BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The roughly 125,000 commuters who rely on the Metro-North rail line -- as well as thousands of other travelers -- face a potential nightmare of detours and traffic jams Monday morning in the aftermath of Friday's train crash ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Two FBI agents died Friday in an apparent off-shore training exercise.
The agency's website identified the officers as Special Agent Christopher Lorek and Special Agent Stephen Shaw. They were members of the FBI's elite ...
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.
Six-year-...
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.
The ...
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 ...