At the Greater St. Mark's Family church in Ferguson, Missouri, the town where an unarmed Michael Brown was shot last week, a small crowd of about 50 heard State Attorney General Chris Koster apologize.
Scrabble is the only board game I still play. Not to brag, but the fact is, I usually win. Until, this week when my daughter beat me by two points. It was quite a shock.
Three years ago, British photographer David Slater was on a guided tour of an Indonesian forest when he experienced what I assume is every Indonesian tourists dream: a close encounter with a crested black macaque.
In recent years every fights between Israel and the Palestinians peters out in a could of confusion, with both sides claiming victory. The deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset says this fight should end differently.
As you know, climate change is here. There is some debate perhaps over whether it is man-made or not, but it's pretty clear things are changing. University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Professor Cliff Mass has been looking at what will happen to different areas as we move into the next century and he says there will be some winners and there will be some losers.
It's something you need to think about because according to psychologist Christine Harris at the University of California, San Diego, "Dogs tend to show jealous like behavior when their owner pays attention and affection to another dog-like being."
Two federal courts have just issued two opposite rulings on Obamacare. Depending on which one stands, about 7 million working class Americans will either keep or lose their health insurance.
United States intelligence now has persuasive evidence that the doomed Malaysian Air jet was shot down by Ukrainian separatists using weapons provided by Russia.
It's like our gang problem, isn't it? As long as the gangs kill each other, we unfortunately, tend to tolerate a certain level of violence. But when the bullets stray into the nice neighborhoods, then it becomes everybody's business.
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