The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement ...

It is Friday afternoon and you're not reading this, but that is your loss because here is a pretty entertaining Commodity Futures Trading Commission press release and the related consent order. I'm going to tell you about it, with the caveat that it's ...

“It's a ghost town,” said Jamall Jackson, a letter carrier with the United States Postal Service, who encountered a number of locked doors and darkened storefronts along his route. “But I still try to satisfy my customers.” Md Hye, manager of the ...

During the cool months of the year — the period from Memorial Day to Labor Day is so hot that Randsburg is a ghost town even on weekends — the hotel is full, booked by visitors who pay $85 for a simple, rustic room, or $125 to $185 for a furnished cabin.

JS Something that you never directly engage with, but which I feel skirting your work—with these ideas of mapping and preserving and communication and legacy—is the concept of the alien. Do you believe in extraterrestrials? AD What a turn at the end ...

Should we ever detect an extraterrestrial civilization, or any kind of alien life for that matter, it's a safe bet they'll look very different from us. They'll also probably think in a way that's completely foreign to what we're used to. Here's how ...

When Andrew Whitney heard where the investigative crew of the popular Syfy reality series "Ghost Hunters" was proposing to go last fall he almost fall out of his chair. The Syfy development executive in charge of giving The Atlantic Paranormal Society ...

Nearly all cancers remain within an individual animal or human. But one cancer outlived the dog in which it emerged by spreading its abnormal cells on to other dogs during mating. Now, researchers have named this sexually transmitted canine cancer the ...

Kenya: Two Held Over Witchcraft. By Lydia Ngoolo, 27 January 2014. Two people are being held at Mwingi police station over witchcraft. George Orare alias Mohammed and Maundu Mutua were arrested after they allegedly visited Nyanyaa village in Mwingi ...