There are hundreds of biological field stations around the globe, and a select few of them are now letting visitors rub elbows with staff researchers and spend the night inside the facilities -- no advanced degree required.
United Airlines on Monday doubled its fee for a second checked bag to $50, citing volatile fuel prices.
Citing higher fuel prices, United Airlines said Thursday it will begin charging domestic passengers $15 each way for one checked bag.
Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.
Some drivers would say that the United States is a crazy quilt of speed limits, with an emphasis on the "crazy."
Nearly 100 delegates are at stake as Obama and Clinton maneuver in an arena that has caucuses and a primary. He leads in the polls; she in superdelegates
The foundation of a democratic republic is suffrage: the right to vote. Universal suffrage extends this civil right to all adults without distinction to race, sex, belief, intelligence or economic or social status. In the United States, almost all adult citizens over the age of 18 may vote in the presidential election. To this day, U.S. citizens who reside in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories do not vote in presidential elections, but may vote in local elections.
Olga strengthened into a tropical storm Tuesday after making landfall on Hispaniola and soaking the Dominican Republic, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition on Monday filed a civil rights complaint against Morgan Stanley, alleging the investment bank discriminated against minorities seeking home loans.
Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest telecommunications company, said Monday it will buy the remainder of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash.
There are hundreds of biological field stations around the globe, and a select few of them are now letting visitors rub elbows with staff researchers and spend the night inside the facilities -- no advanced degree required.
United Airlines on Monday doubled its fee for a second checked bag to $50, citing volatile fuel prices.
Citing higher fuel prices, United Airlines said Thursday it will begin charging domestic passengers $15 each way for one checked bag.
Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.
Some drivers would say that the United States is a crazy quilt of speed limits, with an emphasis on the "crazy."
Nearly 100 delegates are at stake as Obama and Clinton maneuver in an arena that has caucuses and a primary. He leads in the polls; she in superdelegates
The foundation of a democratic republic is suffrage: the right to vote. Universal suffrage extends this civil right to all adults without distinction to race, sex, belief, intelligence or economic or social status. In the United States, almost all adult citizens over the age of 18 may vote in the presidential election. To this day, U.S. citizens who reside in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other U.S. territories do not vote in presidential elections, but may vote in local elections.
Olga strengthened into a tropical storm Tuesday after making landfall on Hispaniola and soaking the Dominican Republic, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition on Monday filed a civil rights complaint against Morgan Stanley, alleging the investment bank discriminated against minorities seeking home loans.
Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest telecommunications company, said Monday it will buy the remainder of SunCom Wireless Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash.
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The 2007-08 schedule for Connecticut includes 14 games against teams that went to the NCAA tournament last season, including three Final Four participants.
LAS VEGAS -- For a minute there, it looked like the mighty and powerful United States had become mortal.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The United States turned up the defense and turned away Canada.
The screams of frustration that were once deafening have been silenced. Team USA has found its shooter.
Kobe Bryant spent the first part of his 30th birthday on the bench.
For the United States, the real tournament begins Sunday.
The United States should win every basketball tournament it plays. Period. Putting aside potential continuity issues, when the Americans send their "A" team, the talent gap is that wide.
Jamie Cockayne, a 21-year-old Pennsylvanian, was murdered in the U.S. Virgin Islands in June. He was ambushed, beaten with a two-by-four and stabbed seven times after an altercation at a local bar on the small, normally quiet island of St. John. He died in the street.
Corals stressed by warming conditions may benefit from the passage of a hurricane -- as long as it doesn't slam right into them
Since March 2003, the collection of duties -- the taxes or "customs" levied against imported goods -- has fallen to the newly minted Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a Department of Homeland Security agency that encompasses four previously independent offices and enforces the border-sensitive laws and regulations of more than 40 other government divisions, from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to the Department of Agriculture.
Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday
Gas prices rose more than eight cents in the past two weeks to a national average of $2.87 per gallon of self-serve regular -- and are expected to further rise -- according to a national survey released on Sunday.
Gas prices jumped more than 18 cents over the past two weeks to a national average of $2.79 a gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Use this explainer to help students understand the reasons for and history of daylight-saving time.
Charli Turner Thorne likes to tell her team that the question is not if you will face adversity, it's when. And so it was that her 10th-ranked Arizona State team got sucker punched for the second time this season when dazzling freshman point guard Dymond Simon, a former McDonald's All-American who was averaging 9.4 points off the bench, went down with an ACL injury during a 62-54 win over USC on Saturday. But don't expect the Sun Devils to be anything but their usual harassing, pressuring, relentless selves when they host No. 20 Cal and No. 9 Stanford this weekend. This team has already endured a far greater loss and become much stronger for it.
Tomorrow new passport rules will take effect that have thousands of travelers scrambling for applications. Gerri answers questions that will tell you what you can do if you need a passport.
Coin collectors may be happy to hear a possible extension of 50-state quarter program scheduled to wrap up by the end of 2008, according to a published report.
I'm sailing on a Hobie Cat with Richard Branson along the shore of Necker Island, his private enclave about a mile from Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands aren't actually a part of Virgin Group, the conglomerate he founded, but sometimes it's easy to make that mistake.
They come from all walks of life to the searing desert heat in Phoenix, Arizona: parents, some who are also teachers; administrators and school board representatives.
Two veterans of the Olympic luge competition -- albeit with vastly different success rates -- have bowed out of the event at the Torino Games.
In news sure to devastate her legions of fans, Anne Abernathy, the woman known as "Grandma Luge" has pulled out of the Winter Olympics in Torino after succumbing to a wrist injury, organizers said.
A tropical depression swirled in the southeastern Caribbean Sea on Monday, threatening to become the 24th named storm in an already record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
Two Oregon couples Tuesday claimed the second-largest lottery jackpot in history -- an announced $340 million -- which the woman who bought the ticket called "a tremendous blessing."
A record $340 million Powerball jackpot has sent ticket sales for the multi-state lottery soaring.
Wednesday's Powerball drawing could produce the largest lottery prize in history, a record jackpot of $340 million.
Actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney -- who met in January at a tsunami relief benefit -- were married Monday on the resort island St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Laurance S. Rockefeller, a billionaire philanthropist who was well-regarded as a trailblazer of modern venture capitalism, died in his sleep Sunday at the age of 94, the New York Times reported Monday.
For the international businessperson with the ability to choose where to live, work and invest, the words "tax haven" almost certainly come to mind.
When a 68-year-old cleaning woman won last week's $294 million Mega Millions jackpot, she joined a select group of people: multi-millionaire lottery players.
Despite nervous hand-wringing in the media about federal budget deficits, U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are holding strong, valiantly flinging pork far and wide.
Powerball officials said there were two winners in the $221.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot drawing New Year's Eve -- the fifth-largest jackpot in the game's history.
Fans of Block Island tend to describe this jewel 12 miles off the coast of Rhode Island in terms of what it isn't: The Hamptons without the attitude. A historic seaport minus the theme restaurants and chain stores. An understated Nantucket.
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