Security was so pervasive around Rhinebeck, NY, the groom was held for questioning in Poughkeepsie.

Drones delivered the coveted invitations. No FOB—Friends of Bill—this time, just FOC.

The Salahis were shot down entering Rhinebeck airspace. The Gores weren’t invited because of the seating problem.

A Jewish ceremony—SWAT team broke the glass.

Finally, after more than 147 years of service, London’s famed Tube has its first air-conditioned trains. According to the Transport of London’s press release, it is expected that by 2015 40% of the London’s extensive network will have air conditioning.

For non-scientists like myself, scientific studies can be validating, frustrating, and, ultimately, confusing. The headlines have a particular allure, even if the actual results are not as clear cut as the headlines suggest.

Based on a slew of recent findings about alcohol, if you read the headlines, here is the formula to live a healthy and happy long life: develop great friends and eat chocolate and drink alcohol in moderation. Advice many of us will willingly take–even if it is “weak science.”

Last week, scientists from the University of Southern Florida validated suspicions—first voiced in early May by a separate group of researchers from the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology (NIUST)—that submerged plumes of oil in the Gulf of Mexico originated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Ok, we’ll admit that the headline is a bit silly, since Hudson Bay is most obviously more than 400 years old–indeed, the eastern coast of the bay is bordered, at a distance of some 200 miles (300 km), with a set of islands and has cliffs formed of geologically ancient Precambrian (more than 540 million […]

For the past several decades, there has been an informal understanding between the reporters who uncovered newsworthy secrets and the government intelligence agencies, which tried to keep them from public view.

We would tell senior officials what we’d learned. And they would point out any unforeseen consequences that might arise from publication, such as the death of an American informant. Ultimately, the call on what appeared rested with editors. But it was a decision informed by more than our own guesswork.

It was 45 years ago today, on July 30, 1965, that part of the Great Society of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was realized, as the president signed into law acts creating Medicare and Medicaid. The acts guaranteed health insurance for the elderly and the poor, respectively.

With former president Harry Truman looking on, Johnson began his remarks, “The people of the United States love and voted for Harry Truman, not because he gave them hell–but because he gave them hope.”

Monday morning, The New York Times, England’s The Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel published reports on what’s been termed the “War Logs”–nearly 92,000 documents about the war in Afghanistan made public by WikiLeaks. To put the leaked documents in context, we pulled together some of the best, past reporting on the main themes in the reports.

It was 29 years ago today, on July 29, 1981, that the world was captivated by the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. A global media event, it was televised live and watched by hundreds of millions of people. It was a fairytale wedding, one that would later give way to tabloid headlines about infidelity and taped conversations of Charles in love talk with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he would later marry.

This photo captures the couple on their return to Buckingham Palace after their wedding, Diana’s smile and innocence captured so well by the photographer.

In the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia today, legislators are scheduled to decide whether or not to ban bullfighting. [Update: The lawmakers voted 68-55 to ban bullfighting.] The ban originally was passed last December, but to take effect it had to pass a final hurdle. Aida Gascón, the national director of AnimaNaturalis, said that such a […]