europe, Africa and Australia…
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Vice President Joe Biden recalls turning the tide on LGBTQ rights in the ’70s
Vice President Joe Biden spoke today in Indianapolis, where several LGBTQ groups and others are commemorating the 52nd anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Adopting a language…
Iranian president: Video of supporter beating woman is a ‘cowardly attack’
Written by Staff Writer (CNN) — Earlier this week, a video of a supporter of Iran’s controversial president hitting a woman named Minhaz Bahar Rasouli after she complained that Rouhani is not putting the…
Japan, South Korea and US must be united, says US Pacific Command chief
Image copyright AFP Image caption Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer (L) and Pacific Command Commander Admiral Scott Swift (R) review US Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets at Hunter Field in Hawaii…
Saudi coalition fights with Houthis in Yemen’s major gas-producing region
The Mideast has already felt a heavy blow this year as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies launch a bombing campaign against Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen, following the Houthis’ takeover…
Beth Ford: A water-balloon playground that changed my life forever
Beth Ford had a job in the real estate industry when, in 1985, a friend who worked for a community development group asked for her help in a project that would affect all of…
New York City residents are pleading with a historic gas station to tear down its haunted boiler room and make money.
If any location screams “budget-conscious,” it’s this historic gas station just two blocks from City Hall. Built in 1888 for Gay Ray-Lien, the first woman to run a full-service gas station in New York…
Being part of a shared house allowed me to live a more balanced life
Maybe it’s because our first apartment had to be a garden apartment on the same floor, to keep our pricey family out, or maybe it’s because our parents needed an after-hours babysitter so we…
‘Holy grail’ of astrophysics: scientists propose world’s biggest telescope
Chilean astronomers are proposing to search for alien life and evidence of dark energy in what could be the “holy grail” of astrophysics. The Las Campanas Observatory in the desert north of Santiago, is…
The Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘Refrigerator’ statue heads to North Dakota
Written by Emily Burton, CNN Completed in 1990 and now docked in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s marble-hued, bronze-plated likeness can still be found perched on a…