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About 30,000 pilots, flight attendants and other airline workers can tear up furlough notices. Federal stimulus money will help them keep their jobs, and transit agencies are getting a boost too.

Reacting to proposed job cuts at General Motors, United Autoworkers officials say the U.S. car giant can't shrink its way out of its financial problems. GM plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs and close some of its plants by 2008. The automaker lost more than $1 billion in the first quarter of 2005.

NASA has placed a copper probe in the path of the comet called Tempel 1. Scientists await a collision that could produce a crater in the comet the size of a football stadium. But first, they have to hit the comet.

Record rainfall trigged flash floods at Death Valley National Park that swept away cars, closed all roads and stranded hundreds of visitors and workers.

The U.S. government announced it would allow foreign diesel deliveries to Puerto Rico as it faces a dwindling supply of fuel nearly two weeks after Hurricane Fiona pummeled the U.S. territory.

More than 1,000 sick and dying sea lion pups have been found stranded since the beginning of the year, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. As scientists try to figure out why, one animal rescue worker says that in nearly three decades on the job, he's never seen anything like it.

For the first time in three years, people will crowd the midway as the Ohio State Fair returns in full capacity next Wednesday. Thrill rides, food, animal shows and free parking highlight a return to central Ohio’s summer staple event

The report is part of a growing body of research into whether institutions and policies reinforce preexisting racial disparities.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said at a press conference Thursday that 500,000 gallons (1.8 million liters) of the wastewater had been delivered to Deer Park, Texas.

A broadband tower was activated in Dover Monday as part of a statewide initiative to increase internet access in mostly rural unserved or underserved areas.