Advocates for legalizing marijuana say that Colorado and Washington were just the beginning, and it’s looking like Alaska may be next. On Wednesday, legalization supporters submitted 45,000 signatures to the state’s Lieutenant Governor, about 15,000 ...

Millennials have been especially hard-hit by the downturn, which is probably why so many people in this generation regard capitalism with a level of suspicion that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But that egalitarian impulse isn't ofte ...

A report says 2013 may have been one of the safest years in modern history for American police.

Julian Assange said there is “no hope” that mass strategic interception – as it is termed by the US – will go away. The whistleblower then drew a historical analogy with how the US has retained nuclear weapons in the past.

William Doyle Says 'Christmas Has Come Early' for 9/11 Families

North Korean state media churns out official music videos with some regularity. The productions glorify the state, the state ideology, and of course Dear Leader Kim Jong Un. They also tend to benefit from the country's surprisingly talented nati ...

Pope Francis said in the first peace message of his pontificate that huge salaries and bonuses are symptoms of an economy based on greed and inequality and called again for nations to narrow the wealth gap. In his message for the Roman Catholic Churc ...

Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough.

A U.S. ally is treating a would-be nation as a prison camp - and we're doing nothing about it.

A new study out in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention reports that the more sugar-sweetened beverages a woman drinks, the greater her risk for endometrial cancer.

Being warned to turn off your mobile phone or tablet ahead of take-off could finally be a thing of the past by December, following a new ruling from Europe's air safety agency.

There are messy breakups and then there’s erecting a giant middle finger bronze garden sculpture aimed at your ex-wife. Alan Markovitz, a renowned strip club owner living in Detroit, recently had the giant hand sculpture installed in the back garden ...

Canada's reelyActive was named 'World's Best Technology Startup' tonight at the grand final competition of Startup World, an initiative to promote startups and entrepreneurship globally.

There is a town in California so wealthy that even the cops are getting Teslas. The town of Atherton is the bedroom community for Silicon Valley. The average home price is $6.7 million and 15 percent of drivers have a Tesla Model S. But that’s not en ...

Walmart has said that it has resolved an issue that was causing an online frenzy among shoppers. An apparent glitch on the company's website early this morning led to $8.85 listings for items that included computer monitors and projectors normal ...

We had a great time driving our 415 hp Tesla Motors Model S P85+ around for three days, but one thing we didn't get a chance to do was push the car to its top speed. Fortunately, Martin Messer Thompsen of EV Network.dk was able to do just that o ...

It took nearly 15 years after voters approved medical marijuana for it to become available in the District of Columbia, but the next major change to pot laws in the nation's capital is on the fast track.

Documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest the US government has undertaken mass surveillance operations across the globe - including eavesdropping on US allies.

I am not old, but I accept that this could be an old man thing to say. I cannot believe how things have changed since I first started work.

A partnership between police departments and social media sites discussed at a convention in Philadelphia this week could allow law enforcement to keep anything deemed criminal off the Internet—and even stop people from organizing protests.