“It looks kind of like a fuzzball … kind of like a cross between a teddy bear and a house cat,” says Kristofer Helgen, the Smithsonian Institution’s curator of mammals,…
The share of people who said they believe texting or emailing while driving is a very serious threat declined only slightly over the same period, from 87 percent in 2009…
Explorer Steve Libert thinks these timbers protruding from the bottom of Lake Michigan might be the bowsprit from the Griffin, a long-lost ship commanded by French explorer La Salle. The…
Residents march in protest over recent violence in Goma, Congo, on Saturday. Congolese soldiers supported by U.N. forces fought rebels in the country’s deteriorating east for hours early Saturday, officials…
50 years later, thousands commemorate in Washington, D.C.
A smoky haze blankets Virginia Street headed south from the main downtown casino strip in Reno, Nev., on Friday as health district officials raised an air-quality alert to the “red”…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who helped build Microsoft into a technology empire and then struggled to prevent it from crumbling under his own leadership, will retire within the next 12…
Fire rages out of control in the Stanislaus National Forest on Thursday in California. A wildfire outside Yosemite National Park nearly quadrupled in size Thursday, prompting officers to warn residents…
The president made the comments in a taped interview with CNN. The conflict in Syria “is something that is going to require America’s attention and hopefully the entire international community’s…
The spy station’s existence was noted in documents that Edward Snowden downloaded in 2012 while he worked at the National Security Agency and leaked to The Guardian, the Independent ‘s…
Twin car bombs killed dozens in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, Friday. The bombings are a reminder of how polarized the country has become because of Syria’s civil war.Bilal Hussein/Associated…
President Barack Obama warned Republican lawmakers not to try to force a government shutdown to stop funding for his signature health care overhaul. Obama is on a two-day bus tour…
“Very rare instances of willful violations of NSA’s authorities have been found,” the agency said in a statement. It said none of the abuses involved violations of the Foreign Intelligence…
A sheet of the U.S. Postal Service’s new stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.Charles Dharapak/Associated Press Almost 50 years later, Lewis returned to that day as…
Matthew Dyer, who was dragged from his tent by a bear a month ago, said he wouldn’t have traveled to the remote Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador if…
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s request to begin hormane treatment so he can live as a woman could spur a showdown with the military. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence at…
A military jury found U.S. Maj. Nidal Hasan killing of all charges Friday was convicted on all charges in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 dead in…
“Some of them came down with similar symptoms and passed away,” said Khaled Saleh, a spokesman for the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army, which the United States…
San Diego residents are gathering signatures on petitions to recall Mayor Bob Filner, who has been accused of sexually harassing several women. The City Council will consider a tentative agreement…
A letter from 80 Republicans asked Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to resist any spending bills that would accommodate the new health care law, which is nearing a critical stage of…
Egypt’s tourism industry has been hit hard by the unrest that has gripped the country since the government crackdown on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.Manu Brabo/Associated Press Riots and…
A file photo photo provided by the Institute for Science and International Security shows suspected cleanup activities at a building alleged to contain a high explosive chamber used for nuclear…
Muellerdu1-i-syn Mueller sees terrorism as a shifting landscape, evolving from Osama bin Laden’s global brand in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks to the splintering threats arising in the…
In this undated file photo provided by the Army, Pfc. Bradley Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick.Associated Press file photo Manning’s gender-identity struggle was brought up…
Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil says foreign fighters and their foreign backers are responsible for a purported chemical attack on rebel forces in a Damascus suburb this week.Hassan Ammar/Associated…
The final transcripts of recordings made by President Richard M. Nixon show future presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush phoned Nixon to offer support shortly after the president addressed the…
President Barack Obama addresses a packed house at the University of Buffalo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 in Buffalo, New York. The president was on a bus tour of Western New…
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 85, was taken to a military hospital near Cairo Thursday after his release from prison. Egypt ordered the former president to be place in house…
Military police inspect cars arriving for Thursday’s court proceedings in the trial of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan in the fatal shootings of 123 at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.Tony…
