Breaking yet another plane crash, this time a TransAsia plane crash-landed in a river directly after take off. This is seriously starting to get worrisome. How many planes have crashed now? What could be the cause of it all,...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief once tipped to become French president before a hotel worker in New York City accused him of sexual assault, went on trial in France on Monday in a separate case of allegedly procuring prostitutes. Strauss-Kahn,...
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 that sets up a battle with Republicans over programs to boost the middle class that are funded by higher taxes...
Documents show the FBI created a “Plan C” during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation under martial law, rounding up “subversives,” and interning...
While Obama is doing everything in his power to show that when it comes to commiserating with the Saudis, he is first in line, the US relationship with that "other" US ally in the region, Israel, is in a...
Citing unchecked climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, scientists Thursday moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. "It is now three minutes to midnight," said Kennette Benedict, the executive director and publisher...
This year, which marks the centenary of the publication of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, has been named the International Year of Light (link is external) and light-based technologies by the UN General Assembly. CERN is taking this opportunity...
Today Facebook has announced that they are reducing the distribution of posts that have been reported as hoaxes. Hoaxes are considered News Feed spam that includes scams or misleading news stories. An annotation is being added to posts that...
The U.S. has been waging economic, financial, trade, and political war against Russia and even kinetic war-by-proxy in Ukraine. Worryingly, nobody in power in the U.S. or Europe really seems willing to tell us exactly why. From the Russian point...
WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran confirmed Monday that one of its generals was among the dead in an Israeli airstrike that also killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Syria on Sunday, an announcement that added to the tension and unpredictability...
Shots were fired near US Vice-President Joe Biden's house in the state of Delaware, but he was away at the time, a Secret Service official has said. "A vehicle drove by the vice-president's residence at a high rate of speed...