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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, June 9, 2015

June 9, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Fox News, Free the Weed, Google, Hacking, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Les Paul, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, RobotsHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to guitarist and innovator Les Paul. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer‘s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson‘s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism
has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You’ve
done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you
left no sense of decency?”
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London’s Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1973 – In horseracing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

As he nears a 2016 bid, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal
hits political bottom

Huckabee’s Answer to
Federal Records Hack:
Let’s ‘Hack China Back’

Don’t Worry, Mike Huckabee Is Still Proudly Endorsed by the Duggars

Lindsey Graham Calls Out Fellow Republican
Candidates Over Climate Change Views

Bush to call for closer economic, security ties with Europe

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

McKinney, Texas, and the Racial
History of American Swimming Pools

What role did race play in how
police handled Texas pool party chaos?

Activists Want Black Host Who Blamed
Teens For McKinney Pool Fight FIRED

‘Dinnertimin” and ‘No Tipping’: How Advertisers
Targeted Black Consumers in the 1970s

In an attempt to reach African American customers, many U.S. businesses
began integrating their commercials—often by relying on fraught stereotypes.

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, June 7, 2015

June 7, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Apple, Cops Gone Wild, Dean Martin, facebook, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Hacking, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, YahooHeadly Westerfield

Welcome back, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Dean Martin. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.

1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.

1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.

1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.

1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.

1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.

1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.

1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

Conservative presidential hopeful
Marco Rubio’s religion of many colors

Conservatives Furious That Clinton Thinks Black People Should Be Able To Vote

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Texas man guns down 19-year-old woman
during argument over beer pong rules

FREE THE WEED!!!

Julian Marley, Bob Marley’s son, set to release single calling for the legalisation of marijuana

Miami-Dade police want option
to fine, not arrest, pot smokers

Newcomers to Costilla County lured by legal marijuana, cheap land

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Apple expected to turn up the music dial

After lying and covering up, Facebook
finally changes rules for inmates’ pages

Facebook Expands Its Efforts to
Connect With Emerging Audiences

Facebook Messenger Will Finally Stop Telling People Where You Are

I Handed Over My Facebook Password to
an Indonesian Hacker. Now We’re Friends.

Yahoo to Retire Maps and Pipes as It Narrows Its Focus

HACK ATTACKS:

Chinese Hackers Snare
Data From Millions
of Federal Workers

A massive data breach affects more than 1
percent of the American population—and
it’s precisely those whose information a
foreign government would most want to have.

Why Did China Hack
Federal Employees’ Data?

Huge Federal Data Breach a Prelude
to Even More Dangerous Exploits

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Tells Wife to Sue if
Something Happens to Him,
He’s then “Accidentally”
Killed by Fellow Cop

Cop Says Killing Black People Is Okay Because
“It’s Not Against The Law To Put An Animal Down”

Craig Ruthowsky, Hamilton cop, arrested during Project Pharaoh gang raids

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Friday Fox Follies
Dysfunctional Duggar Defense

Duggar daughters defend their
brother’s ‘inappropriate touching’
on Fox: ‘It was very mild’

Fox News’ Steve Doocy attacks Hillary by
literally reading RNC talking point on air

Even Fox’s Dr. Keith Ablow Thinks the Duggars Blew It

IN INNER SPACE:

Missing link between brain
and immune system found

What to say — and what not to say —
on a first date, according to science

Ancient gold trade
route discovered

Seven toxic mini-frog species discovered in mountain cloud forests

New species of dinosaur, the regaliceratops, discovered in Canada

IN OUTER SPACE:

Mathematics: The Beautiful
Language of the Universe

Astronomers discover a young
solar system around a nearby star

Hubble research shows Pluto’s moons in continuous chaos

Italian astronaut on space station sets
new mission duration record by a woman

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, June 4, 2015

June 4, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Fox News, Freddy Fender, Free the Weed, Google, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Baldemar Garza Huerta, who made his fame under the name Freddy Fender. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.

1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

1784 – Élisabeth Thible
becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her
flight covers 4 kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres
altitude (estimated).

1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1812 – Following Louisiana‘s admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.

1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.

1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.

1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.

1919 – Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.

1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry to announce 2016 presidential bid Thursday: adviser

5 Things You Should Know About Rick Perry

A ‘humbler’ Rick Perry hopes 2016 bid goes better than first

Is Jeb Bush No Longer The GOP Front Runner For 2016?

Chris Christie at the bat: New Jersey Gov. shows
gutsy moves at all-star NYPD fundraiser, earns MVP

LGBT NEWS:

‘Therapists’ Called Clients ‘Fags,’ Made
Them Strip in Gay Conversion Therapy

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

Creationist Ken Ham
picks fight with NASA’s
John Glenn: ‘You cannot turn
an amoeba into an astronaut’

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

‘It Is Climate Change’: India’s Heat Wave
Now The 5th Deadliest In World History

The Cultural and Geopolitical
Impacts of Climate Change

Scientists Investigate Vanishing Glacial Lakes

Adapting to climate change is going to be a lot messier than we think

Climate change: California Senate approves
legislation to combat global warming

Why Rick Santorum doesn’t want Pope
Francis talking about climate change

Well, Well, Well, Look Who Just
Endorsed a Bold Fix For Climate Change

FREE THE WEED!!!

IRS Approves First Church Of Cannabis. What’s Next For Cannabis?

House Votes In Favor Of
Medical Marijuana Protections

Minnesota doctors reluctant to sign off on medical marijuana

Marijuana Legalization 2015: Should America Regulate Pot Just Like Alcohol?

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Google Photos Arrive On
Desktop With Revamped Uploader

If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first

How Facebook’s video-traffic explosion
is shaking up the advertising world

No tie, no suit, and Facebook in office: How Infosys is becoming cool

Apple’s Success With IPhones in China Fuels Local Appetite for Apps

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FBI behind mysterious
surveillance aircraft
over US cities

US pushing local cops to
stay mum on surveillance

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox host repelled by kindergarten
diversity training because of
‘transsexuals’ and ‘stuff that’s gross’

Andrea Tantaros defends body
shaming: Women ‘with a functioning
brain’ work on their bikini bods daily

IN INNER SPACE:

US regulators to discuss ‘female Viagra’

Screening reduces risk of
breast cancer death by 40%

Chimps are capable of cooking: Research

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA finds Pluto’s moons
tumbling in absolute chaos

All Systems Go for NASA’s Flying
Saucer: Watch the Launch Online

‘Suit Up’: NASA Celebrates 50th
Anniversary of First U.S. Spacewalk

5 ways the world’s most controversial
telescope could revolutionize astronomy

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, June 2, 2015

June 2, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Charlie Watts, Climate Change, facebook, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Robots, The Rolling Stones, WindowsHeadly Westerfield

Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs Charlie Watts, beat-keeper for The Rolling Stones. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He was executed four years later.
2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE:

Lindsey Graham Announces
His 2016 Presidential Run

The more the merrier:
Democratic candidates for 2016

Latinos Are Watching 2016 Candidates’
Stances On Immigration, Says Organizer

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

Why U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election

Busy Month Criss-Crossing Country for NJ Gov. Chris Christie

Major 2016 GOP presidential candidates to
gather at Economic Growth Summit in Orlando

LGBT NEWS:

Caitlyn Jenner Is “a
Hero”: LGBT Activist

LGBT people suffer widespread violent
abuse, discrimination: new UN report

Catholic couple puts faith in action for LGBT Youth

Adidas Redesigns Its Signature Sneakers To Celebrate LGBT Pride: PHOTOS

Gap Partners With GLAAD, Sharing LGBT Employees’
Stories For ‘Got Your Back’ Pride Month Campaign

SCOTUS WATCH:

Facebook rants are not
criminal, Supreme Court
says in narrow ruling

The Limits of Religious-Freedom Protections
The Supreme Court rules that a woman should not have been
denied a job over her head scarf, but a Muslim chaplain says
her hijab made her a target of discrimination on an airline flight.

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Texas floods: Enough rain fell in
May to cover entire state 8 inches deep

Climate Model Suggests Everest
Glaciers Could Nearly Disappear

2,000 ‘heat wave deaths’: Only a third confirmed in Andhra Pradesh

This has been a month of extreme weather around the world

FREE THE WEED!!!

WSU researchers see link between
hunter-gatherer cannabis use, fewer parasites

Medical Marijuana Feeds Familiar Hopes
of Renewal Around New York State

Lawmakers brace for
marijuana vote-a-rama

Legal Marijuana Dealers — And The
Government — Need Bankers And Lawyers

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook targeted by
‘real name’ policy protest

Millennials go to Facebook for political
news more than anywhere else

Baby Boomers are still getting political news
from local TV, according to a new Pew survey

New Facebook Feature Shows Actual Respect for Your Privacy

Lego asked game developers to make
dong-detection software for its MMO game

Windows 10 Is Available July 29

Microsoft explains what you’ll lose by upgrading to Windows 10

OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS:

Researchers Developing Robots That
Can ‘Interact With People Naturally’

Amazon’s robot competition shows why
human warehouse jobs are safe for now

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox host repelled by kindergarten
diversity training because of
‘transsexuals’ and ‘stuff that’s gross’

Fox psychoanalyzes Joe Biden after son’s death with psychiatrist who accused VP of being a drunk

IN INNER SPACE:

Medicine’s Hidden Roots
in an Ancient Manuscript

Researchers Link Feelings Of
Disgust And Ethical Behavior

Sawfish have Virgin Birth

Breast milk appears to cut risk of leukaemia

The Tampon: A History

IN OUTER SPACE:

Earth-sized planets all have
relatively circular orbits, study finds

NASA spacecraft captures
sharpest images yet of Ceres

Astronaut shares stunning pictures of Earth
taken from the International Space Station

Watch NASA’s documentary about its 50 years of spacewalks on YouTube

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, May 31, 2015

May 31, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Bigots, Cassinni, Chrome, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Fox News, Free the Weed, Google, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Racism, Religion, Saturn, Twitter, Vickie Sue RobinsonHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Disco Diva Vickie Sue Robinson. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.

1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.

1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.

1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.

1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.

1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.

1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.

1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid“, is released.

1961 – The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.

1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.

2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

The 2016 U.S. Presidential
Race: A Cheat Sheet

Jeb Bush says Rand Paul ‘wrong’
on ending surveillance laws

Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley to seek Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination

Analysis: Martin O’Malley Is Hillary Clinton’s
Strongest Rival, But He’s Still Behind Her

Could Hillary Clinton Be the Champion
Campaign-Finance Reform Needs?

LGBT NEWS:

Key West installs permanent
rainbow crosswalks

Pastor Who Refused To Reject LGBT Community Shot In Anti-Gay Hate Crime

Drag queens to hold protest at
Facebook HQ over ‘real name’ bans

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-BIGOTED SOCIETY:

Muslim cleric denied unopened
soda on United flight because she
could ‘use it as a weapon on the plane’

Head of Phoenix Islamic Center: Rally Using First Amendment as ‘Cover for Racism’

Organizer of Phoenix Anti-Islam Rally Going
Into Hiding, Says ‘Tyranny Is in America’

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Alaska sets new record for earliest day with temperatures in the 90s

Texas & Alaska Floods: El Nino & Hot Oceans Start a Year of Hellish Weather. It Will Get Worse.

These seven climate science projects could save the world

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

Longest US Catholic church
vigil may be coming to end

Saskatchewan church minister asks
forgiveness from LGBT community

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Gun Fanatic Larry Pratt: Obama Is Like
Hitler And Wants Take Away Our Guns

Town residents mark National
Gun Violence Awareness Day

FREE THE WEED!!!

Jury Sends Message to Cops, Go Find REAL CRIMINALS, Acquits Man on Felony Pot Charges

Here’s The Real
Difference Between
Sativa & Indica Pot Strains

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Twitter trolls, your days are numbered: The Department of Justice is finally taking online harassment like #Gamergate seriously

This creepy Chrome extension lets
you stalk Facebook Messenger
users with stunning accuracy

Google Photos offers unlimited, free
photo and video storage plus much more

Google Intensifies Focus on Its Cardboard Virtual Reality Device

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Photo Raises Doubts About Police
Shooting of Jermaine McBean

NYPD Cops Shamelessly Talk About How a Murdered 14-Year-Old ‘Deserved To Die’

Man Calls Suicide Line, Police Kill Him

Cop Caught On Video Telling Black Teen ‘If You
Fuck With Me, I’m Going To Break Your Legs’

2 Hialeah police dogs found dead in officer’s vehicle

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Megyn Kelly Gets Exclusive Interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

Geraldo Gets Twitter Blowback for Calling Hastert a ‘Victim’

FNC to Lindsay
Here’s Our Defense:
Cokehead Seems to Fit…

Fox News Channel Debuts THE GREG GUTFELD SHOW Tonight

Fox & Frenzy – Friday Fox Follies

IN INNER SPACE:

Harvard Scientists Say That There
May Be An Ancient Earth Inside Earth

Saigas, an Endangered Antelope,
Dying of Mystery Disease

Killer Fungus That’s Devastating
Bats May Have Met Its Match

Out of Africa: How early humans first got to Europe

Evidence of earliest murder comes to light

Scientists concerned over sudden death of rare
antelope due to Mystery Disease in Kazakhstan

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA’s Cassinni spacecraft
scheduled for “final flyby”
above Saturn’s Hyperion
on Sunday May 31st

Sounds of Science: NASA Satellites Sing at World Science Festival

Four inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame

NASA orders first Commercial Crew mission from Boeing

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, May 19, 2015

May 19, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Pete Townshend, Religion, Republicans, The Who, TwitterHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Pete Townshend, of The Who. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona‘s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).

1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.

1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.

1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.

1780 – New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.

1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.

1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.

1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1911 – Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.

1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.

1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.

1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe‘s rendition of “Happy Birthday“.

1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.

1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

Here’s Why We Can’t Predict 2016
Based On Past Presidential Elections

The dirty little secret of 2016 announcements

2016 Presidential Election: The Candidates on Climate Change

Chris Christie: Foreign policy hawk?

Scott Walker pushes candidate boundaries,
from 2012 recall to 2016 presidential election

US Presidential Elections 2016 : Bobby Jindal to run for White House

US “Original Sin” and the 2016 Presidential Election

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

Religion Isn’t Dead Yet

The end of religion as we know it: Why
churches can no longer hide the truth

10 Interesting Facts
About Evangelicals
From Pew’s Religion Report

Why religion will dominate the 21st century

Losing their religion: the hidden crisis
of faith among Britain’s young Muslims

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

The GOP Is Dying Off. Literally.

McConnell fundraiser: Wives owe their husbands sex even if they’re not in the mood

Texas GOP Comes Up With New Ways To Make It Nearly Impossible To Have An Abortion

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Good 3-Year-Old With A Gun Shoots 1-Year-Old Sister In The Face Outside Florida Day Care

Sunday Biker Gang Shooting
Leaves Nine Dead, Several Injured

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Prohibition Is a Moral
Scandal Built on a Mountain of Lies

Sea Weed? Packages of Marijuana
Wash Ashore in 2 States

One man may stand in the way of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania

TX House OKs cannabis oil in victory for marijuana advocates

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Barack Obama Receives Verified
@POTUS Twitter Account

First tweets of some of the
world’s most influential people

YouTube Kids app doesn’t filter raunchy videos, complaint says

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Duke professor on leave after
posting comment about black
students and their ‘strange’ names

HACK ATTACKS:

Hacker says he made plane change course

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Biker Threatened with Jail if He Doesn’t Apologize for Swearing at a Cop, He Stands his Ground

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPS GONE WILD:

Oil CEO Wanted University Quake
Scientists Dismissed: Dean’s E-Mail

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

New report accuses Bill
O’Reilly of domestic
violence against ex-wife

Elisabeth Hasselbeck gripes
that executions take too
long: ‘Where’s the justice
in’ letting inmates appeal?

CNN’s Brian Stelter Calls Out Fox News For Taking
President Obama’s Poverty Speech Out Of Context

The “Redskins” Poll Bill O’Reilly Thought Didn’t
Exist Shows Native Americans Hate The Name

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

When big climate changes occur, it might be because of tiny microbes riding on bubbles

IN INNER SPACE:

A portion of the brain that operates
speech is finally located by scientists

Webs with millions of baby spiders cover entire fields in Australia

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers baffled by
discovery of rare quasar quartet

NASA Experiment Hitches Ride on
US Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, May 12, 2015

May 12, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Climate Change, Free the Weed, Google, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Religion, SCOTUS, Steve WinwoodHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to musician Steve Winwood. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs’ home.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

Poll finds surprising amount of
support for an LGBT President

Bernie Sanders: My SCOTUS Nominees
Must Pledge to Overturn Citizens United

Huckabee: SCOTUS ‘cannot overrule God’

Scientists: Iowans need to ask presidential
candidates about climate change

Rand Paul’s New Hampshire political director licked a camera

Chris Christie Makes Big Admission On Climate Change

Jeb Bush vs. Karl Rove

Jeb Bush: I would have Approved Iraq Invasion

SCOTUS WATCH:

Most people doubt Supreme Court will
rule fairly in new Obamacare case:poll

NSA privacy questions bound for SCOTUS

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

Castro: This Pope’s So Impressive,
I Might Return to Church

LGBT NEWS:

Prince Manvendra, The World’s First Openly
Gay Prince, Fights For LGBT Rights In India

ACP Calls for LGBT Equity,
Opposes Conversion Therapy

Oklahoma City Man Suing State In
Fight Over Pro-LGBT License Plate

PHOTOS: LGBT Cubans Show Their Pride

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Police: Zimmerman shooting
linked to prior dust-up

3 hurt as gunfire erupts near
2014 California rampage scene

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana debate exclusive:
What would you be voting on?

SCOTUS Seeks Feds’ Views
On Marijuana Lawsuit
Against Colorado

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Google’s self-driving cars have crashed 11 times

CHIP: Meet the world’s first $9 fully-
functional tiny computer with built-in WiFi

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Sea levels are rising at faster clip as
polar melt accelerates, new study shows

Sea level rise accelerates, say scientists

An anthology of poetry on climate
change by Carol Ann Duffy

IN INNER SPACE:

Scientists make significant progress in search for HIV cure

IN OUTER SPACE:

Ever Wonder How You’d Go To
The Bathroom On The Space Station?

Mars’ stunning blue sunset

Messenger’s Last Hurrah – Discovers
Mercury’s Molten Core and Oldest
Magnetic Field in the Solar System

Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together

NASA releases amazing pics of Ceres

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, May 7, 2015

May 7, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Nintendo, Outer Space, Republicans, Teresa BrewerHeadly Westerfield

Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Teresa Brewer, who knew a thing or two about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.

1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.

1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.

1763 – Pontiac’s War begins with Pontiac‘s attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.

1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia.

1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.

1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.

1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.

1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.

2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.

2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

Poll: The 2016 presidential race

Only 1 in 4 New Jersey
voters think Chris Christie
has shot at GOP White
House nomination: poll

2016 Race: Why A Tea Party President Is A Real Possibility

Bernie Sanders, Long-Serving Independent,
Enters Presidential Race as a Democrat

Mike Huckabee Joins Republican Presidential Race

Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson Join 2016 Presidential Race

Carly Fiorina announces presidential bid

LGBT NEWS:

Christian Game Developer Creates
Shooter Game Called “Kill The Faggot”

Adele songs turn people
gay, claims therapist

Doc who said listening to Adele makes you
gay lives in East Texas — with his gay partner

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

The Grand Old Party
Signals Start of Senate Race

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Kentucky Sheriff Causes Panic After Accidentally
Shooting His Mom At Church Wedding

FREE THE WEED!!!

Texas House committee OKs
full marijuana legalization bill

Talking to kids about legal marijuana

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Nintendo Logs First Operating Profit in Four Years

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Keith Ablow: “Men Should
Be Able To Veto Women’s Abortions”

Brit Hume Attacks Baltimore State
Attorney For ‘Representing’ Freddie Gray

Watch: Fox 2 hopes we have a ‘dry hump day’

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Video Shows Miami Beach Detective Punch Handcuffed Woman in the Face

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate change alert: Global carbon
dioxide tops 400 ppm for first time

IN INNER SPACE:

Why did these scientists X-ray chocolate?

Strange ARCHAEAN LIFE
FORM found at ‘Loki’s Castle’
DEEP beneath Arctic Circle

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers set a new galaxy distance record

NASA student balloon captures mysterious sounds 23 miles above the Earth

Roadmap for Manned Missions to Mars Reaching ‘Consensus,’ NASA Chief Says

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, May 5, 2015

May 5, 20152016 Presidential Race, Ace Cannon, Baltimore, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Fox News, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Republicans, SCOTUS, TwitterHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to saxophonist Ace Cannon. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.

1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.

1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.

1925 – Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.

1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.

1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.

1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.

1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.

1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America

1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BALTIMORE:

The Cover of Time Magazine’s Baltimore
Issue Was Shot by Amateur Instagram User

A Bloody History of Police
Brutality in Baltimore

Freddie Gray Went to an “Apartheid School”

Teen faces higher bail than Baltimore cops accused of murder

An officer has been charged with depraved heart
murder in Freddie Gray’s death. What is that?

Baltimore police union has ‘very deep
concerns’ about prosecutor Marilyn Mosby

‘If you snitch, your career is done,’
Baltimore Cop Told When He Reported Abuse

THE 2016 ELECTION:

2016 GOP field gets new blood

Ben Carson to run for president, adding
a Tea Party darling to crowded field

Ben Carson Announces 2016 Presidential
Run: ‘I Don’t Want to Be a Politician’

7 Ridiculous Things Ben Carson Believes

Hip Hop-Hating Ben Carson Features Gospel
Version of Eminem at Campaign Launch

Carly Fiorina Jumps In The GOP Clown Car

CNN’s Carol Costello: Hillary Clinton and
Carly Fiorina Becoming ‘Weird Girl Fight’

Carly Fiorina Announces Run for President, Trolls Hillary Video

Trollection 2016: Carly Fiorina Definitely
Should Have Registered CarlyFiorina.org

Cruz sympathizes with ‘Jade Helm 15’ conspiracy theorists

SCOTUS WATCH:

Supreme Court Affirms
New Jersey’s Gay
‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

The Big Cases At The Supreme
Court That You Haven’t Heard About

LGBT NEWS:

Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘What is going on in Baltimore’ is because of too many gay marriages

Fox Contributor Guy Benson Comes Out as a Gay Conservative in New Book

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Ted Cruz Goes Full Fevered
Militia On Government ‘Tyranny’

Ted Cruz: ‘Liberal Fascism’
Threatens ‘Religious Freedom’

Rand: I’ll Look Into Whether The Military
Is Planning To Takeover The Southwest

Can’t Unring That Bell: Jeb Bush Says He’s A Fan Of Charles Murray’s Books

Wisconsin Republicans Think Potatoes
And Spices Are Too Fancy For Poor People

GOP Rep Has New Argument Against Gay
Marriage: ‘Look at What’s Going on in Baltimore’

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Missouri hunter
mistaken for turkey, shot

Child found loaded gun in John
Boehner’s Capitol suite bathroom,
among several incidents of Capitol Police
leaving behind unsecured pistols: report

FREE THE WEED!!!

In Surprise Move, Puerto Rico
Legalizes Medical Marijuana

House panel votes down bills that would
reduce penalties for marijuana possession

Feds Say Cannabis Not Medicine While
Holding Patent on Cannabis as Medicine

Here’s why the Italian army is growing hundreds of pounds of marijuana

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Twitter at the Crossroads

WSJ: Facebook to start hosting
other sites’ content this May

The (very) big fight for the small screen

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Reporter Claims
to See Baltimore Cop Shoot
Man; Police Debunk Story

Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox Reporter’s
Erroneous ‘Shooting’ Account: ‘We Screwed Up’

John Oliver Mocks Fox, CNN’s
‘Not-At-All-Racist’ Baltimore Coverage

Fox News Complains About ‘Outrageous’
Baltimore Media Comments (Ignoring Its Own)

Tucker Carlson’s Site: ‘Sexy’ Baltimore Prosecutor Flashed ‘Crazy Girl Eyes’

Friday Fox Follies – Baltimore Begats Bigots

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

GA Sheriff Shot Realtor in Stomach, Won’t Say Why, Hasn’t Been Arrested or Questioned

Violent Florida Cop Defends His
Right to Call Black People ‘Monkeys’

Power-Tripping Cop Pursues Fire Chief En
Route To Potentially Explosive Crash Scene

IN INNER SPACE:

74 largest terrestrial herbivore species
on Earth on the verge of extinction

Did she blow? NW submarine
volcano likely just erupted

IN OUTER SPACE:

New exoplanet too big for its star

Radiation from long Mars journey
could damage astronauts’ brains

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, April 30, 2015

April 30, 20152016 Presidential Race, 420, Baltimore, Climate Change, Dinosaurs, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Republicans, SCOTUS, WindowsHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Blues singer Reverend Gary Davis, who influenced a generation of ’60s Folk artists. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming “I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty.”
1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco.
1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others have resigned.
1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2009 – Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BALTIMORE:

Baltimore Death Sparks
Protests in New York, Boston

7 Facts Everyone Needs to Know to
Understand What’s Happening in Baltimore

5 Things Everyone Needs
to Know About Baltimore

#BaltimoreUprising Twitter Tag Highlights
White Oppression Of Black America (TWEETS)

Black Baltimore Residents Shown Protecting Police With Human Shield

Activist smacks down Wolf Blitzer:
‘You are suggesting broken windows
are worse than broken spines’

Crips, Bloods Call Truce, Not to Harm Cops But to
Protect their Community from Violence & Looting

11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double
Standard of Reactions to Riots Like Baltimore

THE 2016 ELECTION:

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders Announces
He Will Run for President as a Democrat

SCOTUS WATCH:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg eviscerates
same-sex marriage opponents in court

LGBT NEWS:

Anti-Gay Republican Outed As Gay
Blames Gay Agenda Smear Campaign

J’can gay rights activist
brings attention to rapes
targeting lesbians

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

The most racist places in
America, according to Google

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Anti-Gay Lawmaker Caught
Sending D*ck Pics On Grindr

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

DARPA’s steerable bullet proves it can hit moving targets

FREE THE WEED!!!

Medical marijuana legalization passes
first test in Louisiana Legislature

New York Begins Accepting
Medical Marijuana Applications

Bill limiting Oregon medical marijuana
program faces additional legislative scrutiny

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Here’s how Windows finally caught up
to Microsoft’s ‘Windows everywhere’ vision

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Twits Attack Black Chief of
Police Over Flag Pledge Policy

Dr. Phil schools Fox News host: Baltimore
kids don’t have same opportunity as yours

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: Is it possible
to be a Muslim and salute the flag?

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Charles Koch Admits Climate Change is Real

College students are making global warming
a moral issue. Here’s why that scares people.

The Arctic and Antarctic May Have a Linked Climate Change Oscillation of 200 Years

Climate change will significantly affect Australians’ health, report finds

Scientists and Religious Leaders Discuss Climate Change at Vatican

Stephen Harper draws up election calculus on climate change

IN INNER SPACE:

Move over Batman, dinosaur with bat-like wings found in China

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA’s NuSTAR Captures Possible
‘Screams’ from Zombie Stars

Astronomers discover three
super-Earths orbiting nearby star

A sharp view into black holes

New Horizons photos show multicolored Pluto surface

Video Feature: Astronomy Apps for Getting to Know the Starry Night Skies

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