The Sunlight Foundation has announced the winners in its Design for America contest, where the public were invited find cool things to do with the US government's open data feeds. They had 72 entries, all extremely

A federal judge has overturned a state court order and will allow Bank of America to sell hundreds of foreclosed homes in Utah.

Whenever I ride in a taxi in New York City, I marvel at the intestinal fortitude of the drivers who navigate pedestrians, potholes and other drivers who.

Al Qaeda's latest diabolical plot: It's staging an assault on America's eardrums and it's using autotune to do it. A pair of hip-hop jihadis—including Alabama-born convert Omar Hammami—released hot new English-language

With summer travel season upon us—and crashes in India and Libya in the headlines—The Daily Beast crunches the numbers for our second-annual rankings of the best and worst airline safety records.

To date, the EU has banned 1100 chemicals in cosmetics; the Food and Drug Administration in America has banned only ten. In fact, Cover Girl waterproof mascara contains the same ingredient (petroleum distillates

Linda Darling-Hammond is part of Change.org's Changemaker network, a network comprised of leading voices for social change. Today, we mark the 56th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the l...

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That point may be Thor (which wasn't shot on 3D cameras and would have to be converted in post), but it's far more likely to be The First Avenger: Captain America .

Toby Jones, the British actor best known for playing real-life characters such as Truman Capote in “Infamous,” will play in his first comic book movie with Marvel Studios' “Captain America .” Jones is in