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Photo-sharing app Instagram expands to the Web
Instagram, the photo-sharing app that was created for mobile phones, is expanding to the Web. The service will launch Instagram profiles on the Web ...
Jobs dwindle during green power debate
An eerie quiet has settled over the Walker Components plant, which assembles custom cables for a global wind turbine company. Orders are down from ...
Apple sells 3M iPads after Mini launch
Apple says it sold 3 million iPads of all kinds in the first three days it sold the new Mini model. Apple started selling the Mini on Friday, starting ...
The danger increases, but still the water calls
"We are tied to the ocean," an avid sailor and president named John F. Kennedy once said. "And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or ...
Nigeria floods kill 363, displace 2.1 million
Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency says 363 people died over months of flooding across the West African nation and 2.1 million others were ...
Post Sandy, manic Monday begins for commuters
Commuters streaming into New York City on Monday endured long waits and crowded trains, giving the recovering transit system a stress test a week ...
Poachers dehorn 14 rhinos in South Africa, 3 die
Police say 14 rhinos in two South African provinces have been found illegally dehorned in the past week. Three of them died. Capt. Paul Ramaloko said ...
Inland NJ town reeling from river flooding
The lives of the residents of Lamker Court lie in heaps on lawns and curbs. A stuffed Shrek doll sits atop a dining room chair. A gas stove rests in ...
Cold weather and new storm add to victims' misery
Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan ...
Red Cross carries on despite storm-response flak
It happened after the 9/11 terror attacks, after Hurricane Katrina and now, once again, after Superstorm Sandy: The American Red Cross takes flak for ...
Dizzying array of media streams spotlight election
The days of watching Election Night coverage on a single television set may soon be a quaint anachronism. Americans have an array of alternatives for ...
Elderly face challenges coping with Sandy's impact
Eileen James sits by the window when the sun is out, wears gloves to bed and hasn't had a hot meal in a week. Like many elderly people in the New York ...
PROMISES, PROMISES: Hours to go, promises to keep
Mitt Romney has a ton of promises to keep if he becomes president, and that's on his first day alone, never mind the other 1,460 days. Barack Obama ...
Newspaper discloses new Cameron text messages
A British lawmaker called Sunday for the country's media ethics inquiry to publish all the text messages it has between Prime Minister David Cameron ...
AP PHOTOS: Long gas lines after destructive Sandy
Filling stations with "No Gas" signs taped to the pumps are confronting drivers across New York City and coastal New Jersey amid fuel shortages ...
Fight intensifies over NW coal exports
The progressive college town of Bellingham, Wash., is known for its stunning scenery, access to the outdoors and eclectic mix of aging hippies, ...
Most NYC schools to open Monday despite challenges
Life is far from normal for 13-year-old Eliran Cohen a week after Superstorm Sandy flooded his family's Staten Island condo. The teen, his mother and ...
Shuttle prototype Enterprise suffers storm damage
The flying machine that ushered in NASA's space shuttle program has suffered storm damage in New York City. Shuttle prototype Enterprise weathered ...
Judge backs NASA lab in work discrimination case
A California judge has tentatively ruled in favor of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by a former computer ...
Where are all the space shuttles now?
The last of NASA's space shuttles to fly, Atlantis, is the last to move to its new retirement home, just 10 miles away at Kennedy Space Center's main ...
Final 10-mile trek for space shuttle Atlantis
Accompanied by a fleet of astronauts spanning NASA's entire existence, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space ...
Hyundai, Kia overstated gas mileage, EPA finds
Hyundai and Kia overstated the gas mileage on 900,000 vehicles in the past three years, a discovery that could result in sanctions from the U.S.
Indiana complicates GOP's Senate math
Fresh signs that Democrats could snatch Indiana's Senate seat from the Republicans make it distinctly harder for the GOP to seize the Senate majority ...
IDC: Android on 75 pct of smartphones in 3Q
Google's Android software for mobile devices was running on 75 percent of smartphones shipped in the third quarter, as the search company extended its ...
Review: Surface mostly bridges work-play divide
I've been conditioned just like any other consumer to expect certain things from certain companies. When it comes to tablets, I expect Apple's to look ...