Cole Hill
If we stand idly by and pretend there is no need for a serious discussion about tougher gun control restrictions in the U.S., we have failed the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. and their families, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) argued Tuesday.
For the first time in its brief history, Virgin America ranked as the most satisfactory airline overall in the U.S., according to the results of the 2013 Airline Quality Rating (AQR) report.
North Korea continued to stoke already tense international relations Tuesday, warning foreigners staying in the South to evacuate soon before its impending nuclear war with Seoul begins.
It just took a matter of seconds for a 4-year-old boy to pick up a loaded handgun Saturday night, but by the time anyone realized what was happening, it was already too late. The toddler aimed the firearm at a Tennessee deputy's wife and fatally shot her in what police are calling a "tragic accident."
Is Jodi Arias' domestic abuse defense unraveling before our eyes? While an expert witness for the defendant had claimed she was a victim of low self-esteem, the psychotherapist admitted Arias wrote a manifesto in jail and signed copies in preparation for becoming famous.
It might sound like the plot to "Starship Troopers," or a Michael Bay movie, but science fiction is about to become reality. NASA's ambitious mission to snag an asteroid and bring it into near-Earth orbit for exploration will soon be confirmed for launch in 2019, a senator said Friday.
Since Jodi Arias' trial first began, we've heard all too much about the defendant from her nearly endless testimony to expert witnesses. But in a recently surfaced interrogation room video, we finally hear what Arias' parents have to say, and it doesn't help her case: they admit they think she "has mental problems."
Isolated and shrouded in darkness, we're often reminded that humans know more about space than we do the deepest regions of the oceans here on Earth. The icy depths hide a wealth of bizarre, almost inexplicable creatures from the giant squid to zombie worms feasting on whale carcasses, but one newly discovered life form has scientists truly stumped: a scaleless fish with transparent blood.
Wires? Where we're going we don't need wires. A bizarre video from 1938 appearing to show a woman talking a on a cellphone has gone viral, with some speculating the only true explanation is time travel.
There is no question: the morning after pill should be available over the counter to women of all ages, said a federal judge in Brooklyn in a direct order to the Food and Drug Administration.
The gun store that reportedly sold the weapons used in the shooting in Newtown, Conn. at Sandy Hook Elementary School has had its firearms license permanently revoked by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, officials from the agency confirmed.
Has the National Football League finally reached its tipping point in accepting homosexual athletes in and out of the locker room? If a former Baltimore Ravens linebacker is to be believed, we may soon find out, with four current NFL players possibly coming out in the near future.
Could the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. last summer have been stopped if police had acted on a tip received prior to the massacre that the alleged killer was "homicidal"? According to numerous recently unsealed court documents in the trial of James Holmes, the accused shooter's psychiatrist warned police he might pose a threat to others just weeks before the tragedy.
As North Korea loaded two of the country's mobile missile launchers and positioned them to fire off the east coast Thursday, Pyonyang warned several foreign embassies to evacuate Pyongyang within the next five days.
For anyone bored by the redundant questioning of the expert witness for Jodi Arias' defense team, prosecutor Juan Martinez provided a thundering wake-up call Thursday, attacking the psychotherapist's ability to diagnose domestic abuse by saying she classified Snow White as a battered woman in the past, while almost seething with anger.
