Guiding (or Yinlu) Bodhisattva (detail), ca. 851–900 CE. Ink and pigments on silk with gold leaf. British...
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Nearly fifty years ago, history was made when Neil Armstrong took his famous first small step on...
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06.29.2016 A Kansas police department has removed religious decals after the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained about...
“Free speech rules don’t apply to Silicon Valley,” observes a civil liberties advocacy group. (Photo: Ian Higgins/flickr/cc)...
A chemical found in our breath could provide a flag to warn of dangerously-low blood sugar levels...
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During the Ohio speech Tuesday, Trump also denounced the Trans-Pacific Partnership and compared it to rape. (Photo:...
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In November 1861, while she was staying at Willard’s Hotel in embattled Washington, DC, Julia Ward Howe...
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Reuters / 06.28.2016 A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves...
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This scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks...