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MoreA Tale of Two WintersWinter's Not Finished With Eastern U.S. YetThis Is the City Hardest Hit By the Awful WinterThe brutal winter of 2013-2014 wreaked havoc on roads, homes, and most likely, your finances. It’s bee...

You are not imagining things: there’s a lot more celebrity skin on display these days. Like actress Maggie Q (above), who forgot a few essentials at the premiere for Divergent the other night, not the least being her m...

There's a new app from Tribune Digital Ventures. It's called Newsbeat.  You open the app and it gives you a personalized audio newscast.  It starts with weather and traffic conditions, and then dives into news stories ...

(Phys.org) --Students at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have created a Scrabble-playing robot who is quite remarkable, not because it plays well but because it does not play well, and talks with all the human s...

Suspected transgender serial killer Donna Perry is expected to claim that the murders she is accused of committing would have been carried out when she was a man and her current identity shouldn't be held responsible for...

China's lunar rover still has eyes and ears but can't move around.

So the BlackBerry Z30 is not quite the newest smartphone in the market at the moment, where it was first made official in November 2013 via Verizon Wireless. Basically, for those who are interested in picking up the Blac...

The EXT file system (short for Extended File System) and it’s family members of EXT2, EXT3, and EXT4, are the file systems used by Linux. Mac users who work with multiple platforms may notice that OS X is unable to mou...

If you, like me, have published an ungodly number of tweets over the years, scrolling back to find out what your very first ever tweet was is about as tedious as building a sandcastle one grain at a time. But now, thanks...

The Finnish Air Force is increasing surveillance of its airspace in light of escalating tensions between Russia and neighboring NATO countries over Moscow's annexation of Crimea, according to a Finnish Air Force commande...

Mike George, who won $144,000 on "Deal or No Deal," put half into a youth team whose alumni include Syracuse's Tyler Ennis among nine players in this year's N.C.A.A. tournament.     

Russia doesn't want a nuclear Iran either -- not to mention a possible U.S. military strike to prevent it.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban insurgents staged a multi-pronged attack on a police station in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province early Thursday, using a suicide bomber and gunmen to lay siege to the station, ...

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese dog breeder says a property developer has paid 12 million yuan ($2 million) for a Tibetan mastiff.     

Battle Over Internet Gun Sales Heats Up On Beacon Hill     

Police in Houston rescued more than 100 immigrants Wednesday from a suspected stash house where they were being held against their will.

The defendant's testimony in a stilled Manhattan courtroom Wednesday took a federal jury half a world and many years away, to a mountain cave in the desolation of Afghanistan, to the hours after the September 11, 2001, t...

Malaysian officials confirmed they received more radar data from other countries about the missing Flight MH370 but insisted they were "not at liberty" to release the information. American and British...

Russia is violating international law, but the response should be diplomacy, not force.     

12:15 p.m. -- The battle for Ohio The NCAA Tournament kicks off with No. 6 Ohio State vs. No. 11 Dayton (CBS), as these two Buckeye State schools meet in...

High bids from Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas LLC made up more than one-third of the $850.8 million total at Wednesday's federal oil lease sale for the central Gulf of Mexico. It also was the first sale since the government ...