Hours after reports surfaced that former "American Idol" champ Fantasia Barrino was admitted to a North Carolina hospital for a drug overdose after an apparent suicide attempt, Barrino's father and manager have said the singer is already ...

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board got caught off guard by the public relations campaign waged on behalf of its ousted chief executive, Mark Hurd, to defend his reputation in the wake of his departure.

Steven Slater developed an instant cult following when he abruptly quit his job as a JetBlue flight attendant Monday, cursed over the loudspeaker, grabbed some beers, then bolted via the emergency chute.

WASHINGTON, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - The US State Department on Tuesday warned nationals against visiting Russia because of wildfires raging across the country and an unprecedented heat wave, CNN reported.

It has been more than two years since Tiger Woods has won a major golf championship. He has never gone this deep into a season without winning a tournament of some kind.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared the H1N1 flu pandemic over, a little more than a year after a spring flood of cases prompted a global effort to curb its wildfire transmission.

About half the money in the House plan goes toward 1500 new border personnel. Not in the plan: money for any border fences. President Obama could sign a version of the bill in September.

It's baaaack. The debate over net neutrality has been reignited with the joint proposal by Google and Verizon that's designed to lock in some aspects of net neutrality, but also give mobile and cable ...

The New York Democrat, speaking on the floor for more than half an hour during an emergency session on aid to the states, makes a candid appeal to have his hearing before September.

Pesky pedestrians can be removed from Google Street View with some experimental software developed by a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

This is the latest in a series of biannual reports by the UN and confirms that violence continues to increase across Afghanistan. It is not just soldiers but civilians who are being killed or injured in unprecedented ...

A Verizon spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday that the company planned to sell out its inventory of its original Droid phones, and not replace them when the supply was exhausted.

Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The US is relying on the military to funnel meals, prefabricated bridges and medical supplies to Pakistan's flood victims, even as American troops fight a war in neighboring ...

It may soon be possible to obtain a highly accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing a sample of spinal fluid. A study released Monday found that a constellation of three substances in the cerebrospinal fluid was present in 90% of people ...

Five months into an investigation of safety issues involving Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles, US safety officials have yet to identify any new defects beyond those reported by the car maker itself.

Connecticut voters headed to the polls to pick candidates Tuesday in the state's most competitive and expensive primary campaign in recent memory.

NEW ORLEANS - Hundreds of federal lawsuits filed over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will be handled by a single judge here, a judicial panel announced Tuesday.

The most comprehensive US study to date shows that the number of cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, dropped in healthcare settings from 2005 to 2008.