Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three...

There are many well-known blogs that track developments in the mobile phone industry, from the Boy Genius Report to mocoNews.net.

Following Demonoid and QuebecTorrent, the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has threatened isoHunt with legal action. However, isoHunt has decided to...

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A British woman plans to make a parachute jump over Mount Everest hoping to become the first woman ever to skydive over the world’s highest peak, organizers said...

The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.

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A ‘comedy brain cell’ has been discovered by scientists, which responds to humour.

A former New Jersey lawmaker with a national reputation for pushing welfare reform is facing charges of using his political clout to land no-work government jobs as a...

John McCain and Sarah Palin are riding their post-convention wave into competitive Western states, where Democrats have made gains in traditional Republican...

The GOP candidate for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, may be facing yet another ethics investigation back in her home state of Alaska. An ethics complaint obtained by...

A top House Democrat confirmed Saturday that the government is planning to intervene to stabilize troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday, but sidestepped questions about the woman who has taken her place as the...

Authorities in northern Illinois say an explosion has destroyed a house and the bodies of the elderly couple who occupied the home have been found in the wreckage.

Nobody draws attention like Lindsay Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson.

Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put...

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Hurricane Ike has again intensified to a Category 3 storm with winds sustained at 115 mph.

For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.

Ron Reagan, the liberal son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is going back on the radio.

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Ike has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm with winds sustained at 110 mph.