Tropical Storm Lee's residual fury caused a renewed round of flooding across the northeast on Thursday, as rising waters forced the evacuations of some 120,000 people and killed at least six.
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was 11 years old. I can't say when exactly I realized how young that was to understand the enormity of the attacks. But 10 years removed, I see it. For me, the world isn't divided into before and after the attacks, because there is no before.
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.
Regulators are close to an agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to settle a case over disclosing their exposure to risky subprime loans, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Origin of humans up for debate, according to new papers.
Aggressive drugs could be more effective by without being combined to invasive surgery to prevent a common type of stroke, a new study has found.
Authorities in Carson City, Nev., are still searching for a motive in Tuesday's shooting rampage at an International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in that state. Five people, including three members of the National Guard, were killed in the attack before the lone gunman identified as Eduardo Sencion shot himself. He also wounded seven others, according to authorities.
As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approach, the United States has been emphasizing caution in case security problems arise.
In an order signed on Monday, Judge Ellen S. Huvelle of the United States District Court in Washington, has asked the Justice Department, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile USA, to file the joint plan by the due date and has ordered that the parties shall be prepared to discuss the prospects for settlement at a Sept. 21 status conference, according to reports.
Dozens of wildfires that have been burning in Texas for the past 10 months are maxing out fire officials' resources, but winds are beginning to blow in favor of firefighters who have managed to contain the largest inferno currently raging in the state. Fire officials on Wednesday said they have managed to get a handle of the fire in Bastrop County, which is about 30 percent contained.
As the December deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq approaches, President Barack Obama is navigating competing pressures from military officials who support keeping American troops in the country and ambivalent Iraqi officials.
By firing Carol Bartz, perhaps the best-known woman in Silicon Valley, Yahoo now has a new thing to search for: a new CEO, or perhaps in Yahoo lingo, a new Chief Yahoo.
In yet another lawsuit against AT&T and T-Mobile, Sprint filed Tuesday its own in an attempt to block AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile.
Seven years ago Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor for conceive a baby, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family for modern times.
There are raised concerns and fears that children from the same donor could share disease-causing genes that can spread through the general population, or possibly lead to accidental incest between half siblings who often live close to one another.
Tiger Woods' former mistress is suing the New York Post for printing damaging quotes about the death of her fiancee on 9/11
The Arizona Department of Corrections has instituted a one-time $25 fee for visitors fee in order to raise money for prison renewal and maintenance.
Advocates call for more regulation of the sperm bank industry
After a famous 37-year army career that included leading the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has been sworn in as director of the CIA.
A hacking scandal in the Netherlands has escalated, with Dutch government officials investigating whether a hacker who stole online security certificates also stole any sensitive information on Dutch citizens.
Sperm banks often mislead donors and recipients about the number of potential offspring produced through artificial insemination
Before the United States denounced Muammar Gaddafi's repressive reign and helped to topple him, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was enlisting Gaddafi's notoriously brutal security forces to question terrorism suspects, according to documents discovered in Qaddafi's compound.
