Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?

Authorities say the lone survivor of a mid-air crash of two medical helicopters has died at a hospital.

A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.

On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants and two pilots, rendered in bronze,...

A generation growing up with social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unable to form lasting relationships and are at increased risk of behaving...

Endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned today, in a bleak re-assessment of the threat to global biodiversity.

At Fourth of July parades and barbecues around the Tar Heel state, Jesse Helms’ supporters recalled this father of the conservative movement as the man who stood...

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

There\’s no doubt that it\’s getting easier to access the Web on a mobile device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple\’s Web browser, Safari, millions of...

Michael Turner, a comic book artist who drew covers for major titles such as “Superman/Batman,” “The Flash” and “Civil War,’”...

Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A dissertation in education research shows that there is a neurobiological...

The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty’s crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a...

I want to take this opportunity to speak directly to those of you who oppose my decision to support the FISA compromise.

The baking soda is optional, but if you choose not to use it, be sure to move the eggs to cold water (use ice) immediately after boiling. Blow from the tip to the...

Former conservative Senator Jesse Helms, a staunch backer of racial apartheid and one-time chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, died Friday, a conservative...

Many people think of food waste as a benign substance. It rots down in the landfill anyway, so no problem, right?

The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York’s former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis...

Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the...

When online troublemaker Julian Assange co-founded Wikileaks, the net\’s premiere document-leaking site last year, some were skeptical that the service would...

Martian soil data collected by five robotic missions indicates that rain fell on the Red Planet billions of years ago. The findings provide no new insight into the...