Experienced skydiver Felix Baumgartner hopes to take the leap of his life on Tuesday, attempting the highest, fastest free fall in history. If he survives, the man dubbed "Fearless Felix" could be the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
President Chavez won re-election and a new endorsement of his socialist project, surviving his closest race yet after a bitter campaign in which the opposition accused him of using oil wealth and control of state institutions to his advantage.
Turkey’s parliament authorized the Turkish government to take military action against Syria, as the international community scrambled to defuse tensions heightened by a Syrian artillery strike a day earlier in which 5 Turkish civilians died.
A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police vehicles on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens,
Researchers have identified a species of puny dinosaur so odd looking — quills like a porcupine, a parrot-like beak and fangs like a vampire — it probably deserved a small part in “Jurassic Park.”
“At times, the government has to look at what you have to do to stop an attack — stop it before it happens. Part of our defense has to consider offensive measures.”
But council opponents of dispensaries said they would try to find other ways to shut down marijuana shops by using laws that are already on the books. Councilman Englander called on the city to prosecute medical marijuana businesses for violating
That conversion will give the state’s battered treasury an unexpected windfall and pump 1,000 prison jobs and several hundred construction jobs into northwestern Illinois.
“This prison they spent a lot of money on and hoped to use as an economic e
The fact that a police officer was caught on video sucker punching a woman for no apparent reason wasn’t very surprising. We’ve seen that scene one too many times. But that it only took 3 days for officials to announce they would fire the cop
Researchers at University of Huntsville in Alabama say they are using "Dilithium Crystals" in a new fusion impulse engine that could cut the travel time to Mars down to as little as six weeks, not the six months it takes now.
All underwater homeowners eventually come to a crossroads: Either continue funneling money into a home that costs more than it's worth or strategically default –– ending their payments and waiting for the lender to foreclose.
The USS George Washington and the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs), a flotilla of five ships and more than 10,000 Navy personnel are now operating in the conflict ridden South China Sea area.
A British nonprofit has a novel idea for getting kids interested in computer programming, a computer that fits in a pocket and costs less than the latest video game, it's called Raspberry Pi which is looks like a leftover scrap from electronics recy
We're currently in the middle of what is known as "Golden Week", a week that mainland Chinese like to travel home or go on vacation (hence the crazy images we brought you last week of huge traffic jams on China's intercity motorways).
During a debate over regulation, Mitt Romney took a hard tack to the middle, extolling the values of good regulation, and saying that Dodd-Frank was a major "kiss" to New York banks.
When a tax slave sexts an underage girl, he may end up getting arrested, coerced into taking a plea deal, and featured on the (now defunct) show, "To Catch a Predator."
The French government is trying to reign in its deficit by jacking up taxes, including the capital gains tax, which it wants to bring to the same level as the tax on income earned by the sweat of your brow—an old philosophical pillar of the French le
The senseless Batman killings in Aurora, Colorado, as well as those that occurred years earlier in Columbine a few miles away, have something in common with the number one cause of overdose deaths in the United States and an important potential cause
We think of space as a big empty expanse, but closer to Earth, the space just beyond the outer reaches of our atmosphere are teeming with satellites and broken bits of space debris.
The population working exclusively from home increased from 4.8 percent of all workers to 6.6 percent from 1997 to 2010, according to a new report from the Census.