The California Institute of Technology has been awarded $100,000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a solar-powered toilet that recycles water and produces energy. A primary focus of the Gates Foundation and their Reinvent The Toilet Challenge is sanitation in Third World countries.

The victory dance by some this week when Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID law survived its first court test may prove premature, since the law still faces at least three other likely legal challenges.

This morning, I posted this week's social slipup, highlighting the increasing trend in politics of buying fake Twitter followers.

Moody's says more California municipal bankruptcies are coming, as well as bond defaults.

Republican backers of Pennsylvania’s Voter ID Law are claiming victory in a court battle over a new photo id requirement that was upheld earlier this week, while multiple voter rights groups and registered voters filed an appeal against the ruling on Thursday.