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The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sri Srinivasan to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals with a 97-0 vote.

A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun.

Glenn Beck doesn't just manufacture wild conspiracy theories out of absolutely nothing.

The Knitting Circle's Sanjiv Hayre is pictured on the ladder with fellow cast members, the writer, crew and volunteer knitters THE Pegasus Theatre is well versed in spinning yarns.

He enjoyed devising elaborate hoaxes and was said by many, including close friend and colleague Bob Zmuda, to have been obsessed with the idea of faking his own death.

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house in Clayton County.

For many years, Amazon.com enjoyed a crucial leg up compared to traditional retailers like Barnes & Noble, Sears, and Wal-Mart: The e-tailer didn't charge sales taxes to its customers.

Mystery Brewing Co. won $50,000 to help grow the more than one-year-old Hillsborough brewery in a competition between three small businesses held as part of a new CNBC Prime television series.

Conservatives have alleged that progressives have been engaged in a callous attempt under this plutocratic administration in creating artificial crises so that the plutocracy can abridge citizens' rights.

Following tour announcements last week by UMO and TimeOut cover stars Shapeshifter , this week sees separate tours by the Phoenix Foundation, the Adults, Fat Freddy's Drop , and Ladi6 scheduled for mid-winter, multi-date runs around the country.

The Blue Ridge Mountain Quilt Guild is dedicated to charitable & educational purposes of the art of quilting in the community.

The reader weary of cutesy novels with multiple story lines that are obviously going to be inextricably tied together, somehow, might not want to venture too far into Darien Gee's The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society .

The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency.

On Sunday, six days after a furious and deadly tornado, President Obama will reportedly head to Moore, Oklahoma.

The Milwaukee Brewers now have a beer named in honor of the team's mascot. Brewers officials announced Wednesday that "Bernie's Barrelman Ale" was the name selected by fans for a new Leinenkugel Brewing Company beer available only at the ballpark.

Some of the city's top art festivals might be well over the hill, but with an influx of fresh faces on the cultural scene [ Arts Valve, April 24: "New Kids on the Art Block" ] , don't relegate them to RainbowVision just yet.

In an increasingly eco-conscious world, a play like Twitch is sure to resonate with a broad spectrum of theatre-goers, even though its material encompasses far more than the bird-watching activities of its protagonists.

If our planet's increasingly extreme weather isn't caused by man-made climate change, then it stands to reason that it's actually caused by man-made supervillains using government technology to take American Freedoms with superstorms like Monday's mile-wide monster tornadoes.

Popular conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says the government wields a " weather weapon " that can "create and steer" tornadoes.

WOODEN spools are a great vintage find. These days, you can still find a bundle of them lurking about in craft shops and the occasional craft bazaars.