To experience President Obama’s moving eulogy, click the link below. This is a case where reading is inadequate.

Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000-year-old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos (“the pit of bones” in Spanish). The scientific team used new methods to extract the ancient DNA from the fossil…

Generated by higher gas taxes, licensing fees, and traffic fines, most of the money can be expected to go to sorely needed maintenance of the state’s transportation network, as identified by professionals in the state Department of Transportation and local agencies. But lawmakers also reserved up to about $60 million a year to be distributed by more dubious means – namely, themselves…

Every state but the “dirty dozen” – Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Pennsylvania – limits political contributions from such sources…

NEW YORK TIMES: Detroit is eligible to shed billions in debt in the largest public bankruptcy ever in the United States, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, while also finding that the public pensions could be reduced during reorganization despite a provision in Michigan’s Constitution.

At least three lawmakers of the governing Party of Regions have quit in protest, and the opposition wants to oust the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov during a confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday. But the opposition, which now controls some 170 seats, would need 226 votes in the 450-seat Parliament to oust the government…

The reason most cited by students is the ability to get a better job. This is no surprise; it is a reality. And institutions of higher education place themselves in peril if they continue to ignore how inadequately we have framed our role in everyday language—language that resonates with the public, policy shapers and legislators who influence and/or set the policies and control many of the resources shaping our destiny.

You see ineptness nightly in the antics of those who run our government in Washington. Not so easy to find news about state government. State news gets little in-depth coverage and – if it does – there is no forum that reaches all of PA.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians angered by Mr. Yanukovych’s sudden reversal on the EU deal and a violent police crackdown on protesters Saturday streamed into Independence Square in Kiev’s center Sunday, carrying scarves, ribbons and flags in yellow and blue, Ukraine’s national colors, and chanting, “Get the thugs out.”…