Authorities say at least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed in a tornado in western Oklahoma.

JERUSALEM - Israel wants to build a nuclear power plant, Israeli officials said Tuesday, a move that could bring new attention to the country's secretive nuclear activities. Israel's national infrastructure minister, Uzi Landau, is due to speak ...

Microsoft is rolling out the new design for its MSN Web portal in the U.S.

CHENGDU, China - After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country. Visitors and staff ...

A graduate student from China charged with a security breach in Newark that led to worldwide flight delays pleads guilty and apologizes.

DETROIT - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that ...

It freshens our breath and helps us quit smoking, but some cosmetic surgeons believe chewing gum does one more thing: It gives us wrinkles.

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LOS ANGELES/DETROIT - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said two ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban. "Today, I'm here to listen to you and ...