Search results for

Public health officials in California are trying to understand why Latino babies are contracting whooping cough at much higher rates than other babies.

Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi is one of seven men charged with planning and helping to carry out the 2008 attack that killed more than 160 people. Federal prosecutors had opposed the bail plea.

The latest killing and kidnapping occurred just 20 miles from where the Islamist extremist group kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April.

If you're a charity that wants to help the developing world, you really, really, really don't want to win a "Rusty Radiator."

An independent review panel calls for changes ranging from a better fence at the White House to a new approach to training and leadership within the Secret Service.

Environmental groups cheered New York's decision to ban the practice, and some in the industry say when it comes to good-paying jobs, New York's loss is Pennsylvania's gain.

The Fresno City Council approved a new general plan last night that for the first time attempts to but the brakes on suburban sprawl. Over the next two…

Cuba is one of the least connected countries on Earth, with 5 percent of residents online. But it could become the Caribbean's largest market if the Castros open the nation up to the Internet.

Marine scientists plumbing the deepest part of the ocean sent microphones and collection probes baited with chicken to the bottom of a trench near Guam. Now they watch, wait ... and listen.

The Education Department's unveiling today of a controversial proposal has fueled a debate over what this kind of system can — or should — measure.