Security camera images showed what appeared to be Dhuhulow and three other gunmen firing coldly on shoppers as they made their way along store aisles after storming the upscale mall.…
The hole is an area in the atmosphere with low ozone concentrations. It is normally at its biggest this time of year. NASA says on average it covered 8.1 million…
The White House is denying that it is monitoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone calls. Merkel is demanding an explanation from the U.S. government, saying it “would be a serious…
Beijing is adopting new measures that will go into effect when smog levels reach high levels. The new measures will include requirements that factories shut down, limiting driving and suspending…
Human Rights Watch alleged that 82 people, at least 57 of them civilians, were killed by the unmanned aircraft and other aerial strikes in Yemen between September 2012 and June…
President Barack Obama’s administration is bringing in longtime adviser Jeffrey Zients to provide management advise on how to fix the federal government’s health exchange website. Programmers and others who helped…
France is the latest in a growing list of nations – Germany, Brazil and Mexico included – demanding explanations from Washington. A report published on Monday said the U.S. swept…
Several states are expected to allow federal workers who collected unemployment insurance during the government shutdown to keep both those benefits and the back pay they’re set to receive, according…
Matt Gentry/Associated Press<br><br>Google Inc. is developing a self-driving car, logging more than 400,000 miles in California road tests. A new study says switching to self-driving vehicles could eliminate most traffic…
The Syrian National Coalition appears to be getting support from its patrons in the Gulf for its demands of key guarantees before it consents to take part in peace talks.…
The parents of the 12-year-old Sparks, Nev., middle schooler who killed himself and a teacher Tuesday are cooperating with local police. Police say the 12-year-old got the handgun used in…
Further discipline problems within the United States’ nuclear missile force are coming to light. The latest revelation says four members of the missile force have been disciplined for breaches of…
One source of the troubles appears to be the testing procedures employed before the rollout three weeks ago. Several developers of the HealthCare.gov website told The Associated Press they were…
The outcome could answer a question left unresolved by the court’s 6-3 decision in Atkins v. Virginia, the 2002 case that spares the mentally disabled from the death penalty. The…
In a nationwide USA TODAY/Princeton Survey Research Poll, just 4 percent of those surveyed – equal to the margin of error – say Congress would be changed for the worse…
France is the latest foreign government to express anger about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs of foreign nationals’ telephone and electronic communications. U.S Ambassador to France Charles H. Rivkin…
A Sparks Middle School student killed math teacher Michael Landsberry and wounded two students before killing himself early Monday morning. Landsberry was shot while trying to protect several other students…
While Congress was arguing, President Barack Obama’s plan to expand coverage for the uninsured suffered a self-inflicted wound. A computer system seemingly designed by gremlins gummed up the first open…
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Nelly Mathov, 79, protests against the government shutdown outside the federal building in Los Angeles on Oct. 2. With the shutdown now over, many are wondering whether voters will retaliate…
An oil worker rides a ferry away from Freeman Island, a human-made island off the coast of Orange County, Calif., where oil companies have fracked from human-made islands and platforms…
Wreaths are seen March 6 in front of the Alamo where a gun-rights rally was held Saturday, breaking with tradition that had kept demonstrations off the hallowed ground.Eric Gay/Associated Press…
Software engineer and entrepreneur Jeff Lyon sits next to a computer showing the “Flagger” program he developed in San Jose, Calif. Lyon spent Labor Day weekend developing the software that…
