Elisha Maldonado

Man has already been jettisoned into outer space and taken a jaunt across the moon, but a new report finds that being able to launch human missions to asteroids might aid in the thwarting of potentially devastating asteroid strikes, Space.com reported.

Aug 31, 2011

Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir hasn't even been in stores for a full day, but new reports indicate GOP presidential candiate Michele Bachmann will be publishing a yet-untitled memoir in November.

Aug 30, 2011

Rejecting the notion that he called the shots and thus pulled the strings for President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Iraq War, saying it was the president's decision to invade and go after Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Aug 30, 2011

The federal government will distribute emergency supplies across Vermont to people and communities still feeling the effects of Hurricane Irene, which is threatening to become the state's worst natural disaster since the historic 1927 flood.

Aug 30, 2011

After Hurricane Irene forced a massive shutdown of mass transit in New York City, subway service has been fully restored citywide, NBC New York reported.

Aug 29, 2011

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called President Barack Obama a 'DDD' president, clearly a criticism following the downgrading of the United States' AAA credit rating to AA+ by Standard & Poor's.

Aug 29, 2011

In seeming disregard, or perhaps in spite of it, Ai Weiwei broke the conditions of his release from a detention in Beijing to issue a scathing attack on the Chinese government in an online editorial published by Newsweek.

Aug 29, 2011

Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is in a coma and may not survive, a source close to Jeffs said.

Aug 29, 2011

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell may have voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, but that doesn't mean he's backing him for re-election in 2012.

Aug 29, 2011

Not disguising his complete aversion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2012 Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said he believes the country would be better off without it.

Aug 29, 2011

Reporting live about Hurricane from Ocean City, Maryland Sunday, Tucker Barnes, a TV reporter for WTTG, was drenched in what he described as organic matter that doesn't taste great.

Aug 28, 2011

A final decision on whether to cut power to Lower Manhattan due to storm surges has not been reached, said New York power utility Consolidated Edison, or Con-Ed, said Sunday, but flooding in the area appeared to be less severe than expected.

Aug 28, 2011

In a discovery bound to make many women happy, astronomers have found the single largest discovery of diamonds on a planet 4,000 light-years away, as part of the Milky Way's plane of stars.

Aug 28, 2011

The U.S. believes al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Attiya Abd al-Rahman, was killed earlier this week in the tribal areas of Pakistan, U.S. officials said Saturday.

Aug 27, 2011

Slowly following its chartered course up the East Coast, Hurricane Irene has already claimed its first lives: A North Carolina man killed outside his home by a tree limb that blew down this morning and another who reportedly died of a heart attack, ABC News reported.

Aug 27, 2011

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the military is standing by, preparing to offer aid in response to Hurricane Irene, with roughly 101,000 National Guard forces available to governors of East Coast states, if needed.

Aug 27, 2011

Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

Aug 26, 2011

In mid-August, political operative Karl Rove stoked the flames of hope when he told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he sensed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was faltering in his determination to not make a presidential run.

Aug 26, 2011

Hurricane Irene claimed its first American casualties Thursday when eight people were injured in South Florida, and as the hurricane continues its path of the East Coast.

Aug 26, 2011

Gathering strength as she morphs into a major Category 4 storm, Hurricane Irene continues her assault threat on the East Coast. But even she can't slow preparations for NASA's upcoming launches from Florida's Space Coast, including a moon-studying mission slated to start Sept. 8, the space agency said.

Aug 25, 2011

The 5.8 earthquake that rumbled through Washington D.C. on Tuesday didn't leave the city unscathed. Instead, it went straight for some of its most-loved treasures: the Washington Monument and National Cathedral.

Aug 25, 2011

While the GOP presidential candidates debate the proper approach to creating jobs, New Hampshire's new minimum wage restriction law that lowers the minimum wage to match the federal one of $7.25 an hour has gone into effect.

Aug 25, 2011

Shepard Fairy, the Los Angeles street artist who won international acclaim for creating the popular "Hope" poster that became the image of President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was reportedly assaulted last weekend at the opening of his exhibition at a gallery in Copenhagen.

Aug 16, 2011

Just when it seemed like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had the GOP nomination in the bag, Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the race and leapfrogged him to steal the lead -- and by double digits - in the latest poll.

Aug 16, 2011

In a face-to-face meeting with the Tea Party supporters Monday night in Iowa, President Barack Obama got served a scalding cuppa vitriol.

Aug 16, 2011

Stoking the flames of hope, Karl Rove said he senses that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin U.S. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, are beginning to falter in their determination against a run for the presidency.

Aug 16, 2011

Building him up only to tear him right back down, former President Bill Clinton called Texas. Gov. Rick Perry a "good-looking rascal" before slamming his anti-Washington rhetoric as "crazy" at a New York appearance Monday.

Aug 15, 2011

When in outer space, the view of the heavens is certain to be brighter than that of those on the ground. And with a stunning snapshot of a Perseid meteor bursting into Earth's atmosphere, astronaut Ron Garan proved this to be true, capturing the image through a window of the International Space Station on Sunday.

Aug 15, 2011

The already quite fit Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been getting exercise tips from the most unlikely of sources: Her new grandfather-in-law, Prince Philip.

Aug 15, 2011