Ever wonder why it's so much easier to remember people's faces than their names? Neuroscientists have an explanation. They've identified a pea-size region in the brain that reacts more strongly to faces than it does to cars, dogs, houses or
Customers in China of Apple's iTunes online-music store were unable to download songs this week, and an activist group said Beijing was trying to block access to a new Tibet-themed album.
The Raishbrook brothers own RMG News, a news video agency that supplies local and national TV programs with footage of the chaos that plays out each night in and around the city. There is good money in feeding TV news'
France's prime minister wants parliament to vote on whether to keep French forces in Afghanistan, his office said Friday, as a new poll showed most of his compatriots want the troops pulled out after 10 died in a vicious ambush.
It is the storm that won't quit. On the fifth day since hitting Key West, Tropical Storm Fay continued to pound Florida with rain and wind Friday, having caused at least seven deaths in the state along with damage totaling
The controversy over a best-selling author's account of forgery and deception in the White House deepened Friday with a new CIA denial of claims that it helped the Bush administration produce phony documents suggesting past links between al-Qaida and Saddam
Two weeks after sending troops storming across the Georgian border, Russia pulled its forces out of the city of Gori on Friday and withdrew from a stretch of the main east-west route that they had used to choke the strategic
The University of Illinois, Chicago, said Friday it is releasing records of Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to former 1960s radical William Ayers.
Sen. Barack Obama has chosen Sen. Joseph Biden, of Delaware, to be his running mate, turning to a leading authority on foreign policy and a longtime Washington hand to fill out the Democratic ticket, people told of the decision said.
Strip-searches are so dehumanizing that they violate a person's constitutional rights if conducted without good reason to suspect an arrested individual is carrying contraband, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Masked federal agents stormed Tijuana's Agua Caliente Racetrack Friday and captured an alleged organized crime figure in a daring operation that stunned gamblers at the historic Mexican casino.
Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joe Bidenof Delaware Saturday as a man "ready to step in and bepresident," and the newly minted running mate quickly turned hiscampaign debut into a slashing attack on eight years of Republicansseeking four more years in
Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.
You may remember Delaware Senator Joe Biden from political blockbusters of the past such as, "The Clarence Thomas Hearings," the "1988 Presidential Campaign," or "The Clean And The Articulate." Now he's back for his greatest role as Barack Obama's vice
For two years, President Bush successfully resisted efforts by Democrats in Congress to set a timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq. But in recent months, pressure from Iraqi politicians appears to have proved too much for the commander in chief.
Hits Asking for all the right things Dallas City Hall deserves credit for setting an aggressive agenda for next year's state Legislature session. The city will lobby for laws requiring public recording of all real estate sales prices, making it
Sufferin' Sasquatch, that was no fun at all! For a tantalizing moment, the world entertained the possibility that a Bigfoot corpse had been found in the north Georgia woods. But the Internet photo looked like a moldy gorilla costume. And
JEFF CITY: TILE TOWNPeople who want to buy a piece of state government ordinarily use a lobbyist. But for a limited time, they can get a chunk o' Missouri on eBay, the online auction site.Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and his
