The Red Planet has been in the news a lot recently, with the one-two punch of a groundbreaking scientific discovery of water and a big-budget Hollywood movie starring Matt Damon.
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“The Martian” blasted off with a massive $55 million this weekend, nearly surpassing another space-based adventure, “Gravity,” as the highest-grossing October debut in history.
Would you rather be a rock star in the era of a mature city or a mature record industry? It wasn’t a choice for either the band Slaughter or Imagine Dragons.
The Army issued a service-wide breastfeeding policy this week, making it the last military branch to implement guidelines for supporting nursing service members.
An airplane involved in the search located a life ring from the El Faro about 75 miles northeast of the ship’s last known position, the Coast Guard said in a press release. A Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter recovered the life ring and confirmed it belonged to the missing ship.
The family of the Oregon college massacre suspect said they shocked and deeply saddened by the slaughter that left 10 dead including the gunman, according to a brief statement released on their behalf on Saturday by Oregon state police.
Cody Saintgnue, a Los Angeles actor and model, came to Las Vegas last year to celebrate his 21st birthday.
An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents.
The collapse of a hillside onto a town on the edge of Guatemala City killed at least 25 people and left hundreds missing on Friday, as rescue crews searched for survivors in homes buried by dirt and sludge.
A heavily armed gunman who shot to death an English professor and eight others in an Oregon community college classroom was identified on Friday as a student in the class who previously had been turned away from a private firearms training academy.
This Davenport West student has grown up coping with a brain injury and autism, and through it all he has learned to set his own pace.
Space travel + ’70s-era radio hits = awesomeness.
The U.S. Coast Guard also said one of its helicopter crews had rescued 12 mariners who abandoned their sinking 212-foot (64.6 m) cargo ship after it was beset by heavy weather from Joaquin on Thursday evening off the northwest coast of Haiti.
President Barack Obama said he would not turn the Syrian civil war into a “proxy war” between the United States and Russia as the two countries launch air strikes on different opponents of President Bashar Al-Assad’s government.
President Barack Obama once again called for more gun laws on Friday, pleading for increased regulation after a deadly mass shooting on an Oregon college campus.
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