Conn. commuters cope with tough week after train crash

Supreme Court to hear prayer case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin its...

GrubHub, Seamless to combine online food ordering businesses

Chicago-based food ordering startup GrubHub is merging with its rival Seamless, creating a company with more than $100 million in revenue...

Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm

Obama urges Morehouse College graduates to help others

WASHINGTON — President Obama urged graduates of a celebrated historically black college Sunday to use their education to help others...

Yahoo's board is said to OK buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo's board of directors has approved a $1.1-billion cash acquisition of blogging site Tumblr.

Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers

MARAAT NUMAN, Syria — Each morning, after saluting the Syrian flag and before the warplanes take off, soldiers at army bases across...

Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT

The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball.

Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31

It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth...

Italian court told about Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties

 ROME -- The Moroccan-born dancer at the center of Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution trial took the stand in court for the first...

Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead

BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead...

Pentagon approves military use of iPhones and iPads

The U.S. Defense Department on Friday approved the use of iOS devices for its network and systems, setting up a fight among Apple, Samsung...

Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have  pooped...

Brother, 12, appears in court on murder charge in Leila Fowler case

A 12-year-old boy made his first appearance in Juvenile Court on Wednesday after being charged with murder in the death of his 8-year-old...