EPA: Spend billions to upgrade aging water systems
The Environmental Protection Agency says nearly $400 billion in infrastructure spending is needed over the next two decades to ensure that Americans ...
Texas banker puts up $1M for tricky math solution
A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s.
New BlackBerry with keyboard to hit US stores
The first keyboard-equipped BlackBerry sporting the company's radically new operating system is hitting U.S. stores this week. T-Mobile USA will start ...
Cubans try out new public Internet centers
Cubans lined up Tuesday to try out computers newly wired to the World Wide Web as authorities began offering Internet at more than 100 public access ...
Forest Service to hire 500 fewer firefighters
As dry conditions set the stage for another difficult fire season, the Forest Service said Tuesday it will hire 500 fewer firefighters than last year ...
NASA set to launch latest satellite to study sun
NASA is preparing to launch its latest sun-monitoring satellite on a mission to improve space weather prediction. The Iris satellite will observe a ...
Ecuador oil spill pollutes Amazon tributary
Ecuador's state oil company resumed pumping through the country's main pipeline on Tuesday, four days after it was damaged by a landslide. But crude ...
Gator taken from Ohio home, video showed taunts
A 7-foot alligator found in an Ohio man's basement is malnourished, has bone disease from a lack of sun for 15 years and was being taunted by ...
Death toll hits 10 in European flooding
Germany dispatched thousands of soldiers Tuesday to help cities and towns cope with flooding from the rain-soaked Danube and other southern rivers — ...
Gov't works to reduce food waste
Americans throw away more than a third of the food they buy — that's almost $400 a year per person, or more than an average month's worth of groceries
'Internship' film focuses on Google's good side
This scene isn't in the movie, but it might have been fitting if "The Internship" had ended with stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson wearing ruby red ...
IBM buying cloud computing company SoftLayer
IBM is buying cloud computing company SoftLayer Technologies Inc. to expand its online software business. Financial terms were not disclosed Tuesday.
Silicon Valley at front line of global cyber war
Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's ...
US safety agency may expand GM air bag recall
U.S. safety regulators are checking to see if up to 400,000 General Motors cars should be added to two recalls for defective air bags. The probe ...
Facebook mogul to pay $2.5M in settlement
Facebook billionaire Sean Parker's lavish, $10 million Big Sur wedding got even more expensive. The California Coastal Commission and Parker said ...
Chinese ex-provincial leader in anti-graft probe
The corruption watchdog inside China's Communist Party is investigating a former provincial vice governor, making him the latest senior official to ...
Trade winds drop, and Hawaii gets muggy
Part of what makes living in Hawaii so pleasant is the gentle breeze. Arriving from the northeast, it's light enough that it is barely noticeable but ...
Storm chasing critical, profitable and dangerous
While most people take shelter when a tornado approaches, a growing throng heads for the prairies, be they scientists hoping to protect the public ...
Out with a whimper: Storms over in East, South
The remnants of violent storms that killed more than a dozen people in Oklahoma moved out to sea with a whimper Monday, but not before sending ...
Senate votes on small changes to int'l food aid
The Senate on Monday voted to make modest changes to the way international food aid is delivered, a much scaled-back version of an overhaul proposed ...
US blames Apple for 2010 run-up in e-book prices
A U.S. government lawyer opened a civil trial Monday by portraying Apple Inc. as a corporate bully that swaggered into the market for electronic books ...
Situation in flood-hit German city 'dramatic'
Swollen rivers gushed into the old section of Passau in southeast Germany on Monday, as water rose in the city to levels not seen in more than five ...
African warlord Kony poaching elephants to survive
Members of a militia run by fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony are killing elephants across Central Africa to support Kony's struggling group, ...
Taiwan makers showcase computers at Computex
Taiwan's struggling PC makers are unveiling a new generation of ultra-thin laptops at the world's second-biggest computer show this week, even as they ...
Scientists warn Atlantic puffins in peril in US
The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world. In the ...
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