Until last year, few knew that Haiti had precious minerals underground. Two mining companies have begun drilling for gold, copper and silver in the country’s northeastern mountains. They say testing…
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Monday the “Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is…
Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel testified Monday before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government about a report that the IRS spent about $50 million to hold…
N.J. governor must name replacement for Senate seat
An increase in casualties among Afghan civilians and security forces raises fears that foreign combat forces will be leaving behind a country in the throes of relentless violence when they…
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, comparing a…
Holderdu1-i-syn If Holder really thought he could escape controversy, the last few weeks have reinforced how inescapable controversy has become for the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer. A furor over leak…
Young Turks look over wreckage after protests in Ankara, Turkey, on Sunday. Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is dismissing claims that he is a “dictator” as Taksim Square in…
Violent weather knocks down trees, utility lines in East
Brook Drum, founder and CEO of Printrbot, talks about his $299 portable 3-D printer. With the printers, users can make whatever they like, iPad stands, guitars, jewelry, someone even made…
A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They’re also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the “oversharing” that they see…
Report finds $50M spent for 220 IRS conferences
Joyce Chen says she doesn’t feel the need to “climb the ladder” in her career as an occupational therapist, enabling her to balance her life as a single parent to…
Medicaid expansion pits conservative legislators against governors
Athan Arnold helps to clear a yard of a neighbor in El Reno Okla. on Saturday after the house was destroyed by one of the tornados that swept through Central…
The decision involves “National Security Letters,” thousands of which are sent yearly by the FBI to banks, telecommunication companies and other businesses. The letters, an outgrowth of the USA Patriot…
The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke Saturday. The blaze threatened power lines Saturday after prompting mandatory…
Born without the use of its back legs, potbellied pig “Chris P. Bacon” was adopted by veterinarian Dr. Len Lucero who bought a special harness for the pig so it…
A new study shows that dogs and cats have a better chance at a long, healthy life in some states than in others. Louisiana and Mississippi offer the shortest average…
An Egyptian judge on Saturday released from jail policemen Awad Ismail, center, and Amin Mahmoud Salah, right, after an appeals court threw out their conviction and ordered a retrial in…
Government airstrikes and shelling Saturday destroyed several homes in the Barzeh district of Damascus, Syria.Local Council of Barzeh (Syria)/Associated Press The rockets targeted the Baalbek region, the latest sign that…
Company has plans to launch camera-enabled telescope in early 2015
A recently discovered dinosaur skeleton fossil dubbed Aurornis xui has prompted scientists to restore the fossil creature Archaeopteryx back to the bird family tree.Thierry Hubin/Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences…
Nupur Lala, then 14, reacts upon winning the National Spelling Bee in 1999. Now 28 and finishing a master’s degree with plans to enroll in medical school, she is credited…
Patrick Peters, portraying a Confederate captain, stands by an artillery piece at a ridge above the field of Pickett’s Charge, in Gettysburg, Pa. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected…
John Lawton, a pilot from Wadsworth, Ohio, on Monday will attempt to make 90 flying passages across the U.S.-Canadian border in his Cessna 172 to mark his 90th birthday. Lawton…
Satellite data since the early 1980s have shown a flourishing of foliage worldwide, and scientists have suspected this change may be due partly to the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide,…
The bill’s sponsor, Democratic Rep. Greg Harris, gave an emotional testimony before lawmakers, explaining that he simply didn’t have the 60 votes the measure needed to pass and wouldn’t be…
