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  • In this photo released by the Jinan Intermediate People's Court, Bo Xilai appears Thursday on the first day of his trial in eastern China's Shandong province. Interestingly, he was photographed flanked by two very tall policemen.
    Bo Xilai's Corruption Trial In China Kicks Off With A Twist
    It's common to see cowed defendants admit to crimes during Communist Party show trials. But disgraced former politburo member Bo Xilai began his trial with vehement denials of guilt, calling one accuser a "crazy dog snapping at things for reward."
  • Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Thursday. The Tea Party favorite won a presidential straw poll at the annual event on Saturday.
    Rand Paul Wins Conservative Vote In Straw Poll
    At their annual conference, conservative activists chose the Kentucky senator as their pick to be the next Republican presidential nominee. The vote came ahead of the keynote speech by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a rising star in the GOP.
  • JPMorgan Shareholders Consider Splitting CEO, Chairman Jobs
    In Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase holds its annual shareholder meeting. They will vote on a key measure: Whether to strip CEO Jamie Dimon of his title of chairman of the board. A growing number of companies have split the CEO and chairman roles.
  • A Kenyan Teen's Discovery: Let There Be Lights To Save Lions
    Richard Turere, 13, put his father's cows in a pen at night. That's when the trouble would start. Lions would jump in the shed and kill the farm animals. One night he was walking around with a flashlight and discovered the lions were scared of a moving light. A light went on inside him and an idea was born.
  • Attorney General Eric Holder speaks before a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General on Tuesday.
    Justice Department Warns Of 'Pain' From Looming Cuts
    The Obama administration warns that the situation looks ugly for the department under the sequester. But for now, the most alarming claims — that prosecutors will drop cases and criminals will walk free — seem to be just that: alarms.
  • Graduate student Clement Cid sits atop the solar-powered toilet he helped to build at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. Underneath the platform, the toilet converts waste into fertilizer. The Caltech team will use fake feces to demonstrate the toilet's features next week at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offices.
    Why Is The World's Largest Foundation Buying Fake Poop?
    The Gates Foundation has granted engineers more than $3 million to develop cheap, high-tech toilets that don't need water or electricity. To test these supercommodes, the foundation has purchased 50 pounds of soybean paste that resembles human waste.
  • Egyptian anti-military protesters waved their shoes — a way of showing their extreme anger — as they demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Thursday. More protests are planned for today.
    Anger Mounts Over Egypt's 'Smooth Military Coup'
    The youth groups that were so crucial to the overthrow of Mubarak feel "they may have lost the revolution," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Cairo.
  • In what now looks like practice for the big show to come, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro gives the keynote address at the Texas Democratic Convention in Houston on June 8.
    Obama Picks San Antonio Mayor For Convention Keynote
    Julian Castro, the high-achieving and young mayor of San Antonio, will become the first Hispanic American to give the keynote address at a Democratic convention.
  • "I auditioned for <em>The Lion King</em> 20 times in 15 years, until they finally told me, 'You are not passing as a straight giraffe.'" - Titus Andromedon, the character Tituss Burgess plays in the show <em>Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt</em>.
    Tituss Burgess: You're Rocking This Thing
    The co-star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt talks about playing hilarious and bizarre TV characters, then goes back to his Broadway roots to sing a "sedentary" version of a Guys and Dolls classic.
  • A skier ascending in Jackson, Wyo., in February. The Veterans COMPACT Act of 2020 requires the Department of Veteran Affairs to investigate outdoor recreation as a recognized form of therapy.
    New VA Program Investigates Outdoor Therapy For Veterans
    The Department of Veterans Affairs will create a task force charged with researching the benefits of outdoor recreation in an effort to help reduce veteran suicides.
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