Firefighters on Sunday took advantage of cooler, damper weather to battle a vast blaze ravaging Santa Barbara County as they tried to gain a foothold against the fire...

Mexico’s Agriculture Department is denying reports that the United States will close its borders to some Mexican produce.

The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale.Frankly, one shouldn\’t encourage such behavior by...

Marty Boyer\’s carefully maintained sport utility vehicle growled more like a dragster than a 2001 Honda Passport when he turned the key.

Sending private messages through back channels is nothing new. We do it all the time with emails and direct messages on multiple services. However, sometimes...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a day off the campaign trail Sunday in Chicago, attending a neighborhood barbecue with his family.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain attended church Sunday and later visited a Veterans Affairs hospital in his hometown.

I’m in a seven-year relationship with a guy I care about deeply. We own a home together, get along very well, and have a safe, stable relationship. The problem is...

Names of the Norfolk 17, black students who were educated at First Baptist Church during Virginia’s “Massive Resistance” to school desegregation. The...

The “Norfolk 17″ were honored Sunday at the church that educated them 50 years ago when six of the city’s all-white public schools closed under...

Barack Obama has been straightforward about his position on third-term abortion from the start: from where he\’s sitting, strong restrictions on late-term...

The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year\’s July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and...

There are a couple groups for whom rising oil prices haven\’t been all bad: roustabouts and service unit operators in the oil and gas industry.

A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September.European Space Agency mission...

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,” Albert Camus wrote, “and that is suicide.” How to explain why, among the only species capable of...

A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot.

AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low—around 20-30 American cents, less than the price of the average newspaper—and...

Women over 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia than men of the same age, according UC Irvine researchers involved with the 90 Study, one of the...

NEW YORK — It was many and many a year ago in a cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces.

U.S. Department of Education employees inappropriately used government credit cards to purchase $49,500 worth of goods and services, including meals, items at clothing...