05.04.12 |
Penn State alumni who have been waiting since early November for change at the top will find out Friday if they got it, as results of online balloting for three alumni-elected seats on the university's board of trustees will be announced in State ...
05.04.12 |
Five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, including the self-proclaimed mastermind, are headed back to a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday, more than three years after President Barack Obama put the case on hold in a ...
05.04.12 |
A new report from an environmental group says New York's oversight of waste disposal from existing natural gas-drilling operations is too lax, making it virtually impossible to track how much waste is produced and how drillers dispose of it.
05.04.12 |
U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in April for the second straight month, evidence of an economy still growing only sluggishly. The unemployment rate dipped, but only because more people gave up looking for work.
05.03.12 |
The up-and-down race between President Obama and Mitt Romney continues to bounce around.
05.03.12 |
The National Day of Prayer, which is marked today, falls amid a resurgence of faith in the public realm.
05.03.12 |
One of the most iconic images in art history - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.
05.03.12 |
In letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.
05.01.12 |
A federal judge in Austin has stopped Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from participating in the state's Women's Health Program.
05.01.12 |
The most visible organizing effort by anti-Wall Street groups since Occupy encampments were dismantled last fall are being planned for May Day, a change from recent years when protests on the international workers' holiday focused on immigrant ...
