The president of Planned Parenthood said her organization’s clinics never adjust the abortion procedure to better preserve fetal organs for medical research and that the organization’s charges cover only the cost of transmission to researchers. Planned Parenthood has come under congressional scrutiny after the release of two stealthily recorded videos…
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New Horizons continues to yield a bounty of discoveries, with NASA today showing stunning new photos, including haze and flowing ice on Pluto. Taken seven hours after New Horizons made its closest pass by Pluto, an image released today shows the dwarf planet shrouded in darkness and surrounded by a…
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The debate over ride-hailing firm Uber is laying bare divides in the Democratic Party and on the left about how to handle the new “sharing” economy. Republicans are hungry to exploit that ambivalence and make inroads into a wealthy sector of the tech industry. In New York City this past…
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NASA says we’re on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely resembling Earth and the Sun, NASA officials said. The newly discovered planet, which NASA has named Kepler-452b, is believed to be 6 billion years old — making it about…
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Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. In private meetings on Capitol Hill , industry officials have told lawmakers and congressional staff that they…
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The Daily Transcript of San Diego said Wednesday it will publish its last edition Sept. 1, ending a nearly 130-year run in the newspaper business. The newspaper is no longer viable due to rising costs for health care and other expenses and an uncertain future for the industry, Publisher Robert…
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Uber cars can continue to be a growing presence on the streets of New York City now that an agreement has been reached between the ride-hailing company and the city. Just before a City Council vote that could have capped the number of cars Uber can have on city streets,…
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A man was arrested in Hawaii for allegedly arranging to buy six pairs of military-grade night-vision goggles from an undercover federal agent and trying to export them to China, court documents show. Song Il Kim spent several months negotiating with the agent in Utah to buy the devices, which are…
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For all those who hailed the iPhone as the “Jesus Phone” in 2007, the Apple Watch’s arrival has hardly been the second coming. Sure, it can do many useful, even delightful things, such as showing us incoming texts and email, tracking our heart rate during exercise or letting us send…
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Earth dialed the heat up in June, smashing warm temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year. Off-the-charts heat is “getting to be a monthly thing,” said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . June was the fourth month…
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