Search results for

Video footage from the town of Joso, northeast of Tokyo, shows helicopters being used to pluck people from balconies and rooftops as muddy water rages beneath them.

Democrat Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she will use the remainder of her term in office to concentrate on rebuilding parts of the city that were destroyed in April's riots.

A new report emphasizes significant progress in cutting the number of deaths of children before age 5. But in some parts of the world, the rate is still depressingly high.

High winds apparently caused the crane to topple at a time when Muslims from around the world are converging on the city as part of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Some candidates are more dependent on their superPACs and millionaires, while others are turning most to small donors. See where the candidates line up based on their donations.

In the massive security breach that was revealed early this month, hackers also very likely accessed information from background checks that were done on both federal employees and applicants.

The combined company would have an estimated revenue of $115 billion and cover 53 million people in the U.S.

Don Blankenship, 65, is accused of conspiring to violate safety laws at Massey mines. In 2010, a blast at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers.

Why do we humans like to play so much? Play sports, play tag, play the stock market, play duck, duck, goose? We love it all. And we're not the only ones.

The decision to shrink the Army to 450,000 active-duty personnel was made months ago, but Congress was only briefed on the details of the plan in recent days.