Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. read more
Fox News Channel on Friday denied Donald Trump's assertion that any of its employees wrote jokes for him to deliver this week at a New York appearance. read more
The Associated Press looks at the what is happening with the estimated 20,000 shipping containers that have gone overboard from cargo ships. read more
"As far as we know, there's only a few places in the world that have ultra-high-quality quartz," according to Ed Conway, author of Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization. Russia and Brazil also supply high-quality quartz, he says, but "Spruce Pine has far and away the [largest amount] and highest quality." read more
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday rebuked Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Republicans who have grown fond of the leader. read more
Feds better put the boot on Trump's plane. He's a flaming flight risk at this point. I wouldn't be surprised to see him in some foreign clime come the morning of Nov. 6. His minions can carry on all his nonsense without him.