The American unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October,its highest level in 26 years, as the economy lost another 190,000jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday.The jump into the realm of double-digit joblessness 0 from 9.8percent in September - provided

The world is looking to Berlin as the citycelebrates 20 years since the fall of the Wall. But in an interviewwith Spiegel Online, Lech Walesa, the man who led Solidarnosc (Solidarity), saysthat the collapse of communism started in the Polish

Intellpuke: This editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Friday, November 6, 2009.House Republican leaders have produced their own health care reformbill. Here is the first thing you need to know: It would do almostnothing to reduce the

Investigators began piecing together on Friday how and why they think an Army psychiatrist facing deployment to Afghanistan gunned down dozens of people a day earlier at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, in one of the worst mass

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from asmall Palestinian town near Jerusalem, he joined the Army right out ofhigh school, against his parents’ wishes. The Army, inturn, put him through college and then medical school, where

Police in Orlando, Florida, confirmed that a man suspected in adeadly mass shooting in downtown Orlando has been taken into custody.The suspect, Jason Rodriguez, 40, is a former employee of Reynolds,Smith & Hill, a transportation consulting company. A SWAT teamspotted

Maximiliano Calcano is 2 and was born with no arms. "When Iwas pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk," saidMaximiliano's mother, Anajai Calcano, 20. "My tooth cracked and fellout. Then my baby was born like that, without arms.

Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to crippleand even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forcesthe best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly largeexplosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S.soldiers and defense officials. At least

Africa accounts for only 4 percent of the world's air traffic but nearly a third of the world's airdisasters occur on the continent, a top aviation official said, and thedismal situation has prompted aviation officials to decide to tightensafety standards

At approximately 11am, there was a shooting at the Gateway Center, a 16-story building, near intersection of Lake Ivanhoe and Interstate 4, in Orlando, Florida.Orlando Police Department spokeswoman identified the alleged shooter as Jason Rodriguez, who used to work in

Just as the housing sector appears to be recovering, gatheringproblems in the commercial real estate market threaten to become a newdrag on the economy. The collapse in home prices sunkmany big banks last year, but this year smaller lenders and

Bob Whitmore, a former federal OSHA official who contends thegovernment has allowed companies to under report workplace injuries, hasfiled a complaint alleging he was fired from his job in retaliation forspeaking out about his agency's failings. His whistle-blower complaint is

At least one gunman killed 12 people and wounded 31 in a shooting on Thursday afternoon at Foort Hood in Texas. Military police killed one shooter, who had two guns, and at least two soldiers are in custody. Lt. Gen.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday afternoon to offer up to 20 more weeks of unemploymentbenefits to those who have been out of work a long time, sending themeasure to President Obama for his signature. The White

Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a pair of shootings today at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the Army says.An army spokesman in Washington says the base has been locked downfollowing the shootings. Another official told

Germany is pinning its economic hopes onfuture-oriented industries such as solar panel manufacturing. Buthigh-tech companies are facing shortages of essential metals as China,which dominates the world market in so-called rare earths, beginsstockpiling the highly sought-after resources.A massive gray mountain rises

Canada's chief public health officer cautions against thinking worstis over, saying: "Until people are either immunized or become ill thiscould go on and will go on for several months yet." Hospitalizations, intensive-careadmissions and deaths due to the H1N1 virus are

One of the nagging issues in the run-up to theCopenhagen climate summit are demands that the U.S. and Europe providemassive aid so poorer countries can buy expensive emissions-freetechnologies. Activist David E. Martin claims many of the patents fortoday's low-carbon technologies

Canadians have been lining upacross the country to get an H1N1 flu shot, but it may not be justthemselves and their family members they have to worry about when itcomes to contracting the virus.Some pets may also be susceptible to

Federal prosecutors charged 14 hedge fund employees, lawyers andother investors with trading on insider information on Thursday, in aseries of criminal complaints that all appear to be connected tocharges already filed against the hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam. The broadest