A new report from the General Accounting Office raises concerns about the safety inspections of the nation’s aging nuclear power plants. The unreleased report suggests that safety rule enforcement is…
Early projections by the Obama administration were optimistic that uninsured consumers would flock to sign up for health insurance once the state exchanges opened this month. The administration’s estimates weren’t…
That’s one takeaway from a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday that shows a record 74 percent of registered voters would like to see most members of Congress defeated in…
The Supreme Court appears ready to support Michigan’s constitutional amendment barring race from being considered as a factor in college admissions. Affirmative action protesters rallied before the court heard the…
Iran is offering to let nuclear inspectors visit its nuclear facilities to verify its claims that its nuclear program is peaceful. The proposal was included in a proposal offered Tuesday…
Tuesday morning’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed more than 100 in central Philippines on the island of Bohol. Rescuers say they expect to find few survivors at this time.Associated Press The three…
Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to a House GOP meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington. The federal government remains partially shut down and faces…
The tough positions laid out by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew jeers from opposition lawmakers, and the Palestinians, already wary of his intentions, questioned his commitment to peace. Under heavy…
Al-Libidu1-i-syn Abu Anas al-Libi was grabbed in a military raid in Libya on Oct. 5. He’s due to stand trial in Manhattan, where he has been under indictment for more…
Two of the winners – Eugene Fama, 74, and Lars Peter Hansen, 60 – teach at the University of Chicago. The third, Robert Shiller, 67, is a professor at Yale…
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., hopes to have a plan in place to reopen the federal government and raise the nation’s debt limit by the time congressional leaders…
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appeared with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, at a news conference following a tour of the New EastCoast Arms Collectors Associates arms fair in Saratoga Springs,…
Simon Schorno, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus, said the assailants snatched the seven aid workers from their convoy near the town of Saraqeb…
Reid expresses ‘optimism,’ but no deal struck on the horizon
The work is not nearly enough to prove a link, but it adds to “the biological plausibility” that BPA might affect fertility and other aspects of health, said Dr. Linda…
Rancher Heath Ferguson said the storm killed 96 percent of his herd of 100 black Angus and Limousin cattle, a hit worth about $250,000. He said total losses topped more…
Love the outdoors but think you’d love it even more while watching the Outdoor Channel? How about an outdoor entertainment system replete with a 201-inch television that rises out of…
Partial government shutdown delays the release of exact size
Peak Design founder Peter Dering wears new clothing received from Buck Mason at his office in San Francisco. A younger generation of affluent, educated engineers and designers is starting to…
Enio Guarnieri of São Paulo, Brazil, keeps his blue-and-white van or Kombi in his cluttered garage. He bought the vehicle a year ago to stoke childhood memories. When he was…
At least 34 people drowned in Maltese waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa when a boat packed with hundreds of Syrians and Palestinians capsized on Friday, the same…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, leans in toward Afghan President Hamid Karzai as they say goodbye at the end of a news conference announcing a tentative agreement between…
The decision comes the same day the International Energy Agency predicted the United States would overtake Russia next year to become the world’s largest oil producer outside OPEC, renewing questions…
Human Rights Watch said the offensive against 14 pro-regime villages in the province of Latakia was planned and led by five Islamic extremist groups, including two linked to al-Qaida. Other…
Environmentalists and some state officials are concerned about how an oil spill response was handled recently. State officials say they weren’t told for days about an oil spill on a…
