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Pictures from a camera mounted on the front of a derailed freight train show that the train went off the tracks after it struck a garbage truck that crossed the tracks while the train's horn was blasting warnings.

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada is banning nearly all exports to and imports from Iran.

By Jessica Wilder Olivia Newton-John's older sister, Rona Newton-John, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last month, died May 24 at age 70. "She was surrounded by the love of her four children-Fiona, Brett, Tottie and...

Museums house spectacular historical artifacts and works of art. But many museum buildings are pretty spectacular in their own right. A jury of experts from buildings database Emporis selected the world's most impressive...

A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook turned to the seemingly more hospitable stage of the All Things Digital technology conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, one week after facing a congressional grilling on the company's tax pra...

Facing a mounting investigation into her presidential campaign's alleged campaign finance improprieties, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) announced Wednesday morning that she won't seek reelection in 2014. Here's a quick ...

Police were evacuating people Tuesday evening at Disneyland's Toontown after a report of an explosion that appeared to have involved dry ice, authorities said.

According to The New York Times, two letters testing positive for ricin were apparently sent to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control group he founded late last week. At least one police officer investigating the let...

Toxic substances were aboard a train that crashed and exploded outside Baltimore, but officials said they were not burning

The Pentagon suffered a black eye yesterday when a classified report detailing Chinese hackers' access to weapons system design information was uncovered by The Washington Post. But the Defense Department says that even ...

PHOENIX (AP) -- A mother from Arizona accused of trying to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. had a court hearing Wednesday where her lawyer pushed for her release from a Mexico prison on the grounds that she was set up.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Democratic legislative leaders on Wednesday called for a delay in tax cuts that were enacted last session, saying it's needed to balance a $6.3 billion, two-year budget without shifting tax increas...

The wide array of wireless radio technologies used to get devices online may soon shrink as major players in the chip world start choosing the standards they will support for the internet of things.

The Indonesian carrier's customers can exchange unlimited texts via its service running on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data over the GSM network, doing away with the need for an Internet connection required for OT...

New York's new bike share system is compact and dense. Washington DC's is expansive and sparse. Seoul's is bifurcated. Paris's is comprehensive. The geographic footprint of a city's bike-sharing system can reveal both th...

What is it about Psy? The K-Pop sensation and ambassador of all things Gangnam Style is approaching 400 million YouTube views with his latest thrust-worthy hit, Gentleman, while adding serious won to his bank account wit...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has the mental capacity to represent himself at his murder trial, but more information is needed about his physical con...

About two dozen protestors staged a rally in front of Tribune Tower Wednesday as part of a "national day of action" to dissuade Tribune Co. from selling its newspapers to brothers Charles and David Koch, conservative bil...

The "Marketplace Fairness Act" is supposed to level the playing field between the traditional brick-and-mortar storefronts of the old economy and the online and catalog sales of the new economy, taking a simple problem a...

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GENEVA (AP) -- Switzerland said Wednesday it will allow its banks to skirt the country's strict client secrecy laws in order to end a long-running dispute with the United States over tax evasion by American clients with ...