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A federal judge has ruled that a government agency must pick up the pace in approving, rejecting species for the endangered list.

People respond preferentially to pictures of animals, according to a new study.

Power companies in Southern California restored electricity to most customers by early Friday after a massive blackout on Thursday left nearly 5 million people in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico in the dark.

Mel Gibson is reportedly making a movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The actor, who has been labeled an anti-Semite thanks to a number of hateful rants, will team with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas for the historical work

A 9/11 conspiracy film festival called 9/11 Reclaiming the Truth, Reclaiming our Future, is underway in California, questioning the official version of the events of Sept. 11.

Astronomers have outdone themselves by doing the (seemingly) unimaginable: Discovering an invisible exoplanet.

Complete coverage of Thursday's Blackout in California, Arizona and Mexico, which stalled flights and cut power to five million people.

Stanford University’s hospital in California on Thursday has confirmed that a medical privacy breach has led to the online posting of electronic medical records of 20,000 emergency rooms patients.

A report on the other relevant cases of patient information breach that took place in the U.S. in the recent past.

Scientists have discovered an “invisible” planet for the first time by observing how its gravity affects the other planet in the system.

Astronomers believe they have found an invisible planet, one that was never glimpsed before, revolving around its orbit in irregular intervals.

United States recorded the second hottest summer this year, and the hottest in 75 years, government weather experts said Thursday.

A medical privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. has led to the public posting of medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, which includes names and diagnosis codes, on a commercial Web site for nearly a year, as confirmed by the hospital.

A massive blackout caused by human failure left nearly 5 million people without power in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, and officials said many residents may be out of service for a day or more.

Almost six years after ceasing operations, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a seven-ton research satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011.

In the San Francisco Bay area where tolerance is king, it is a rare politician willing to clamp down on citizens who let it all hang out.

Two lawsuits by three Chinese dissidents and a human rights group accusing Cisco Systems Inc. of abetting imprisonment and torture could have far-reaching impact on how U.S. technology companies conduct business in authoritarian regimes.

The FBI conducted a dramatic raid today on a California solar company, Solyndra, that received a loan of $527 million from the Federal Financing Bank (FFB), a subsidiary of the U.S. Treasury. The FBI raid followed the filing of Solyndra’s bankruptcy yesterday.

Imagine, for a moment, that some errant instinct prompted you to want to watch an independent film called Danielle Staub Raw, which features the erstwhile Real Housewife of New Jersey engaged in certain X-rated acts. You probably wouldn’t want anyone to know that you were spending your free time watching Danielle Staub Raw. And you might prefer not paying for the movie. So it’s not too tough to discern the motivations of the more than 5,000 people who illegally downloaded the film anonymously t...

A massive power outage triggered by human error left well over a million people without electricity in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, power utilities said, warning service might not be restored until the next day.

San Diego-based power outage affecting 1.4 million customers