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A deadly earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hits the western Chinese region of Sichuan.

This incident will greatly strengthen the military-security apparat in the United States and Russia, helping to further demonize Muslims in general. But every political power structure that feeds on fear -- and which one...

On April 16 the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission asking for injunctive relief for the major wireless carriers not bothering to issue "regular, prompt security updates" to...

Two people die along with their pet dog after the single-engine aircraft crashes just metres from a house.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama and his national security team met today in the wake of the dramatic arrest Friday night of Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect of the terror attack at the Boston Marathon. The weekend m...

When you're sitting at an arraignment- squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder with alleged Russian mafia members and associates in a cyclopean 34-defendant gambling case -- it's hard not to fantasize how fun it would be to sit in...

A prison spokesman says 84 of the 166 captives had missed enough meals or become malnourished enough to meet the detention-center definition of a hunger strike.

Orbital Sciences Corp. has rescheduled the debut flight of its Antares rocket from Saturday to Sunday due to unacceptably high winds at the company's Wallops Island, Virginia, launch site. ->

WASHINGTON -- The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency -...

PLANO, Texas -- Veteran sportscaster Pat Summerall was remembered Saturday during a memorial service as "the voice of the NFL" and a venerated figure who maintained a humble approach despite the praise his broadcast work...

The internet is slowly drowning. Don't believe me? Try the following exercise: attempt to create an application or site that will reach a majority of internet users without having to worry about one large company standin...

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One suspect in this week's deadly Boston Marathon bombing was killed after a police shootout, and a second suspect, identified by officials as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remains at large and the subject of a manhunt, police said...

Last November, 's Titan Supercomputer, which is being used at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, earned the crown of World's Fastest Supercomputer. Now Oak Ridge hopes to bolster the performance of that supercomputer by buil...

Austin-based Community Cars hopes to begin building the Kenguru, a wheelchair-accessible single-passenger vehicle, later this year.

BOSTON -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard Saturday - apparently in no shape to be interrogated - as investigators tried to establish the motive fo...

Zac Efron may be loved by teenage girls around the world, but he's trying his best to step away from his "High School Musical" days and focus on becoming a more well-rounded actor. The 25-year-old has appeared in a handf...

After small fires were contained at the site of a massive West, Texas blast, a town official said today some residents are being allowed to return to their homes.

US Senator John Cornyn of Texas said the town's deputy fire marshal reports that 60 people remained unaccounted for.

CONCORD, N.H. -- Ralph Demicco has watched the surveillance footage of a man shopping around his store, leaning on the counter and calmly chatting with the clerk before buying the gun he used to take his own life later t...

'They told me my son was an extremist leader,' says Zubeidat Tsarnaeva One of the two men suspected of being behind the Boston Marathon bombings was under FBI surveillance as a suspected "extremist" for at least three ye...

Rise in homophobia worries Paris's gay community as protesters against Hollande's proposed reform take to streets on Saturday A large American wartime poster proclaiming "We can do it" hangs behind the bar at Les Souffle...