After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista’s skeptics.

For most of our planet’s history until fairly recently, the overall pattern has been for the Earth to be hot, with no permanent ice to be found anywhere.

There’s something familiar about this stage of the presidential campaign. A candidate running on inevitability. A candidate running on experience. A candidate...

Precious metals rose Friday as a fresh drop in the dollar and speculation that crude oil’s plunge may soon end fed safe-haven buying of gold, silver and copper.

The maker of Bratz dolls said Friday he will seek a mistrial over an ethnic slur made by a juror who has been dismissed from the copyright infringement case brought by...

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose

The nation’s top technology companies have spent millions of dollars and nearly two years building devices,

Chrysler LLC said Friday its financial arm will get out of the auto leasing business by the end of the month because economic conditions have made leasing more...

Whether or not any bubble has burst, Americans now live in an economy where the prospect of a gallon of gas for less than $4 is cause for relief.

Just last week, some people were actually saying that THE DARK KNIGHT was overhyped or that it wouldn’t live up to expectations, but what a difference one week...

In a July 22 story about the Jonas Brothers buying a house in a Dallas suburb, The Associated Press erroneously reported that pro golfer Brian Watts was a former...

Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to get a shot of the actress holding her infant daughter, trespassing onto her private property and snapping them...

A killer who argued Virginia’s procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method...

As we have observed throughout the last several years, the notion of fairness in journalism has been guided by a miscalculated rule that in order to report good news...

As the Illinois Democrat speaks before the picturesque Victory Column in Berlin today, the Arizona Republican is doing a slightly less exciting form of German...

Nearly all the wildfires sparked by a lightning storm in California last month have been contained.

When I set out to do a story on the effect recessions have on black Americans, I was prepared for some dire statistics. I wasn’t pleasantly surprised.

A recent study made headlines across the country: The “Tween and Teen Dating Violence and Abuse Study” was commissioned by Liz Claiborne and the National...

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign and the media would have us believe that herds of disaffected women voters will be stampeding to the Republicans this year...

In a study on mice, UC Irvine scientists have found stem cells in the brain that can produce new brain cells to replace those lost to disease or injury.