Jeremy White

In the wake of Sept. 11, 2011, the New York Police Department has seen an unprecedented expansion of its surveillance and intelligence activities that includes actively spying on Muslim New Yorkers.

Photos of engineers surveying the damage to a cherished national monument

The widely prescribed antidepressant Celexa can cause potentially fatal disruptions to heart rhythms when taken in high doses, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

The 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rippled through Washington, D.C. on Tuesday cracked the Washington monument and broke loose pieces of the National Cathedral, leading authorities to close the two symbolically and architecturally significant sites.

A federal judge said that parts of Alabama's new immigration law could be unconstitutional, citing a controversial provision that requires police to check the status of immigrants they detain.

A growing number of scandals suggests there risks exist when a school district relies solely on test scores to evaluate academic proficiency and skills mastery.

An earthquake is low on the list of potential perils for the residents of Arlington, Va. and Washington, D.C. But after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake convulsed the region on Tuesday, an initial wave of fear was for the most part replaced by incredulity.

the Russian company Orbital Technologies is building a space hotel that will accommodate up to seven celestial travelers.

People who live in earthquake-prone areas like San Francisco or Tokyo are accustomed to the threat of the ground shaking, but the residents of Arlington, Va. and Washington, D.C. reacted with surprise and alarm today as a 5.8 magnitude earthquake convulsed the region.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that tremors emanating from an earthquake in Virginia did not cause any deaths, injuries or significant damage to city infrastructure and buildings.

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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake emanating from Virginia caused more anxiety than physical damage in New York City, where employees at City Hall returned to work after a brief evacuation.

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake emanating from Virginia caused more anxiety than physical damage in New York City, where employees at City Hall returned to work after a brief evacuation.

Freshly announced Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is already showing signs of vaulting to the top of the GOP field, with a new national poll registering a double digit lead for the Texas governor.

Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his pledge to not raise taxes by telling an audience at an Iowa state fair that, "corporations are people, my friend." An ongoing legal debate asks what rights we should give to people who aren't human -- from corporations to fetuses to, perhaps someday soon, machines.

More than three in five Virginia public schools were labeled as failing after falling short of a benchmark established under No Child Left Behind, a drastic increase that led the state's superintendent to call for an overhaul of the education law.

The roots of the debt deal showdown: Ascendant Tea Party faction Republicans pushed their case, remained remarkably cohesive and defiant, and essentially won the U.S. debt deal crisis.

Resounding success in the early stages of an experimental technique to treat leukemia has researchers talking about a breakthrough in combatting cancer not with radiation or drugs, but with cells drawn from patients' immune systems.

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The man charged with killing and dismembering an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy shows signs of a psychiatric disorder that includes schizoid tendencies, according to one of the defendant's lawyers.

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have made strides in treating leukemia patients with a new technique that engineers blood cells to attack the cancer, according to studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine.

A U.S. Department of Energy panel issued a report recommending more stringent safeguards on hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as 'fracking," a potentially hazardous process used to harvest natural gas from underground shale formations.

Power grids, GPS systems and satellites could be among the technologies affected by surges of energy released by the sun's swelling magnetic field, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Republicans in Wisconsin's Senate emerged from Tuesday's special recall elections with their majority intact, parrying four out of six Democratic challengers who sought to ride a wave of voter anger at a controversial law that sharply curbed unions.

NASA has given seven different private space firms contracts worth a combined $10 million, signaling the growing importance of private firms capable of supporting NASA's efforts in the post-shuttle era.

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A rise in the number of studies published in scientific journals has been accompanied by a surge in retraction notices, casting into doubt scientific findings that influence everything from government grants to prescriptions written for patients, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Moving to bolster private spaceflight in the post-shuttle era, NASA handed out a combined $10 million to seven firms vying to build commercial spaceships.