Salt Lake OKs gay rights laws with Mormon backing

With a historic endorsement from the Mormon church, the Salt Lake City Council unanimously passed a pair of ordinances making it illegal to discriminate against gays.

D.C.-area sniper ‘died very peacefully’

  John Allen Muhammad stepped foot into Virginia's death chamber and within seconds was lying on a gurney, tapping his left foot, his arms spread wide with a needle dug into each.

Carbon storage? Not under my house!

The residents of a Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just don't want it to be the ground below their homes.

Investigators: Fort Hood suspect acted alone

The Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood massacre apparently acted alone and without outside direction, investigative officials said Monday evening.

Missing soldier’s body found in Afghanistan

Military divers have found the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who disappeared last week in western Afghanistan, NATO officials said.

theGrio: Sosa's new skin reflects ugly mentality

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of alien life.

‘Slow money’ gains momentum

Former venture capitalist Woody Tasch is trying to persuade at least 1 million Americans to donate at least $25 each to help create a fund to support local food businesses and family farms.

Newsweek: The fight over abstinence at Harvard

Thanks to the provocations of True Love Revolution, the university's three-year-old pro-abstinence club, brainy women are defending their right to have sex with whomever they want, whenever and however they want.