SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Yahoo's board of directors has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion purchase of the popular blogging site Tumblr, Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer's boldest move to date to revitalize the struggling Internet giant.

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When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement.

None was linked to that nation's tsunami warning system, which underestimated the full ...

BEIRUT -- Syrian forces launched a large-scale assault Sunday on the city of Qusair, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border, in the government's latest effort to push back opposition fighters from strategic areas of the country.

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others and to work for "something larger than yourself," citing the example of civil rights leader Martin Luther ...

WASHINGTON -- A senior White House aide said Sunday that President Barack Obama learned only from news reports that an Internal Revenue Service office had singled out dozens of conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while Republicans vowed...

BALTIMORE -- Benjamin Lipsitz, a lawyer who defended the man who tried to kill George Wallace, died May 10. He was 94.

"He was so fundamentally devoted to justice. He was Atticus Finch all over again," said retired Baltimore County Circuit Judge ...