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Developing: Four-Day Truce Coming In Syria, U.N. Envoy Says
Earlier ceasefire deals have quickly fallen apart in Syria this year, so this news should be viewed with some skepticism:
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Reports: Militants Quickly Claimed Responsibility For Benghazi Attack
Reuters and Fox News have obtained copies of an email sent about two hours after the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which the White House, Pentagon and other agencies are...
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After Shark Kills Surfer, Central California Beach Closed
Surf Beach near Vandenberg Air Force Base along California's central coast is closed after the death of a 39-year-old man who was attacked by a shark Tuesday while surfing. The man's death came two...
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Sales Of New Homes Hit Fastest Pace In 2 1/2 years
Sales of new single-family homes rose 5.7 percent in September from August and at an annual rate of 389,000 hit the fastest pace since April 2010, the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...
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The Sick Turn To Crowdfunding To Pay Medical Bills
Surely you've heard of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter that have helped thousands of filmmakers, musicians and painters leverage Facebook and Twitter to raise money for creative projects.
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When Fire Met Food, The Brains Of Early Humans Grew Bigger
If you're reading this blog, you're probably into food. Perhaps you're even one of those people whose world revolves around your Viking stove and who believes that cooking defines us as civilized...
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Equal Pay For Equal Work: Not Even College Helps Women
A startling new report finds freshly graduated college women will likely face this hurdle when entering the work world: they're worth less than equally educated men. The American Association of...
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Championing Life And Liberty For Animals
Before Sam, a white-throated capuchin monkey, threw out the first pitch at a minor league baseball game in Frederick, Md., on a midsummer Friday night, and before Sam and other monkeys — dressed as...
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How Will The Next Washington Governor Shape Medicaid?
Whoever is elected as governor this fall could change the course of Washington state's Medicaid program. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act in June, it determined that the law...
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Florida's 'Mystery Monkey' Captured After Three Years On The Lam
The "mystery monkey" who had been on the loose in the Tampa Bay area for more than three years was captured Wednesday, our friends at WUSF report.
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Many Terminal Cancer Patients Mistakenly Believe A Cure Is Possible
Doctors are often called upon to deliver bad news to patients, and there isn't much that's worse than a diagnosis of an advanced-stage cancer for which there is no cure. But there's new evidence that a...
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Afghan Insurgents Still Finding New Ways To Disguise Roadside Bombs
Afghan troops south of Kabul last week discovered one of the most elaborate and frightening improvised explosive device (IED) traps that American troops have ever heard of or come across. On the...
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Down-Ballot Races Feel The Draft And Drag Of The Presidential Race
President Obama has been turning up in a lot of debates lately. Not just in his encounters with Mitt Romney, but as a talking point for Republican Senate candidates. In an Indiana Senate debate Tuesday...
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Can A President Control Prices At The Pump?
Both candidates have been on their talking points about high gas prices. But Bloomberg Businessweek contributor Roben Farzad says there's only so much elected officials can do to control prices at the...
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D.L. Hughley: Tough Words On Politics And Women
Actor and comedian D.L. Hughley has never shied away from controversy, offering his tough, unapologetic opinions on race, money, politics and even his family. Hughley joins host Michel Martin share his...
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Will It Hold? Assad Regime Says It Agrees To Truce; Rebels Are Skeptical
A message has appeared on the website of Syria's SANA news agency saying that the country's armed forces will halt military operations for four days, starting tomorrow. On its face, that would appear...
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FDA Says Massachusetts Pharmacy Knew Of Sterility Problems For Months
In a highly unusual step, the Food and Drug Administration has released a report of inspections it conduct this month of the Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a national outbreak of fungal...
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History Inspired Travel Tales Of Donoghue's 'Astray'
A young mother sets sail from Ireland after the potato famine to meet her husband in Canada; two gold prospectors seek their fortune in the frozen Yukon; a slave poisons his master and the master's...
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Coastal Marshes Yield History Of Northwest Quakes, Tsunamis
PORTLAND - Native American legends collected on the Pacific Northwest coast speak of battles between supernatural beings that made the ground shake and caused great floods. Those stories can't tell us...
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