Smokers younger than 21 in the nation’s biggest city will soon be barred from buying cigarettes after the New York City Council voted overwhelming Wednesday to raise the tobacco-purchasing age to higher than all but a few other places in the United States.
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported.
Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has come up empty-handed in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter.
A thick dust storm crossing Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson led to a chain-reaction crash that killed three people Tuesday in an area where gusting winds often reduce visibility to zero.
The sheriff says that six people found dead in a South Carolina home had all been shot in a domestic dispute that ended with the gunman’s suicide.
