Last month, “District 9” and “Elysium” director Neill Blomkamp released bunch of concept art from a secret “Alien” project he was developing to his Instagram account. “Was working on this….
www.weather.com: In mid-January, climbers Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell summited Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan right in the middle of an unpredictable time of year for weather, meteorologist for The…
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was ousted from his first chief justice post in 2003 after refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial…
In 1986, Marie Shear wrote: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” Read the whole story at upworthy.com
In the autobiography that inspired the blockbuster film, “American Sniper,” Kyle wrote that his work on Iraqi battlefields earned him the nickname, “Legend.” That’s what those fighting with Kyle called…
Live video on TVs at an airport crisis center were showing coverage of the story when up popped pictures of debris, and a body in the water. Until that moment,…
AirAsia Flight 8501 plunged into the sea on December 28 as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya toward Singapore. It had 162 people on board. Divers resumed their…
Such words could have come straight from the mouth of the King himselfa former major general in the Jordanian army. Queen Rania consoled the grieving wife of the pilot who…
André Brink, a towering South African literary presence for decades whose work in English and Afrikaans fell afoul of apartheid-era censors, died Friday, South African news reports said. He was…
Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice is informing our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is…
“the best thing NBC has done this year,” I wrote. Read the whole story at The Hollywood Reporter
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada struck down on Friday laws banning physician-assisted suicide for patients with “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions. The unanimous decision, which reverses the position…
And then this: “No Weapons Allowed Except Guitars.” It’s tribute to the fact that Guthrie — who wrote “This Land is Your Land” and who basically was Bob Dylan before…
My father, Andrew Jefferson Offutt V, grew up in a log cabin in Taylorsville, Ky. The house had 12-inch-thick walls with gun ports to defend against attackers: first Indians, then…
An ancient tragedy is shining new light on life in the Neolithic Era, as archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a woman who appears to have died with her twins…
Talk about getting the last laugh … An 83-year-old Connecticut woman who died Jan. 27 pre-wrote her own obituary in which she claimed she had died hiking Mt. Kilimanjaro. The…
Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as “the pill,” died…
NEW DELHI — A longtime and prominent loyalist of the Indian National Congress party publicly broke with the party’s president, Sonia Gandhi, and her son, Rahul, on Friday. The loyalist…
The pangolin is now a little safer because of you. Last year, after I wrote about the illegal trade in these artichoke-shaped, scale-covered mammals, CNN Digital readers donated more than…
Yale University has responded to an incident in which a campus police officer held a black male student at gunpoint after thinking the student matched the description of a burglary…
On Monday, Blow wrote about another young black man’s encounter with policehis son, who was allegedly held at gunpoint on the Yale University campus where he’s a student. Blow took…
The remarks were written on Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon’s personal letterhead and dated May 27, 1912six weeks after HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyageand seem to…
“When I think about what they [the Romneys] might go through again, if their father runs a third time, I shudder,” McCain wrote, explaining that her family’s campaign experience was…
The scrolls, which were buried in a Herculaneum library and excavated 260 years ago, are easily damaged or destroyed by unwrapping, so researchers have been unable to read them without…
(RNS) Chris Kyle, often described as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, wrote in his autobiography that he prioritized his life in the following order: God, country, family….
Now that “Foxcatcher” is a five-time Oscar nominee, the subject of the film, Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, has renounced his previous criticisms of the project and director Bennett Miller. “I…
“It is with sadness and mixed emotions that I write to tell you that February will be my last month serving as the Administrator for CMS. I have great pride…
“Whether we are facing lone fanatics or terrorist organisations such as al-Qaeda, Islamic State (Isil) or Boko Haram we will not be cowed by extremists,” the pair wrote. “We will…
President Barack Obama will renew his push for paid sick days and paid family leave for the millions of American workers who don’t have either during a visit to Baltimore…
Ultra-Orthodox Jews traditionally don’t prefer to show images of women because it’s not considered modest. As Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted, political parties that represent the ultra-Orthodox sector ban women from…