NASA's Centennial Challenges program awarded $350,000 this week to a pair of designers who developed concepts for more flexible space gloves that could make it easier for astronauts to perform tasks.

NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look inside America's space program and front row seats to the Nov. 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis.

Actor Dwayne Johnson, usually known for his action and comedic film roles, takes to the stars as an astronaut in a new animated feature that brings important messages about the importance of space exploration and education to those of us here on Earth.

Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) told CNSNews.com that civilian courts are well-suited to prosecute al Qaeda terrorists and "if people don't believe in our system, they ought to go somewhere else."

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told CNSNews.com that the Obama administration was giving 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "his wish" by giving him a trial in federal civilian court in New York instead of trying him before a military commission.

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that whether U.S. troops would have to read Osama bin Laden his Miranda rights upon capture was a "murky area."

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said that civilian courts are better than military tribunals for prosecuting terrorists, but he did not directly answer whether 9/11 leader Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be read his Miranda rights.

House Republicans are asking the Obama administration to stop touting the number of jobs "saved or created" by the $787 billion economic stimulus law, citing widespread reports that the data are inaccurate.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released a report on Monday saying that the climate change legislation being considered by Congress could reduce the purchasing power of the middle class and shrink or slow the economy.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says no more low-income, mostly minority children will get taxpayer-funded scholarships to attend private or parochial schools in the District of Columbia.

"Pakistan risks falling prey to a worsening cycle of poverty, polarization and conflict, at a time when the population continues to increase rapidly and growing numbers of Pakistanis hunger for a better life," the report said.

After his election last November and until the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February, President Obama repeatedly insisted that it was urgent for Congress enact his economic "recovery" bill immediately. Yet, by the end of fiscal 2009 78 percent of the federal spedning authorized by that bill had not yet taken place.

A longtime liberal activist is collecting accounts of homosexuals in the Catholic priesthood--and plans to use those accounts to "encourage" priests to renounce the Church's moral stand on homosexuality or face public "outing."

When Martin Luther King Jr. Day arrives in January, MSNBC commentators certainly will not denigrate the heroic civil rights leader by claiming he improperly crossed the line between church and state when he demanded that the laws of this country protect the God-given rights of African Americans.

America's rural hospitals may face further financial woes if the House health care bill becomes law.

A federal judge has denied a convicted murderer's request for more hair removal treatments as she waits to find out if she can get state-funded sex change surgery.

A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible ...

The Doors' Riders On The Storm and the Beach Boys' California Girls are among 25 recordings being inducted into the Grammy Hall ...

Writer Julie Powell, the Julie of the hit book and movie Julie & Julia, looks like a butcher.