The early-​​​​morning slaughter of four Florida sib­lings at the hands of what author­i­ties say was their mother is an “almost unheard of” case, crime experts said Wednesday.

Will young Amer­ican voters be as enthu­si­astic about Pres­i­dent Obama’s re-​​​​election as they were about his can­di­dacy four years ago, when 66% of 18– to 29-​​​​year-​​​​olds favored him over John McCain?

As 18-​​​​year-​​​​old Gio­vana Fre­diani and her friends stood in front of the mirror to prep for a night out, one girl turned around and com­plained that her back­side was getting big.

Oak­land is reeling after a gun ram­page at a small reli­gious col­lege left seven people dead. Six months ago, eight people died in a shooting in Seal Beach, Cal­i­fornia. And … read more »

Con­grat­u­la­tions are in order for Rick San­torum. The former Penn­syl­vania sen­ator rose from the ranks of the polit­ical dead Tuesday night to come within eight votes of a first-​​​​place Iowa … read more »

I’ve long aspired to put robots on stage, which is strange to say since the first appear­ance of a “robot” was on a stage.

One of the oldest axioms in pol­i­tics is that you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Now that the hope­lessly divided deficit reduc­tion super com­mittee has failed, … read more »

A fed­eral judge on Monday blocked imple­men­ta­tion of a law that would have man­dated tobacco com­pa­nies include on cig­a­rette pack­ages graphic pic­tures and mes­sages showing the dan­gers of smoking.

Flying in a pri­vate jet used to be the ulti­mate status symbol, but the reces­sion com­pletely knocked the wind out of the industry — until now.

The Tal­iban have been forced out of power, Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda, by many accounts, is not nearly as pow­erful as it once was.

You don’t have to be a sci­ence major to know that heat rises: Just step into an attic on a hot summer day. But what you might not know is … read more »

According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week, median house­hold incomes adjusted for infla­tion declined by 2.3% in 2010 over the pre­vious year. The data also … read more »