Italy to acquire robotic warfare capabilities from U.S.
The Italian government will become the second U.S. ally to have its Reaper drone aircraft fitted with U.S. missile launching capabilities.
Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.
Black politicians and church leaders to meet over new voter ID laws
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will hold a meeting Wednesday afternoon with clergy leaders from Conference of National Black Churches to discuss ideas to combat the wave of new voter ID laws existing around the country.
5 facts about the fallen to remember on Memorial Day
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Memorial Day — first called Decoration Day — got its start commemorating fallen soldiers at the end of the Civil War. In 1865, former slaves exhumed Union soldiers from a mass grave in Charleston, South Carolina and buried them in individual graves
Teenaged immigrant solves problem that baffled Isaac Newton
16 year old Shouryya Ray denies being a genius, but he’s being hailed for having solved a problem that has baffled mathematicians.
Man who tweeted joke about blowing up UK airport gets new trial
A man who tweeted a joke threat to “blow up” Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire has lost his attempt to overturn the judgment – but now the appeal will be considered all over again.
