“Maya Angelou, whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — a lyrical, unsparing account of her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday at her home …

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“Opponents of marriage equality claim that same-sex couples should be banned from marrying because children deserve both a mother and a father, but a new study suggests otherwise. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel compared the brain scans of new moms, new straight dads, and new gay dads, and found …

“Thousands of New York City police officers will soon be carrying emergency antidotes to help deal with the recent spike in heroin overdoses, officials said Tuesday. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and city Police Commissioner William Bratton announced that the state is providing the New York Police Department with …

“Edward Snowden, in an exclusive interview with “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams, is fighting back against critics who dismissed him as a low-level hacker — saying he was “trained as a spy” and offered technical expertise to high levels of government. “I was trained as a spy in sort of …

“During the 2014 West Point commencement address, President Obama declared that the U.S. remains the world’s most indispensable nation, even after a “long season of war,” but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures.” Transcript of the speech here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-commencement-address-at-west-point/2014/05/28/cfbcdcaa-e670-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) of The Young Turks breaks …

“Directly following President Barack Obama’s foreign policy speech to the West Point graduating class, Fox News contributor Karl Rove bluntly summarized what he found new about the speech: “Nothing.” “The speech was not anything new,” Rove said. “It is what we’ve said before, put together with nice packaging and with …

“Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader insists he has not sent troops to Ukraine to fight alongside pro-Russia separatists. In a statement, Ramzan Kadyrov said that as part of the Russian Federation, Chechnya had no armed forces – and that any Chechens operating in Ukraine were there in a personal capacity.” Read more …

New Matter is the latest company to join the broadening 3D printer market — the Mod T is set to be one of the cheapest yet, and it’s one bolstered by collaboration with Frog Design. Still, the question remains: why would I want this? Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full …

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