The latest supposed controversy from the Vatican is Pope Francis’s Tuesday interview with atheist la Repubblica founder Eugenio Scalfari. In the interview, the Holy Father eschewed proselytism and even seemingly argued for moral relativism: Everyone has his own idea of…

1 October 2013 Feature of the Day: Top Five Things That Won’t Shut Down on Tuesday Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press Congress Plunges Nation into Government Shutdown US-Raised Immigrants Remain in Custody As Deadline Nears, Applications To 9/11 Fund Soar…

30 September 2013 Feature of the Day: Who Will Notice a US government shut down? Public workers, foreign governments and people with the flu Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press Health Law Challenge Threatens Government Shutdown Justice Dep’t. To Sue North…

Feature of the Day: Scholar Says He’s Found New Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press Preparing for Shutdown, Government Plans Furloughs FAA to Weigh Easing Limits on Electronic Devices McCain: Partisanship in DC is Worst He…

The AP reported some disturbing news yesterday: The commission that vets cases of euthanasia in the Netherlands says cases rose by 13 percent in the Netherlands in 2012 from 2011, the sixth consecutive year of increases. Doctor-administered euthanasia for terminally…

Feature of the Day: Who is al-Shabab? Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press Senate Moves Toward Test Vote on Obamacare APNewsBreak: Feds Review Asiana’s Post-Crash Plan Dispute Over Newtown 911 Tapes Tests New Conn. Law Politico A Texas-size divide between John…

Yesterday, Popular Science announced that it was disabling its comments forum for scientific integrity: Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off. It wasn’t a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of…

Feature of the Day: The Most Controversial Laws of the Last 100 Years (The Stimulus and Obamacare Are 1 and 2) Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press In Colo., Biden Vows Flood Relief Won’t Shut Down Kenya Official: Several Americans Among…

“The result of a year’s work depends more on what is struck out than on what is left in…” –Henry Adams Morning Headlines Domestic Associated Press Rising Immigrant Deaths Put Burden on Texas County Analysis: Kenya Attack a Shift for…