IBM developing lithium-air battery for electric cars that can go 500 miles between charges.

The judge grants George Zimmerman release on a $150,000 bond, with conditions.

Watch George Zimmerman’s apology to Trayvon Martin’s parents.

Another conservative outfit has stepped in to take up the cause of voter ID laws now that ALEC has bowed out. Longtime readers will remember these guys.

I’m generally sympathetic to the political pinch Democratic elected officials in conservative states find themselves in. I’ve lived most of my life in red states, and I get the survival instinct on display when Blue Dogs and similarly situated Dems have to tack against the national party. But what can you say about Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)? The harder he tries, the worse it gets.

With a House vote scheduled for next week, the debate over the cybersecurity bill CISPA is intensifying.

Nick Martin on the surprising twists in today’s hearing in the Trayvon Martin case.

Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), saddled with a new district that has a fraction of his former constituents and with a new California law that eliminated party primaries, is facing his first real challenge since being elected in 1972 election.

One question I have about Gov. Jerry Brown’s push to fund high speed rail in California: Have proponents stripped the project down so far to make it politically palatable that they’ve doomed it with unworkable practical, technical, or economic constraints?

Honest question. I don’t know the answer. But it seems like the ingredients — or more specifically, the pressures — are there to create that kind of result. Curious what our California readers have to say on this point.

You’ve probably heard that today is the 100th birthday of Fenway Park, but you probably haven’t seen this old photo of the park or the first ball pitched at the park’s 1912 grand opening or this photo from the 1912 World Series in Boston.