The Secret Service has detained yet another intruder attempting to enter the White House, the 7th person to jump the White House fence this year. The man was apprehended by Secret Service agents and g…uard dogs before he could reach the doors of the building's North Portico.
Carol Folt, the university chancellor, with Tom Ross, the university president. She said the fake classes thrived for so long because it was hard for people to fathom that they could even exist.
Well that was fast! Less than 24 hours after a grainy preview for Avengers: Age of Ultron was leaked online, Marvel has surprised fans with the official movie trailer.
A South San Francisco company is reviving an experimental Ebola vaccine that it previously dropped, joining other companies and health agencies in the rush to contain the deadly disease in West Africa.
MEXICO CITY - The authorities on Wednesday provided a broad account of the apparent abduction of 43 college students last month in southern Mexico, saying that the police in a small city attacked them on orders of the mayor and his wife out of fear they ...
HONG KONG (AP) Smooth jazz star Kenny G insisted Thursday he's not a foreign provocateur supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, after Beijing signaled its displeasure over his inharmonious visit and repeated concerns about meddling by ...
A three-month-old baby was killed and seven other people were wounded on Wednesday evening when a Palestinian drove his car into a light rail train station near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem and ran over over passersby disembarking from the train.
Jordan's king seeks to prevent Jewish prayer on Temple Mount, Jordan's King Abdullah II equates radical ideology of Islamic State group with "Zionist extremism" • Palestinian Author…ity President Mahmoud Abbas stiffens punishment for Palestinians who sell land to outsiders.
BUFFALO - GOP challenger Rob Astorino hit Gov. Cuomo hard in a gubernatorial debate Wednesday night over the state of New York's economy, taxes and his handling of a state anti-corruption commission.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California officials agreed Wednesday to end a policy in which it segregated prison inmates after riots based on their race as a way to prevent further violence.
At work on a 787 Dreamliner. Costs for the 787 rose 3.9 percent over the last three months. Credit Randall Hill/Reuters. Continue reading the main story.
Biogen Idec Inc. said Wednesday that a patient who had taken its multiple sclerosis pill Tecfidera for more than four years died after getting a rare brain infection, sending shares of the Cambridge biotechnology company down sharply.
Look, email is awful. It's a mess. It's overwhelming. It's a shame spiral of things you should do, replies you should send, meetings you should attend and memos you should read all commingled with flight information, daily deals, newsletters, purchase ...
Twitter wants to gain a bigger presence in the lives of consumers, and so from today it's going behind the scenes of how we connect to our smartphone apps.
Twitter is hoping to embed itself as the authenticating heart of every app and service, with a new way to use phone numbers rather than usernames or email addresses a key part of its new Fabric mobile… platform for developers. Dubbed Digits, the system…
The one new feature you didn't expect from Apple's iPad Air 2? iFixit says the new device has a battery that's 15 percent smaller, yet Apple claims it still gets the same battery life.
Renee Zellweger, who has been at the center of a swirling pop culture debate over her new look, is chalking it up to "a different, happy, more fulfilling life.
OMG! Here Is An EPIC Snippet Of A New Taylor Swift Song! - We can't get enough of 1989 so far! Taylor Swift's new album isn't in stores until October 27th, but gurl is doing a DAYUM good j…ob at giving her fans a preview! Up next??! The country-turned-pop beauty has released 30 seconds of a BRAND NEW track off the compilation. While we're not sure what the track is called, we do know it makes us want to shake it off! LOLz! And isn&...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been told to testify in Ray Rice's appeal of his indefinite suspension, a person familiar with the case told the Associated Press on Wednesday night.
NEW YORK - The NBA might someday establish a draft lottery system that creates a greater deterrent to field non-competitive teams but those efforts were tabled on Wednesday when a reform proposal failed to garner enough support among the league's 30 ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. --- Hunter Strickland is having a rough October and the San Francisco Giants rookie reliever is beginning to have a hard time dealing with it.
Study researcher Svante Pääbo examines a 45,000-year-old femur from a Siberian man that is helping scientists pinpoint when Neanderthals and modern humans interbred.
Ancient human bones and its DNA analysis is shedding new light on the pre-history of Europe like when changes in skin color took place or when lactose tolerance occurred.
LONDON (AP) - A new study underscores the potential danger of airplane passengers infected with Ebola leaving West Africa: If there were no exit screening in place, researchers estimate that three people with the disease might fly out of the region each ...
CDC announces active post-arrival monitoring of travelers whose travel originates in Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea. These travelers are now arriving to the U.S. at one of five airports where entry… screening is being conducted by + U.S. Customs and Border Protection and CDC. Active post-arrival monitoring means that travelers without febrile illness or symptoms consistent with Ebola will be followed up daily by state and local health departments for 21 days from the date o...
Amber Vinson, one of two health care workers based out of Dallas that contracted Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan, is reportedly cleared of the virus.
