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The Perseid and the Delta Aquarid meteor showers will both light up the sky later this week in a double show with anywhere between 15 and 30 shooting stars visible per hour under clear, dark skies.

The 45-foot mother whale swam three miles up the river inland with her 15-foot baby a month ago as a detour from their northward trek from breeding grounds in Baja California.

Some of the largest pension funds and investment firms have urged President Barack Obama and Congress to resolve the deficit impasse and avoid inflicting "pain and hardship" on the nation.

A scene from the clip is widely used by scientists to evoke sadness in subjects.

While some people are not quite convinced by the idea that there could be other civilizations in our galaxy, some are very much optimistic regarding the same, and so are the scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). But a new analysis has denied the possibility.

Private spaceflight company Space Exploration (SpaceX) is on its way to become the first private company to dock with the International Space Station.

African killer bees, aided by human transport, have now reached as far north as Central California, after an attack on a 70-year-old man. Are they headed for your county or town next?

Cash is not all that is coming from generous people to Joplin, Missouri, which is struggling to recover a crippling May 22 tornado.

A 63-year-old California man with a hernia plunged a butter knife into his abdomen in an attempt to fix the problem, and later put a lit cigarette in the wound, police said on Tuesday.

Goodwin Liu, a University of California law professor whose confirmation to a federal appeals court was blocked in the U.S. Senate, has been nominated to serve as a justice on the top court in California.

Singer and Missouri native Sheryl Crow is auctioning her vintage Mercedes convertible to help rebuild ten schools destroyed or damaged by a deadly May tornado in the town of Joplin.

Deluxe and Technicolor, historic rivals in Hollywood's post-production business, have announced a new agreement in which each will concede and subcontract a segment of its business to the other.

It's not too late to find investor-friendly exchange-traded funds specializing in safe-haven currencies and precious metals, experts say, though the August 2 deadline for raising the U.S. debt ceiling is days away. For more intrepid individuals, there are even some tech ETFs that seem to be holding their own.

Oregon Democratic Congressman David Wu, accused of an unwanted sexual encounter with a campaign donor's teenage daughter, said on Tuesday he will resign his seat to defend himself against "these very serious allegations."

The co-founder of Passages Malibu treatment center thinks that Amy Winehouse?s membership in the 27 Club may have been by design, not just an eerie coincidence.

Victor Castro Jr. grew up in a modest, three-bedroom house in the heart of a middle-class neighborhood in suburban Phoenix.

The 13 year-old son of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is out of the hospital after a serious beach accident.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced today a list of nearly 3,700 retail offices to be studied and potentially closed as early as November and replaced by new Village Post Offices in an effort to compensate for losses.

A study finds that climate change could increase the frequency of fires in Yellowstone National Park, resulting in a drastically changed landscape that could alter the entire ecosystem.

African killer bees, which have been the stuff of science fiction films, have now been confirmed as far north as Central California, after an attack on a 70-year-old man. However, bee specialists say the killer bees were probably trucked-in, and it isn't likely that they moved that far north on their own.