Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, has given up on the Republican Party. Bernanke served as chairman of the Fed starting in early 2006, appointed by the Bush/Cheney administration to succeed Alan Greenspan. In Bernanke’s new book, The Courage to Act, the former chairman speaks out: “I tried to listen carefully and accept thoughtful …
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just returned its first color images of Pluto’s atmosphere last week, revealing that the atmospheric hazes are blue. From NASA.gov: The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team. “That striking blue tint tells …
U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group’s propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned. Toyota says it does not know how …
Two reputed gang members were arrested and appeared in court on drug charges over the weekend after Chicago Fire Department crews responded to 74 heroin overdose cases in 72 hours last week. Chicago police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were combing the West Side trying to find the source of the dangerous batch of …
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has become the first woman on the cover of Men’s Fitness in Australia. Rousey’s next fight will be against Holly Holm, and will take place in Australia on November 14 at UFC 193. The show is expected to break the UFC’s all-time attendance record, with more than 56,000 fans …