GRANTS PASS, Oregon (PNN) - April 14, 2015 - For the past several years, the miners from the Galice Mining District, about 30 miles west of Grants Pass, Oregon, have been arguing over who has the rights to the minerals in the ground around Galice Creek.

JUNEAU, Alaska (PNN) - April 11, 2015 - The Alaska House of Representatives passed a bill Monday forcing the federal government to uphold the Alaska Statehood Act’s land transfer entitlement.

The legislation transfers ownership of 5.5 million square acres of land back to Alaska, along with an additional 100 million square acres of public land.

BOSTON, Massachusetts (PNN) - April 11, 2015 - If you could find out your baby’s future health problems right after he or she was born, would you want to know? Some new parents will get to make that decision soon. This month, doctors in Boston will begin the BabySeq project, in which they will sequence the genomes of newborns to look for signs of diseases that begin in childhood.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 11, 2015 - One unfortunate fact of modern life is that functional new software becomes non-functional old software with depressing regularity. For most people, this means predictable episodes of frustration, but for the Fascist Police States of Amerika military, it's a more serious problem. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) new Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS) project aims to take a major shot at avoiding this obsolescence by developing software systems that can still operate properly a hundred years from now.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 10, 2015 - Four months after a measles outbreak at Disneyland, state legislators seeking to tighten immunization laws across the country are running the gauntlet of anti-vaccination activists who have bombarded them with emails and phone calls, heckled them at public meetings, harassed their staff, organized noisy marches, and vilified them on social media.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 8, 2015 - The Amerikan firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone - double the total of just three years earlier.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 27, 2015 - The Senate Democrat minority leader, Harry Reid, announced on Friday he will not seek re-election in 2016, ending a congressional career that spanned three decades.

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LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 7, 2015 - Taking 2D photos with your phone is rather popular these days, but thanks to Caltech scientists, soon you may be able to wave your phone at an object and capture a 3D scan of it. You could scan a particularly nice coffee cup, and then instantly send the 3D scan to a 3D printer and produce an exact copy.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 27, 2015 - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is to establish the role of a rapporteur to cover privacy issues in a landmark decision that helps establish the idea that freedom from excessive surveillance is a fundamental right.