Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thursday that Maryland and other states will be better prepared to deal with a swine flu pandemic this fall because of problems encountered in coping with the outbreak earlier in the year.
L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at...
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago...
KABUL (AP) — Fighting overnight between international troops and Taliban militants in central Afghanistan has left as many as 22...
Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and...
The third wave of cyber attacks to hit South Korea caused little disruption Thursday, with six of seven Web sites affected quickly back up...
The Library of Congress opened an expanded, environmentally controlled storage facility Tuesday on the grounds of Fort Meade. Librarian of...
Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for a fraud that unraveled last December when Madoff confessed to...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The next challenge for Indonesia's president, after winning re-election in a likely landslide, will be...
It started with an arrest, as it often does. There was a woman involved, as there usually is. And there were the denials, controversial...
The failure to agree on swift, concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the summit meeting of the world's most advanced...
In the face of mounting Republican opposition to its health-care agenda, the Obama administration received a boost Wednesday, winning a...
Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that a second economic stimulus package might be needed if the U.S. economy fails to recover, but it's...
Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.
The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also...
It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars. Leeches from a hippopotamus.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter.
Al Franken, the funnyman who wrote the best-seller Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, was sworn in as the junior...
The Obama administration took the first steps toward modernizing the nation's faltering system for protecting the food supply on Tuesday...
- As President Barack Obama heads for his second economic summit in three months, he's holding stronger cards than he did the last time, but...
- Sporting fishing waders and a T-shirt, Sarah Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in half a dozen interviews broadcast...
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With chunks of meteorites fetching thousands of dollars on the commercial market, news of the spectacular meteor that soared over parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania early Monday has touched off a cosmic treasure hunt.
Scores of people in Maryland and Pennsylvania who lingered outdoors into the early morning hours Monday were startled by the brilliant flash of a meteor that soared over the Mid-Atlantic states.
Parts of Charles County's Zekiah Swamp are every bit as inhospitable as the name suggests, choked with tick-infested woods and boot-sucking wetlands. But as archaeologists are discovering to their delight, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Zekiah was a growth center for the young Maryland...
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