Brutal cold settled over much of the nation this week, sparing the west but leaving people in cities from Nashville to New York scrambling to avoid heading outside. The weather has had some unexpected consequences. We’ll be keeping track of them here throughout the day.
Florida State is the national champion, but the Seminoles had to work for it unlike they have all season.
Merrill Newman was tired and looking forward to reuniting with his family, but he was all smiles Saturday after arriving at the San Francisco airport after being detained for several weeks in North Korea.
The Senate approved legislation outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, demonstrating the nation’s quickly evolving attitude toward gay rights nearly two decades after Congress rejected same-sex marriage.
Vice President Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on winning the Boston mayoral race. Luckily Biden has a sense of humor.
Shares of Twitter went on sale to the public for the first time Thursday, instantly leaping more than 70 percent above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes.
Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.
Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration will require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats.
Ending weeks of speculation, Internet giant Google said it is exploring using two large barges — one in San Francisco Bay, another off Portland, Maine — as interactive learning centers.
Southern Californians from Santa Barbara to San Diego have reported seeing a fireball that forecasters said was most likely a meteor streaking across the sky.
The response to the unimaginable and senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has unfortunately gone off the rails. In the name of student safety, adults are teaching kids the wrong lessons.
The new $100 bill, with an array of high-tech features designed to thwart counterfeiters, will get its coming out party on Tuesday — partial government shutdown or not.
A Fox News Channel anchor apologized for falsely saying that President Barack Obama had offered to pay for the operation of a museum of Muslim culture “out of his own pocket” during the government shutdown.
They open the gate and toss the leaves of romaine lettuce into the aquarium. The sharks ignore it, but a 320-pound sea turtle called O.D. snags the leaves from the water and eats like a hungry turtle will.
The multiplex match-ups of fall and the holidays may not feature the battles between megabudget blockbusters that this summer did, but they have the added intrigue that the awards season brings.
