The family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead rejoiced Monday after a superior court judge extended a deadline to keep the teen on a ventilator as her family attempts to move her to a new facility.
A California judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead to be kept on life support until Jan. 7. The family of Jahi McMath, who underwent a tonsillectomy Dec. 9 to treat sleep apnea and …other issues, says there is hope for her recovery and has been fighting the opinion of doctors.
With less than six weeks before the Sochi Games, athletes around the globe are intensely focused on qualifying for the Olympics. But some are also keeping an eye on the terror threats in Russia.
The U.S. dollar traded near a five-year high against the yen on the final day of 2013, up 21% for the year against the Japanese currency and on track for its best performance since 1979.
Casselton, --. N.D. - A mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed just before it would have cut through the heart of a small North Dakota town, shaking residents with a series of explosions that sent flame and smoke skyward.
JUBA (Reuters) - The African Union has threatened targeted sanctions against those inciting the violence in South Sudan and hampering international efforts to negotiate an end to the two-week outburst of fighting that risks drawing in the wider region.
Congolese troops have regained control of three strategic sites in the capital Kinshasa after raids by what the government described as a 'terrorist group'.
Ahead of Kerry visit || PM calming right-wing fears on U.S.-brokered 'framework agreement'. Most ministers seem to underestimate significance of the outline: Kerry won't let Netanyahu pull the Israeli trick of saying yes but meaning no.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese armed forces fired on Syrian aircraft that entered the country's airspace on Monday, the first such action since they threatened last summer to attack any troops, vehicles or warplanes that violated Lebanese territory from ...
1 China clash: Police in far western Xinjiang region killed eight people Monday when a group wielding knives and throwing explosives attacked a police station, local authorities said.
TPM: Belief in evolution among Republicans has dropped more than 10 percentage points since 2009, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center. Pew found that 43 percent of Republicans said… they believed humans and other living beings had evolved over time, down from 54 percent in 2009. More (48 percent) said they believed all living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A controversial hunting contest in Idaho targeting wolves and coyotes has ended with nearly two dozen coyotes killed but no wolves shot, though rancor over the event remains undiminished.
PHOENIX - A caller told an emergency dispatcher that a masked man raced into a Phoenix bank and then calmly described how police gunned down the suspect minutes later as he fled with a bag of cash.
ALBANY - Manhattan Assemblyman Micah Kellner is the latest Assembly member to be punished for sexually harassing staffers. Kellner was stripped of his no-salary post as chairman of the Libraries Committee and banned from holding any other leadership ...
The six sites chosen by U.S. regulators to test civilian unmanned aircraft will provide a wealth of technical data, starting as soon as six months from now, to help develop drone-safety standards.
(NEW YORK) -- The stock market and the housing market are ending 2013 on a high note. On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the day up 25.88 points to 16,504.29.
NSA methods revealed · Why I cover my iPhone camera · Australians oppose Google practices. The NSA can plant malicious software on Apple's iPhone, turning one of the world's most popular smartphones into a pocket-sized spy, according to a leading ...
Singer Beyonce poses at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Aug. 28, 2011. Reuters/Danny Moloshok. Beyonce has been criticized for sampling an audio clip related to the space shuttle Challenger disaster in the love song "XO" from her fifth ...
According to the gods of political correctness (or is it goddesses?), I'm not supposed to watch A&E's "Duck Dynasty" because Phil Robertson, one of the reality show's main figures, expressed ignorantly anti-gay and racially insensitive sentiments in a ...
While giving praise to those she loves, Robin Roberts also revealed that she is a gay woman. In a post on Facebook Sunday, the Good Morning America host reflected back on a "critical milestone" in her treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome, saying she ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Goran Dragic had 26 points and eight assists before sitting out the fourth quarter, Gerald Green added 21 points off the bench, and the Phoenix Suns ended the year with a 107-88 rout of the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.
Mack Brown completes his tenure at Texas after 16 seasons with a loss to Oregon in Mack Brown completes his tenure at Texas with a loss to Oregon in the Alamo Bowl.
ALAMO BOWL TEXAS vs OREGON Goodbye Mack Brown, thank you for your approach to winning. You may have fallen short at times, but you did it with out The Scandal. You are a great Recruiter, Role mod…el, and Coach...You did it the right way. record 157-45 with 2 National Championship appearances and one Title..
The crew of a Russian research ship stuck in the remote Antarctic ice will have to be rescued by helicopter after several attempts to reach the stranded vessel by boat have failed.
So you think tobacco is bad for your health? Try telling that to a tobacco hornworm: His stinky nicotine breath is the only thing keeping him off the evening dinner menu, scientists say.
Toyota is slated to display its hydrogen-powered concept car at the Consumer Electronics Shows in January 2014. The company plans to produce the vehicle, which has a driving range of at least 500 kilometers and refueling times as low as three minutes, ...
Ready yourself for the real-life glowing green menagerie. Ten little piggies that glow in the dark have been created by scientists at the South China Agricultural University.
If losing weight and looking better isn't enough motivation to inspire you to exercise, how about the fact that the latest research shows that regular physical activity may be ''the best preventive drug we have'' for many health problems.
“..."Exercise is the best preventive drug we have, and everybody needs to take that medicine," Metzl, author of The Exercise Cure, said. Timothy Church, physician and director of preventive… medicine research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, added that leading an active life is "the most important thing you can do" for long-term health. "Exercise strengthens the entire human machine - the heart...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Lung cancer kills nearly 160,000 Americans each year. It's often caught much too late. Now government advisors are announcing new screening guidelines for smokers.
