Kamala Harris Urges High Court to Hear Challenge to Obamacare
State Attorney General Kamala Harris wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether businesses can be exempt from providing contraception coverage. Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief this week in a case challenging the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. A ruling in the case could have wide-ranging ramifications.
NASA Helps Draw Up Rules for Flying Drones in the U.S.
Drones are stirring up controversy after Amnesty International released a report Tuesday questioning the legality of some strikes in Pakistan. Here in the U.S., citizens and private companies are hoping to use the technology for much more benign purposes, like taking aerial pictures, monitoring crops, even delivering packages. But right now drones in America are flying in a legal grey zone. The Federal Aviation Administration has no official rules for wide spread use of these machines. So the FAA is turning to NASA to help design some.