A Long Island woman was detained in a Harlem mental institution for eight days for claiming, among other things, that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter — even though he does. According to The Daily News‘ Stephen Rex Brown, last year Kam ...

US intelligence agencies in June will stop bulk collection of data documenting calls by US telephone subscribers, unless Congress extends a law authorising the spying, US officials said on Monday. The disclosure that the National Security Agency was ...

Decades-old documents have surfaced showing that the powerful U.S. sugar industry skewed the government's medical research on dental care—and ultimately what officials recommended for American diets. Despite a widespread understanding that sugar ...

The seemingly unremarkable aluminum can is actually a marvel of modern manufacturing. It is, in fact, a glorious thing.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek's 1966 debut on NBC, a Vulcan symphony will go on a 100-stop tour around the US and Canada. The concert will include live music from each TV series with the notable exception of Star Trek: Enterpris ...

It's been a long time since a brand new desktop browser landed on the Web. Web newcomers might even be forgiven for thinking that there have always been just four such browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. After the vicious e ...

Prosecutors are dropping the case against a Nevada woman who spent more than 30 years in prison for a 1976 murder before a judge ordered a new trial based on recently discovered DNA evidence, the district attorney said on Friday. Washoe County distri ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled Nebraska's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in a decision that could allow same-sex couples to marry in the state within a week. U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon issued a preliminary injunction in the case ...

The dawn of the planet of the smartphones came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, in front of a rapt audience of Apple acolytes, brandished a slab of plastic, metal and silicon not much bigger than a Kit Kat. “This will change ...

The morning of July 1 last summer began like any other for Peter Hahn, a 74-year-old who had come to do extraordinary things in a place that he would never call godforsaken but which, nonetheless, is. Tumen, China, sits on the border with North Korea ...

One by one they flickered to life. Venus, first, in 1962, and two and a half years later, Mars. Our spacecraft flew by those planets, orbited them, and became manmade meteors streaking toward the first soil we couldn’t generically call "earth.&q ...

Professional hit-man Charlie Wolfe finds himself in three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge after a botched contract assignment. Stars: Teresa Palmer, Simon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Luke Hemsworth

The tranquil chorus of the natural world is in danger of being lost to today’s generation as people screen out the noises that surround them, a senior US researcher warns. Rising levels of background noise in some areas threaten to make people oblivi ...

In 2013, an Illinois man convinced several investors to fund a revolutionary medical device, to the tune of over $25 million. He called it the "McCoy Home Health Tablet", and promised it would instantly deliver patient data to doctors. In o ...

When a violent criminal tries to avoid arrest by getting in a car and driving off, any police officer will jump behind the wheel and give chase. But in few countries does the pursuit end up on live TV as often - or for as long - as in the US. "W ...

New York City as of Monday had gone more than a full week without a homicide reported to police anywhere in the five boroughs. The last time the NYPD was notified of a homicide was Sunday, Feb. 1, when Shadale Graham, 28, was shot and killed at 136th ...

As far as companies go, Google and Uber have been pretty close. Google Ventures is one of Uber's biggest investors, and Uber is the only third party listed as a transportation method in Google Maps, which will kick users right out to the Uber ap ...

A court in Germany has ruled in favour of a man's right to urinate while standing up after his landlord demanded money for damage to the bathroom floor. The landlord, who was seeking €1,900 (£1400; $2,200), claimed the marble floor had been dama ...

SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual homelessness problem. They’ve suggested waiting for natural disasters like tornadoes to blow the vagrants away, bulldozing parks where they congregate, or creating such ...

Le Petit Journal, a French infotainment broadcast make fun of Fox news, which distort reality by exaggerating and using false information.