The head of the U.S. personnel office, Katherine Archuleta, resigned in the wake of a pair of massive data hacks said to affect 25 million people, far more than had been acknowledged before. The day before, she was apparently focused on “sexual identity” issues.
Investigators are probing whether anthrax played a role in the mysterious deaths of more than a dozen bison at an American Indian reservation in Montana. At least one other state and Canada have also reported cases.
This is the moment a couple encountered with a huge pod of humpback whales while kayaking in Alaska.
Over the past 15 years, America’s fortunes have changed with dizzying speed.
District of Columbia council members voiced their support this week for a new law that would allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles – and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out leading to frigid temperatures.
Leaders of the largest association of psychologists in the country reportedly collaborated with Pentagon and CIA officials to weaken the group’s guidelines, allowing psychologists to take part in and cover up their involvement in coercive interrogation tactics after the 9/11 attacks.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services did not implement auditor recommendations to protect personal information at this website. They’re probably next on the hackers’ list.
More than two dozen Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the words “husband” and “wife” from federal law. Given the direction this country is headed, the proposal will undoubtedly become law in the near future.
A growing number of teens and young adults are being prescribed antipsychotics, a new study suggests.