Beginning this week, the City of Detroit will shut the doors of its police stations to the public for 16 hours a day. Here are ...

The Republican presidential candidates have participated in 13 debates since last May, with each event seeming to have a different frontrunner. As the Iowa Caucus ...

Critics have long complained that instead of sticking to strong positions on issues such as immigration, federal spending, and health care reform, Republican presidential candidate ...

Bil Keane, whose comic strip The Family Circus has appeared in newspapers since 1960, passed away last week at the age of 89.

Delivering a eulogy, Mona Simpson, the sister of Steve Jobs, shared the Apple CEO's final words: "Oh wow.

Apple's iPod, the MP3 player that revolutionized portable digital music, turned 10 recently. Here are some high points from the device's decade of ...

While recent federal attempts to impede women's access to safe, legal abortions have failed to pass the Senate, at the state and local level ...

Dr Pepper Ten, a new diet soda from the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, is being marketed to men with the slogan "It's not for ...

As Occupy Wall Street enters its fifth week, its numbers are growing and the movement is beginning to take shape. 

Longtime 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney made his final appearance on the show Sunday. 

After 31 years together, the Athens, GA–based band R.E.M. has announced it is breaking up.

Since announcing his American Jobs Act in a speech before Congress this month, President Obama has been traveling the country to promote the plan.

Space scientist Stewart David Nozette pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to sell classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy.

Former vice president Dick Cheney promised to have 'heads exploding' with his new memoir, In My Time. Here are some revelations from the book:

Emergency management professionals questioned the readiness of Washington, D.C., New York, and other cities after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit Virginia.

Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, is putting $1.25 million of his own money toward the creation of ...

Every year around this time, American states hold fairs to celebrate the agriculture and industry that make them unique.

The discovery of a new fossil suggests the archaeopteryx may have been more of a bird-like dinosaur than a dinosaur-like bird.

According to scientists, flooding and wet weather have led to unusually high mosquito populations this summer, and the accompanying heat wave has resulted in numerous ...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, is under scrutiny following reports that its paper The News Of The World hired ...