Posted: 8:55 AM A woman whose mother was killed in last year's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte Tuesday during the senator's first public appearance in New Hampshire since voting against gun control legislation.
Posted: 8:53 AM In Markey, the race pits a longtime liberal politician known for environmental advocacy against Gomez, a fresh-faced social moderate with a distinguished biography and untested political skills.
Posted: 5:57 AM In a surprise twist to the decade-plus effort to ease access to morning-after pills, the government is lowering the age limit to 15 for one brand — Plan B One-Step — and will let it be sold over the counter.
Posted: 5:35 AM Each frame measures 45 by 25 nanometers -- there are 25 million nanometers in an inch -- but hugely magnified, the movie is reminiscent of early video games.
Updated: 4:58 PM On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was born. Often nicknamed WWW, W3 or the Web, the platform should not to be mistaken for the Internet, which is the infrastructure that the Web runs on.
Posted: 9:58 AM Authorities in western New York state are looking for a suspect in the March killing of a man found dead in a Tennessee cornfield.
Posted: 6:39 AM The first draft was as mind-numbing and complex as tax forms. Now the Obama administration is unveiling a simplified application for health insurance benefits under the federal health care overhaul.
Posted: 6:22 AM The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke
Updated: 6:20 AM Looking for a new way to get that jolt of caffeine energy? Food companies are betting snacks like potato chips, jelly beans and gum with a caffeinated kick could be just the answer.
Posted: 6:17 AM Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade.
Posted: 6:14 AM Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch — at least in the state of Nevada.
Posted: 6:13 AM Michael Jackson's words and music rang through a courtroom once again on Monday as a lawyer tried to show jurors the pop singer's loving relationship with his mother and children.
Updated: 12:31 PM Launched in February, Pet Food Stamps has received over to 160,000 applications from needy families across the country. Marc Okon is the charity's founder.
Posted: 1:48 PM The White House is commending NBA veteran Jason Collins for becoming the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay.
Posted: 12:16 PM NBA veteran center Jason Collins has become the first active male professional athlete in the major four American sports leagues to come out as gay.
Updated: 1:46 PM The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she's no terrorist.
Updated: 1:46 PM A Mississippi man charged with making a deadly poison sent to President Barack Obama and others was ordered held without bond until a hearing later this week.
Updated: 7:40 AM The most complete account of Michael Jackson's final months is about to unfold in a cramped Los Angeles courtroom nearly four years after the pop superstar's death.
Posted: 6:12 AM Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them are gathering for what could be their last big reunion at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Updated: 9:37 PM New York police have secured a lower Manhattan site where surveyors discovered what appears to be part of one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Posted: 1:32 PM A state review of election problems in Davidson County has concluded the outcomes of two 2012 primary elections could have been influenced by voting technology bungling.
Updated: 1:37 PM The House approved the measure Friday on a 361-41 vote, one day after the Senate agreed to the bill. The action came with lawmakers streaming toward the doors for a week-long spring recess.
Posted: 1:17 PM Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem.
Updated: 12:34 PM The Senate voted 63-30 Thursday to advance a bill that would impose state and local sales taxes on purchases made over the Internet.
