Using a racially derogatory term, Al Qaeda's second-in-command disparaged US President-elect Barack Obama in an apparent effort to deflate high expectations among Muslims that relations between the United ...
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China has stepped up computer espionage against the US government and American businesses, according to a Washington congressional panel.
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It had been a very special treat: a Monday night trip with his father to watch the Buffalo Bills. After sleeping in the next morning, 13-year-old Joshua Dusinberre and his little brother, Dylan, were riding home to his mother's house when their car
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The U.S. Defense Department told Congress it could ill-afford more top-of-the-line F-22 fighter aircraft than now in the pipeline, partly to protect another Lockheed Martin Corp fighter, the multinational F-35. Continued purchases of the radar-evadi
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A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. Cheney, Gonzales an
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November 20th begins the 32nd annual Great American Smokeout. While smoking is an addiction, and thus difficult or even near impossible to stop, there are many reasons to quit --- and I shouldn't have to tell you them.
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Democratic leaders in Congress sidetracked legislation to bail out the auto industry Thursday and demanded the Big Three develop a plan assuring the money would make them economically viable.
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In the first hearing on the government's justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release.
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Wall Street doubled down on its losses on Thursday, just a day after financial markets closed at their lowest point in nearly six years.
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First-time filings for unemployment benefits shot up to their highest level since July 1992 last week, rising 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 and punctuating the struggling state of the U.S. labor market, government data showed Thursday.
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Obama has promised to create a White House Office of Urban Policy. What will this look like? Who will run it? Dana Goldstein November 18, 2008 There is a certain vogue gathering around urban issues.
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A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion-dollar mansions, and injured more than two dozen people, authorities said Tuesday.
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A federal appeals court has decided that a painting forcibly auctioned by Nazi officials should remain with the estate of the late Jewish art dealer who lost it.
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An FBI agent was shot and killed Wednesday while serving a warrant at a home near Pittsburgh. The agent, Sam Hicks, was shot about 6 a.m. in Glenshaw, about 10 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, said FBI Special Agent William Crowley, a spokesman for th
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When Gary Laursen began working in the transportation industry four decades ago, he had a pretty good idea of what it would take to retire comfortably.
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