Wrapping up a classified 469-day mission, an unmanned Air Force space plane dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth on Saturday, executing an automated landing to close out the program's second test flight.
When daredevil Nik Wallenda took the first tightrope walk across the widest part of Niagara Falls, he was taking his measured steps on a cable that was guided into place by a rope that a south-central Pennsylvania company had earlier flown across the
Ron Paul has given up on becoming president, but loyal supporters are promising to promote the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's principles at the Republican national convention this summer, a potential complication for Mitt Romney's goal of a
Facing a group of social conservatives, his most restive constituency, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Saturday tried on some talking points from former opponent Rick Santorum, a hero to the far right during the Republican primaries th
Angela Merkel will have to “invent a way” to kick Greece out of the eurozone, a leading Greek politician has claimed, as all political parties promise to renegotiate the country’s €130bn (£105bn) bail-out agreement after tomorrow’s pivotal elections.
The United Nations said Saturday that it was suspending its observer mission in Syria because of the escalating violence, the most severe blow yet to months of effort by the United Nations to negotiate a peace plan and prevent Syria’s descent into ci
They started with mice that were infected with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes malaria. Those mice created antibodies in order to kill the parasites. The scientists identified the molecular components of this immune response, then
have occurred in Iceland four times in roughly the past thousand years, records indicate, the most recent being the deadly and remarkable eruption of Iceland's volcano Laki in 1783-84.
One of the main technical questions in the field of social networks, whose use is becoming more and more generalized, consists in locating the chain of reference that leads from one person to another, from one node to another.
But now tests on a small group of patients have shown that this is not the case. In fact, not only did the virus stay active during its journey through the bloodstream but it also homed in on cancer cells, ignoring nearby healthy tissue.
While attending Snow College in Ephraim, Utah, Cook and a friend were smoking cigarettes near a parked car when they were accosted by several police officers. Following the standard script, the officers claimed to smell marijuana and demanded to sear
According to the Vatican the US-backed Free Syrian Army rebels are sacking Christian churches, shooting Christians dead, broadcasting all Christians must be cleansed from the rebel-held villages, and even shooting priests.
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the "elitist theory of democracy" and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
The photojournalist who had his White House credentials revoked after he was unlawfully arrested for video recording a police encounter in Maryland last year filed a lawsuit this week.
Mannie Garcia is seeking at least $500,000 from the incident i
But he is serving a federal prison sentence for it. And the fact that everyone — including the U.S.Justice Department— agrees that he is legally innocent might not be enough to set him free. That he is innocent might not be enough to set him free.
They note that had the administration given auto unions the same treatment as other equivalent creditors, taxpayers right now would have been $3.5 billion in the black instead of $23 billion in the red.
Comcast has run out of patience with the avalanche of BitTorrent lawsuits. The ISP is refusing to comply with court-ordered subpoenas, arguing they are intended to “shake down” subscribers by coercing them to pay settlements.
The lawsuit comes from a mistaken drug raid (someone wrote down the wrong license plate) in which DEA agents pointed a gun at the head of an 11-year-old girl while she lay handcuffed on the floor. The judge ruled DEA agents did not act unreasonably i
Rajat K. Gupta, the retired head of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a former Goldman Sachs board member, was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy and securities fraud for leaking boardroom secrets to a billionaire hedge fund manager.
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The White House is partially lifting the lid of secrecy on its counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaida in Yemen and Somalia by formally acknowledging for the first time that it is conducting lethal attacks in those countries.
While publicly testifying about the incident Sullivan did not disclose that the additional agency employee implicated in the controversy was a supervisor and had access to security information about the visit.
It was late at night in October of last year when the strange email arrived. In fact, I only read it by accident and did not delete it by some miracle of fate.
Before the Euro Crisis erupted in 2009, I was just another economics professor, minding
Liberty For All's first order of business was supporting the primary campaign of a protege of Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for Kentucky's open 4th Congressional District seat.