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A report by GAO reveals that the US government is devoting $1 billion per year to protect increasingly susceptible space-based assets.

DNCE photographed at Drive-In Studio in new York City on Sept. 17, 2015. Miller Mobley "Cheers!” Raising a mayo-dunked French fry in the air, a...

Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake are in advanced talks to buy data storage company EMC, for what could be the biggest technology-industry takeover ever.

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New England Patriots (3-0) at Dallas Cowboys (2-2)

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Wether they're working the red carpet or strutting down an airport terminal, celebrities know how to make an entrance. Here are some of the looks the rich and famous choose while traveling.

Three of the most powerful men in world soccer, including embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter, received provisional bans of 90 days from the sport’s governing body, pending the outcome of a Swiss criminal investigation.

The race to sign up drivers to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. now extends to people who don’t even own cars.

When you think of the von Trapp family, the first image that comes to mind is probably that of the cheerful group of children harmonizing to “Do-Re-...

BOISE, Idaho - Idaho's federal nuclear facility can become the nation's premier energy security lab while also bolstering the region's economy, the new director says.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's federal nuclear facility can become the nation's premier energy security lab while also bolstering the region's economy, the new director says. "Mark's recognized leadership in all fields of energy research — including energy storage, renewable energy, energy efficiency and nuclear energy — and national security makes him an ideal choice as the next Lab Director of INL," Ron Townsend, Chair of Battelle Energy Alliance's Board of Managers, said in a statement announcing the decision in August. Читать дальше...

A widow allegedly committed suicide here after being constantly pressurised and humiliated by some people to pay back the money borrowed by her husband Dilbag Singh, police said.

Signs that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates low for several more months pushed stocks broadly higher on Thursday, adding to what has been a near eight-day rally. Energy stocks advanced with the price of oil. The Nasdaq composite rose 19.64 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,810.79.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah has reservations on where the Trans-Pacific Partnership landed on patent protection. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to the senator about the GOP reaction to the trade deal.

In an interview with New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum Wednesday, NPR mistakenly characterized a segment on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as paid product placement. Both Taco Bell and Ben & Jerry's say they had nothing to do with the segment.

One of the surest signs of an economic bubble that is about to pop is a surge in the stock price of Sotheby's. The global art dealer's stock resembles a rollercoaster, and it has predicted every up and down of the global economy since the company went public. So with talk of big bubbles in the tech sector, Planet Money went poking around.

Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday. She is the first writer from Belarus to win the prize.

As many as four of the 26 long-range cruise missiles that Russia said it fired at Syrian targets landed instead in Iran, U.S. defence officials said Thursday.

Barbara ShelleyCourtesy Photo Services are today (Oct. 8) in Scottsdale, Arizona for veteran music publicist Barbara Shelley, who worked with Aretha...

One central Minnesota clan has staged a haunted attraction in the backyard for nearly two decades.

Bull trout are dwindling in Montana as their home waters warm and invasive fish devour them. Scooping up threatened fish and moving them higher up the mountain could backfire. Is the risk worth it?

House Republicans planned to select a nominee for Speaker of the House Thursday, but the election was thrown into chaos when House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the frontrunner, abruptly dropped out of the race.

Volkswagen U.S. President Michael Horn appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to answer questions about the emissions scandal.

Momentum for sentencing reform grows as leaders of the House Judiciary Committee introduce a bipartisan bill. But rising violence in some big cities could complicate the legislative forecast.