Landsat 8 is sending more than 400 data-filled images per day back to the EROS center north of Sioux Falls, where they will be archived and made available for free…
JAYCEE DUGARD Dugard was abducted in June 1991 on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe, California. Then 11, she was held for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy…
Brothers Onil Castro, Ariel Castro and Pedro Casto were arrested Tuesday after three women who disappeared in Cleveland a decade ago were found safe Monday. The brothers are accused of…
Scientists who compared DNA samples from people in different parts of the continent found that most had common ancestors living just 1,000 years ago. The results confirm decade-old mathematical models,…
Sarah Davis, co-owner of Fashionphile.com, poses with her bags in a company warehouse in the Carlsbad, Calif. The Internet company sells rare, vintage, and discontinued previous owned bags and is…
Robel Phillipos, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was released on $100,000 bond while he awaits trial for allegedly lying to federal investigators probing the April 15…
Ethnic Baluch separatists who have waged a bloody insurgency trying to win independence for the vast, sparsely populated province of Baluchistan are seeking to derail the vote with a campaign…
I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them, Hill said before U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo. I had an economic system imposed on me.…
Heres a look at how some of historys most well-known criminals have been buried over the years: OSAMA BIN LADEN Bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror…
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A Syrian man, wrapped in a Syrian flag bearing the portrait of President Bashar Assad, walks past police Monday during an anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the UN office in…
Neighbor Charles Ramsey speaks to media near the home in Cleveland where three missing women were rescued Monday. Cheering crowds gathered on the street where police said Amanda Berry, Gina…
The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, getting support from Republicans and Democrats alike. But opposition from some conservatives who view it as a tax…
I dare you, Class of 2013, to do better. I dare you to dream bigger, Obama said. In a sunbaked stadium filled with more than 57,000 students, friends and relatives,…
President Barack Obama on Sunday told graduates of Ohio State University to rise above the cynicism and dysfunction many see griping the country during the spring commencement in Ohio Stadium…
Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles believed to…
Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains. Officials expected full…
As Denmark celebrates the philosophers 200th birthday today, Marie Moeller has found her version of Either/Or featuring strobe lights, rave music and child-size puppets being performed in schools…
Diane Nott, of Elyria, Ohio, holds a gerbil Saturday before the society’s annual New England pageant in Bedford, Mass. The small rodents were judged on body type and color, plus…
A young man who chose not to give his name sizes up an assault-style rifle during the National Rifle Association’s annual convention Friday in Houston.Associated Press/Steve Ueckert We will never…
A study of 392 prime-time-scripted programs on broadcast networks shown during the month after Vice President Joe Bidens January meeting with entertainment industry executives about the topic revealed that 193…
Actor Alan Alda enlists the help of Sujata Pawagi during a Communicating Science class on the campus of Stony Brook University in New York. The film and television star is…
A new federal report blames a combination of problems for the decline of honeybees in the United States since 2006. Experts say having so many causes makes it harder to…
The renewed violence came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged at a news conference that regular payments his government has received from the CIA for more than a decade would…
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said around 4,000 people were fleeing from the predominantly Sunni southern parts of the Mediterranean city of Banias amid fears that pro-government gunmen…
