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The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel warning Friday morning for Americans, as a result of possible threats from Al Qaeda. It will also temporarily close multiple consulates and embassies in countries located in the Middle East and North Africa starting Sunday, August 4.

An absolutely horrific scene had a happy ending for one baby over the weekend.

Besides eating, and occasionally mixing food when cooking, now another use for those frustrating pieces of wood!

Seven decades ago, a woman abandoned her apartment in Paris to flee the Nazis. She lived to be 91, yet she never returned. The apartment was recently discovered, and no one had set a foot through that door since she left! Completely untouched and full of dust, this home is like taking a glance through a time machine!

YouTube announced that after midnight tonight, they will no longer accept video uploads. They claim a winning video will be selected and featured when they relaunch in 2023. Watch this video to find out more! Is this an April Fools prank?!    ...

Solar Impulse is the most advanced solar-powered plane in the world. It is scheduled to make a trip across the United States this summer. The plane will leave the California NASA Ames Research Center in May and make New York’s Kennedy Airport its final destination in early July...

I saw a few people -- including George Takei -- add a red and pink logo to Facebook, which I found out to be a new version of the logo that represents the Human Rights Campaign.

The military tuition assistance program was shut down earlier this month due to sequestration budget cuts, but congress has now agreed to reinstate the funding for the program. The tuition assistance program provides up to $4,500 per year for service members working toward a college degree...

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a new process to detect explosives.

Ten years ago we were told BPA -- bisphenol A (the stuff in Nalgene bottles) -- was a component to be feared. Manufacturers now market "BPA free" products. New research from a lab at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is suggesting it might have been a lot of fuss for nothing.