The Glasgow Commonwealth Games proved to be much more than just 'Friendly' as Scottish culture, sport and six-…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "may never know" how a fairly harmless form of bird flu …

Two security experts who a year ago exposed methods for hacking the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape say they have develop…

A series of explosions set off by a team of scientists is expected to rattle the Mount St. Helens in Washington State o…

Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or…

Dogs are a man's best friend, and research released on Wednesday says canines want to keep it that way. Dogs are…

Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or…

For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practi…

A pivotal trial of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc's experimental drug Zerenex showed that it improved levels of seru…

Scientists will begin excavation early next week of an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare bounty of fossil rem…

German drugmaker Bayer said a Phase III trial of cancer drug Nexavar in patients with advanced breast cancer did not m…

Babies in the womb show evidence of learning by their 34th week, three weeks earlier than previously thought, new rese…

For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practi…

An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday with a pair of U.S. …

NASA's decade-old Mars rover Opportunity has set a new off-Earth, off-road distance record, logging just over 25 m…

If someone were to create an award for "mother of the year" in the animal kingdom, a remarkably dedicated ei…

The lead in human teeth holds clues about where a person grew up and can help criminal investigators and archaeologist…

A Texas company is offering a unique send off for beloved pets by placing a portion of their cremated remains in a cap…

Large flesh-eating dinosaurs evolved into small flying birds, but it did not happen overnight. An international team…

This fall, when Representative Michael Grimm asks New York voters to send him to Washington for a third term in Congre…

Representative Eric Cantor said on Friday he will resign his seat effective Aug. 18, months earlier than expected foll…

Chicago said its budget deficit was on track to shrink to just below $300 million in 2015, but a state-mandated increa…

The federal jury hearing the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell on Friday saw a racy email …

Massachusetts lawmakers on Friday tightened the state's already strict gun laws by passing a measure that gives po…

Former President Bill Clinton said he "could have killed" Osama bin Laden in remarks to an audience in Austr…

The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to reconsider its July 22 ruling that poses a majo…

A U.S. lawmaker has launched an inquiry into the amount of money the Commodity Futures Trading Commission spends on le…

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday created a panel to recommend reforms to the state's pension and healt…

A Florida judge on Friday set a deadline of Aug. 15 for state lawmakers to redraw U.S. congressional district maps tha…

In an interview ( here ) with Reuters late on Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 81, was not ju…

President Barack Obama said on Friday the CIA "tortured some folks" after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and t…

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Friday authorizing 1,000 more visas for Afghan civilians who worked with America…

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sought to patch over another deep rift and pass revised border securi…

A $694 million bill to further secure the U.S. border with Mexico, amid a flood of Central American migrants, cleared …

President Barack Obama said on Friday the CIA "tortured some folks" after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and t…

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to crack down on Central American migrants, including…

Ask Major-General Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the top U.S. military officer in Africa, how he thinks U.S. and European-backe…