Texas Governor Rick Perry's campaign is accusing the Hutchison team of being slanderous and of setting a negative and divisive tone, after a Web site for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison contained hidden phrases including "rick perry gay."

Tens of thousands of unsafe or decaying bridges carrying 100 million drivers a day must wait for repairs because states are spending stimulus money on spans that are already in good shape or on easier projects like repaving roads, an

The House approved an additional $2 billion Friday for the financially strapped "cash for clunkers" car-rebate program, whose early success threatened to sink the system.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who drew criticism for not mentioning the word "terror" during her first appearance before Congress in February, used the term or its variants 23 times during a 30-minute speech before the Council of Foreign Relations

The Connecticut Democrat, 65, says he feels fine and is "confident we're going to come out of this well."

Government subsidies for flights in and out of rural communities can reach up to thousands of dollars per passenger, and Congress is moving to increase the budget by almost 30 percent to keep those flights going next year.

A total of 146 photos were released of the incident, which prompted some to question the reasoning behind the White House Military Office's decision not to make the mission more broadly-known.

Zeituni Polly Onyango, who is the half-sister of Obama's father, had been staying with relatives in Cleveland but moved back to Boston late last year.

The White House continues to encourage consumers to take advantage of the popular but financial strapped "cash for clunkers"car purchases program despite mounting Senate opposition to providing additional funding.

More than 50 members of the House fired off a letter decrying "indecent" and "abhorrent" art projects funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts -- perhaps the most stimulating piece of the $787 billion economic recovery package.

Developers for the community-based CentOS Linux distribution have threatened founder Lance Davis with a project fork unless he becomes more active in the project and accounts for fund contributions. Currently rev'd to version 5.3, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

The first electricity generated by tidal power in shallow waters is coming ashore on the banks of the Humber.

South Yorkshire-based Metalysis is leading a £1.8m effort to develop mass production methods for high-purity titanium.

Dow Chemical's Union Carbide subsidiary is to sell its entire share of ownership in the Optimal Group of companies to Petronas for $660m.

Researchers at Southampton University are taking delivery of a £1.8m IBM supercomputer to perform several computationally intensive engineering tasks.

The Red Bull Company has been ordered to pay a record £271,800 fine after failing to recover and recycle packaging waste.

The large-scale production of hydrogen from water and sunlight could be possible with a new catalytic system that takes inspiration from nature.

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Research being conducted in Belfast could lead to military vehicles armoured with titanium alloys better able to withstand attack.

BAE Systems' underlying earnings for the first six months have increased by 19 per cent to £979m, underpinning expectations for good growth for the full-year.