- The Department of Defense has paid out hundreds of dollars to settle allegations of sexual abuse against civilian workers in Hawaii.
- Archaeologists may have discovered the wreckage of the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus.
- A new global poll conducted by the Anti-Defamation League concerning anti-Semitism suggests 4% of the global population deny the Holocaust occurred. Other findings from the survey are both surprising and concerning.
- A Florida couple has been fined and threatened with imprisonment for feeding the homeless.This story is yet another part of the frequently asked question, Why doesn't the Church do more to help the poor?
- According to a survey conducted by The Art Newspaper, the Vatican Museum ranks as the fifth most visited art museum in the world.
- "The Big Read" program of the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $9,000 grant to the Quincy Public Library.
- In what seems to be a rather ridiculous stunt, the Military Association of Atheists and Free Thinkers plans to ask the military for "chaplains". Why an atheist should have need of a chaplain - a word which, even in its etymology, only refers to a minister of a chapel or one who prayers - is quite beyond me.
