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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit the U.S. East Coast , rattling buildings in downtown Washington, D.C., causing the Pentagon, White House and to evacuate.

An earthquake sent tremors from Washington to New York City Tuesday afternoon, and U.S. geological officials and other authorities said it was a 5.9 magnitude earthquake based in Virginia.

A mild earthquake is believed to have impacted the East Coast region in the early afternoon, notching a 5.8 magnitude earthquake between Richmond, Va. and Charlottesville, Va.

A look at how the brawl happened and what transpired afterwards.

Sarah Palin is not running for president. Repeat: Sarah Palin is NOT running for president. Not yet, anyway. Former Bush advisor Karl Rove stirred speculation that Palin might soon announce her candidacy for president on Sunday with statements on Fox News suggesting it appears more likely than not that Palin will run. But the former Alaska governor and VP presidential candidate turned conservative spokesperson and celebrity issued a different statement Tuesday through her Sarah PAC Web site. Pal...

Yoga for dogs? Introducing doga, the latest trend of dog and human yoga.

Spend now and hire, if needed, adjust entitlement formulas later: that's what PIMCO's Bill Gross, the head of the world's largest bond fund, is recommending to get the U.S. economy moving again.

Prosecutors on Monday appeared set to drop sexual assault charges against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a stunning reversal in the case against a man who many had seen as the next president of France.

For about two dozen documentary filmmakers, the road to Oscar just might begin in a small West Hollywood multiplex and a downtown New York arthouse.

Manhattan prosecutors are likely to ask a judge on Tuesday to drop all or some charges in the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

U.S. Government officials and Congressional lawmakers, along with drug industry and doctors' groups, are scrambling to find remedies for critical shortages in a number of drugs that treat life-threatening illnesses, including bacterial infection and several forms of cancer.

Kashif Parvaiz. 26, was arrested in connection with the murder of his 27-year-old wife, Nazish Nooran.

Gold and silver prices rose dramatically early Friday as investors fled crumbling Asian and European stock markets, but later in the session some of those early gains disappeared as investors began buying heavily discounted tech stocks.

Russian residents along the Pacific coast have been warned to stay out of the water after two men fell victim to two unprecedented shark attacks over two consecutive days.

If Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas and candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is trying to show that he's qualified to lead an enlightened, diverse, complex society amid a period of economic, social, and technological change, he's doing an awful bad impression.

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) said it plans cut an additional 3,500 jobs – on top of the 2,500 already announced year-to-date.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the rating agency Standard & Poor's over its actions on mortgages leading up to the financial crisis, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

While no deal has been reached yet, Verizon workers left the sidewalks of the telecom company's headquarters and took their strike to the homes of Verizon's top executives, Chairman Ivan Seidenberg and Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam, this week.

A government agency that helped invent the Internet wants to award an organization $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take to send people to the stars.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether analysts at Standard & Poor's (S&P) wanted to lower ratings on selected mortgage-backed securities, but were prevented from doing so by more-senior S&P officials.

Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency that deprived the United States of its AAA rating, is being probed by the Department of Justice over credit ratings of several mortgage securities that led to the financial crisis in 2008.

Driver rescued by Fire Department

Turkey has delivered its strongest warning to Syria yet as it made a fresh call on Wednesday for an immediate end to operations, signaling that the failure to do so would lead to serious unspecified steps.

Recent discoveries have found that cancer is even more devious than previously assumed.

Tom Hanks reportedly refunded money for ticket admission price to two unhappy movie goers who did not like his film, "Larry Crowne."

A spokeswoman for the Communications Workers of America, (CWA) representing 35,000 of a total 45,000 strikers, said the union "does not condone illegal action of any kind," as the nine-day-old strike continues to flare a number of emotions among union workers.

What happened to Obama? It's a question being asked by many liberals, who say the president has not delivered on promises of hope and change.

The Academy Award winning actor released his self-titled album on Tuesday.

Recent discoveries have complicated the general understanding of cancer, which has now turned out to be more willful than thought.