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When dung beetles roll their tiny balls of poop across the sands of South Africa on a moonless night, they look to the glow of our Milky Way galaxy as a navigational aid, researchers report. "Even on clear, moonless nights, many dung beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths," Marie Dacke, a biologist at Sweden's Lund University, said in a news release. "This led us to suspect that the beetles exploit the starry sky for orientation — a feat that had, to our knowledge, never before been demonstrated in an insect."

Jan. 21, 2013: Two teenagers are accused of spray-painting walls and furniture inside a 93-year-old World War II veteran's home, and police say that paint helped them identify their suspects. Phillip Mena reports.

Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say they will be the last.Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered everything but their eyes, leaving them virtually invisible in shadow - until they struck.Using weapons such as shuriken, a sharpened star-shaped projectile, and the fukiya blowpipe, they were silent but deadly.

Explaining voter fraud, Benghazi and the fiscal cliff to Fox-watching family members..“The Holidays” are now officially here, and all Americans will soon have to face their extended families and listen to them talk. For many young Americans — specifically young Americans related to old white Americans — Thanksgiving and our various Winter Holidays are extra stressful, because young Americans are largely a liberal, Obama-voting bunch, and old white Americans are mostly not. Unfortunately, old white Americans spend a lot of their time being lied to by conservatives on TV, the radio and the Internet, and while that is not their...

WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - A Chinese restaurant forced to shut its doors after getting caught with a dead deer in the kitchen. It happened Thursday afternoon at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg. "We were actually joking about the, you know, the whole Chinese restaurant. You know some rumors that you hear," says Katie Hopkins, a customer of the Red Flower restaurant. But, Hopkins and her friends never imaged what would happen next, after finishing up a buffet lunch. "Two of the workers came in wheeling a garbage can and they had a box sitting on top of it....

St. Louis, MO (KPLR) A toy at a Kentucky hardware store invites customers to duke it out with president Barack Obama. It’s called the Obama Bop. Some customers are fighting mad because of the bruised face on the toy and taking their business elsewhere. The owners say if they had a Romney version of the toy they would sell that as well. The punching bag costs $20.

What a sweet cosmic find! Sugar molecules have been found in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star, suggesting that some of the building blocks of life may actually be present even as alien planets are stillforming in the system.

Because politics touches everything in Washington, including our plates, we at Yeas & Nays have compiled a list of some of the area eateries that are trying to make this presidential election cycle tastier

What would have seemed unlikely—if not impossible as the fear of doing so was too great—three years ago, is beginning to happen today. Some successful in Hollywood are actually speaking out against Dictator-in-Chief Obama and the now totally corrupt Marxist-Democrat Party. As with the commencement of all pro-liberty movements, only the most courageous amongst us first step into the fray. The others follow after they believe it is safer to do so. The brave one, this time, is producer and now screenwriter Bettina Sofia Viviano.

Let's take our eyes off the Republican presidential race for a minute and ask the question, where if anywhere are we getting adult leadership on major public policy issues this year? The answer, I think, is where the Founding Fathers seem to have least expected it, from the House of Representatives, and specifically from its Republican leaders. The Founders expected the House, with all its members elected directly by the people every two years, to be the flightiest branch of government, most susceptible to momentary enthusiasms and nostrums, in need of restraint from a Senate full of old-timers and a...

The owner of the not-too-generous traits outlined above is one New York Democratic Senator named Charles Schumer. I suspect that Democrat leadership feels that they can call on “Chuckie” to make a public spectacle out of himself as the spokesman for anything distasteful with which leadership would rather not be connected.

The ordinance does not extend protections to gays, lesbians and transgender people, but two council members said after the vote that an ordinance to include those protections would be proposed later.

MAYFIELD — Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell gave Kentucky Republicans a preview of next year’s presidential race and how his party will run against incumbent President Barack Obama at a pre-Fancy Farm breakfast of Republicans here.... McConnell didn’t directly address his part in negotiating a last-minute deal in the federal debt limit standoff, but he thanked his party for helping him rise to the position of Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, a position from which he helps decide some of the country’s most important debates.

Then this week came rumors (accurate it turns out) that Jamie Comer, the Republican candidate for Agriculture Commissioner, had hired Lexington Tea Party leader and blogger Mica Sims to organize a grassroots get-out-the-vote effort in the fall campaign. As the rumor spread in Republican circles, phone lines burned up and David Williams, the Republican candidate for governor, reached for heartburn remedies. Many believe the Tea Party is a temporary phenomenon. I’m sure of only one thing: at least for the present it’s especially dangerous for Republicans to underestimate them.

"I believe that people who underestimate Sarah Palin do so at their own risk — but according to recent polls, a lot of people are willing to take that risk."..."I believe that people who underestimate Sarah Palin do so at their own risk — but according to recent polls, a lot of people are willing to take that risk."

The graveyard is being prepared and graves for Progressive/Obama Bills dug clear to China...It doesn’t take rocket science to revisit a few decisions by Obama and this administration from the first days in office to see the calculated plan of destruction against America.We could hardly take another breath when Obama gave 900 million to the serial killer group, Hamas, who chronically lob missiles at our faithful alley Israel and kill Jews where ever they can.

TOTNES, England, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- An early member of the 1970s rock group ELOwas killed when his van was crushed by a bale of hay, British police said.

"I would say that this life, for the last 25 or 30 years since we left the White House,has been the most enjoyable and the most gratifying," he says.

Republican Elliot Polach is disenchanted with his party's leaders inWashington, many of whom voted for a bank bailout and other big-ticketspending bills in the past year.These days, he'd rather be called a conservative than a Republican.Polach, the 18-year-old founder of the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party inPaducah, is emblematic of deep and widespread frustration that has surfacedin Republican primaries nationwide.

Chandler said he voted against the “Wall Street bailout” proposed by the Bush administration because he thought it “did too much to help the Wall Street folks who caused our economic troubles” and not enough for ordinary Americans.The federal economic stimulus program, which the Chamber of Commerce supported, was “absolutely crucial” in getting the GDP to grow again, as well as improving the housing and automobile markets, Chandler said.