Thursday January 15, 2009 Updated 9:20 PM PST
An Airbus 320 jetliner crashed into the Hudson River after a flock of birds apparently disabled both engines, but rescuers pulled the more than 150 aboard into boats before the plane sank. 9:19 PM
Northeasterners got socked Thursday with the same subzero temperatures -- more than 30 below zero in some spots -- that brought teeth-chattering misery to the nation's midsection.
As House leaders unveiled legislation for an unprecedented $825 billion economic stimulus, UC Berkeley economist Christina Romer said she never dreamed that her scholarship on the Great Depression would be useful in making current economic policy.
The parents of an Iraq veteran who allegedly committed suicide after being turned away from a Department of Veterans Affairs facility said they've agreed to a $350,000 settlement.
The Senate approved a major expansion of wilderness areas nationwide Thursday, protecting more than 2 million acres of public land from drilling, logging and mining, including 735,000 acres across California.
A road atlas and campground directory discovered in the airplane cockpit of an Indiana man helped lead authorities to the remote Florida campsite where he was finally arrested.
The Bush administration is removing gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains from the federal endangered...
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The state of Alaska will go to court to challenge a federal decision to protect beluga whales in Cook Inlet under the Endangered...
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The top Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee demanded Wednesday that the VA explain how it allowed software glitches to...
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The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is supposed to be about change. But it's the cash money, not politics, that may be...
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A federal judge ordered the military Wednesday to release one of its first Guantanamo Bay detainees, a 21-year-old man who has been...
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Sexually spread diseases - for years on the decline - are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government...
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With his world crumbling around him, investment adviser Marcus Schrenker opted for a bailout. However, his plan to escape personal...
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