Hundreds of thousands residents in the outer boroughs of Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn were stuck in their homes for days because plows did not clear out snow from many secondary roads.
Dry weather, windy storms spreading fires in Northwestern U.S.
Masked gunmen killed at least 53 people at a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, leaving it ablaze with patrons trapped inside in one of the worst attacks in a major Mexican city in years.
Libyan rebels said they were sending in special forces units in their hunt for fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi, whose supporters are now pinned down in pockets of resistance in the capital, Tripoli.
The entire Delmarva peninsula has been warned that a storm of Irene’s power has not been experienced in the region in decades.
The U.S. economy grew at a worse-than-expected 1.0 percent rate in the second quarter, the U.S. Commerce Department announced Friday, in its second estimate for the quarter, as lower export growth and a slowdown in inventory build-up braked the world's largest economy to near-stall speed.
Waves of up to 8 feet have been seen on Friday morning from Myrtle Beach, S.C. up to the Outer Banks.
Irene would truly have to be a catastrophic event to fall into the following list of the costliest natural disasters in recorded history.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's strategy for dealing with rival contender Rick Perry is: do more of the same and bank on a misstep by the Texas governor.
Libyan rebels said Friday morning they were sending in special forces to hunt for Moammar Gadhafi, whose supporters are now pinned down in pockets of resistance inTripoli.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces killed eight people across Syria overnight, activists said Friday, in a renewed campaign to crush protesters cheered by the downfall of Moammar Gadfafi in Libya.
Libya's rebel council announced Friday morning it has moved from Benghazi to Tripoli even as the hunt for Moammar Gadhafi continues and his loyalists fight on in the capital and elsewhere.
The Gadhafi government carried out a lobbying operation to try to stop NATO's bombardment of Libya, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported Friday, citing secret documents.
Fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers from his hiding place as NATO targeted his hometown and rebels announced a move to govern the country from Tripoli.
Anna Hazare edged closer Thursday to a deal to end his 10-day public fast after Prime Minister Manmohan's Singh government agreed to discuss his anti-graft proposals.
Presidential candidate Rick Perry has touted Texas' thriving economy as a sign that he would make an excellent economic steward, but one of his proposals might not do so well on a national scale: a plan to let Wall Street gamble on when retired Texas teachers would die.
Officials have stated that the voluntary order could soon be changed into a mandatory one.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, assailed by Republicans for saying climate change is a scientific fact, appeared to alter his position by saying he doesn't think the issue merits substantial government action.
A COBRA subsidy that reduces the cost of health insurance for unemployed workers by 65 percent is set to end on Sept. 1.
About 9.5 inches of rain are expected to fall in Ocean City over the next three days
Lawmakers on a 12-member Congressional super committee said they are making progress on measures to reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion, a goal mandated as part of the compromise to raise the debt ceiling.
Texas Governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry was endorsed Thursday by Kinky Friedman, who garnered media buzz when he ran as an independent against Perry in 2006.
Reportedly, ‘huracan’ was the Taino word for ‘storm.’
ater that year, Israeli warplane bombed the site in the Syrian desert.
Federal geologists published data that sharply reduces the government's estimate for the amount of natural gas contained in the Marcellus Shale, a vast underground rock formation that has become a central battleground in the debate over the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing.
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.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told New Yorkers to be vigilant as Hurricane Irene whirls towards the city, warning that some low-lying and coastal areas might be evacuated.
China appears on track to forge a modern military by 2020, a rapid buildup that could be potentially destabilizing to the Asia-Pacific region, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
“Since Irene is such a large tropical cyclone, significant impacts are likely along the United States East Coast.
China's state news agency on Thursday condemned a Pentagon report on China's growing military might, calling its account of Beijing's weapons modernization drive an alarmist cock-and-bull story.
