A breakthrough in the way energy is stored could lead to smaller class="mandelbrot_refrag"> electronics …

Lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago contain evidence of a Mars-sized planet that …

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University plan to anchor turbines in the Gulf Stream's fast-moving waters off the…

Current theory about the shape of the human face just got a big punch in the mouth. Two University of Utah researche…

The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and…

Eucalyptus leaves are the main food supply for Australia's koalas, but there is a lot more to the tree than that. …

A pro-marijuana political candidate in New Jersey could see his U.S. congressional bid go up in smoke after a legal ch…

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed new restrictions on abortion clinics into law on Thursday, a move his critics h…

More than 100 U.S. lawmakers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights groups on Thursday urged the Obama admi…

class="mandelbrot_refrag"> The Hershey Company is not sweet on the idea of Maryland lawmaker Stephen He…

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved an amendment that would put new restrictions on the way captive orca wh…

The defeat of House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor shifted the political ground under U.S. multination…

A high-ranking California lawmaker, Kevin McCarthy, emerged on Thursday as the leading contender in the Republican con…

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered a competency evaluation for a woman charged with throwing a shoe at former U.S. …

A federal judge in Nevada has ordered a competency evaluation for a woman charged with throwing a shoe at former U.S. …

The U.S. Homeland Security secretary sought to discourage Central American parents on Thursday from sending their chil…

Republican Representative Pete Sessions said on Thursday night he was dropping out of the race for House majority lead…

California lawmaker Kevin McCarthy emerged as the sole contender in the Republican contest to fill one of the top posi…

U.S. President class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Barack Obama on Friday will make his first visit to an Americ…

A federal judge could rule on Friday on whether gay marriages may be officiated in Wisconsin following her ruling last…

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed on Tuesday to ensure the world'…

A man arrested for allegedly breaking into actress Sandra Bullock's Los Angeles home pleaded not guilty on Tuesday…

A Georgia truck driver accused of triggering a fatal New Jersey car crash that critically injured actor Tracy Morgan …

Celebrity chef Paula Deen will launch a subscription-based, online network in September featuring her Southern home co…

Anarchic British comic actor Rik Mayall, who died suddenly this week aged 56, suffered an "acute cardiac event&qu…

The daughter of ailing 82-year-old deejay Casey Kasem has decided to withhold food, hydration and his usual medication…

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush marked his 90th birthday by skydiving out of a helicopter above Kennebunkport, …

Comedian Tracy Morgan, badly injured in a weekend highway crash, is showing signs of improvement in a New Jersey hospi…

Some San Francisco-area residents are flush with cash, thanks to an anonymous donor who has been hiding envelopes full…

A Baltimore man who police say routinely scammed class="mandelbrot_refrag"> restaurants by eating and t…

A kitchen employee at a women's halfway house has been charged with three counts of battery on a peace officer for…

At age 88, Edith Prague brought real-world experience to her job as commissioner of Connecticut's Department on Ag…

Luxury jeweler Fabergé filed a copyright lawsuit on Thursday against a New York City restaurant for what it called a &…

Thousands of bicyclists, many of them stark naked, poured into the streets of Portland, Oregon on Saturday night for t…