A Major 5.8 earthquake rattles the north east coast of the United States on Tuesday August 23, 2011 around 1:15 PM ET. The earthquake was felt in Washington DC and New York City as well as throughout the rest of the coastal states from South Carolina to Massachusets. The Pentagon was evacuated as ...

Hollywood breakout Jeremy Pope stars as Ellis French, a young Black man—loosely based on Bratton—rejected by his own mother for being gay. With nowhere else to turn, French enlists in the Marines, which offers both a lifeline and further complications as he struggles to hide his sexuality in a time

Glee's Cory Monteith has joined the 'Straight But Not Narrow' campaign,as an effort to encourage young heterosexual men to show support for their gay peers. Says Monteith in his video: "So, maybe you like to play football, maybe you like to sing and dance, maybe you like both. Maybe you don't like e...

1414 years ago, amid a dense jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, a Mayan king was born in Palenque, which is the modern-day State of Chiapas, Mexico. Born in 603 CE, and dying eighty years later after a reign of 68 years, K’inich Janaab Pakal I was considered the greatest king of Palenqu

Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...

After a chance encounter in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Johnathan Bailey) start a volatile romance that spans "the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obsta...

On April 10, 2019, the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed humanity's first glimpse of a black hole. The EHT Collaboration consists of 13 stakeholder institutes; the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the University of Arizona, the University of C

While their cameras bore witness, cinematographer Steve Holleran and his film crew were trapped as this particular fire “basically just blew up and split around us, and cut us off from being able to leave,” Holleran told The Atlantic. “We'd been told this was a safe zone. It all happened really fast

Carl Reiner, the writer, producer, director and actor who was part of Sid Caesar’s legendary team and went on to create “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and direct several hit films, has died on June 30, 2020. He was 98.Reiner, the father of filmmaker and activist Rob Reiner, was the winner of nine Emmy awa

Flight Official Trailer #1 2012 - Starring Denzel Washington: In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After...