Authorities lowered the death toll from a massive tornado that devastated a town outside Oklahoma City, saying Monday it killed at least 24 people, down from 51, according to the state medical...

Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic...

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of...

In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP has an...

    A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile (800 meters) wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary...

A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park...

South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters — for the fifth time in three days.   Pyongyang regularly conducts short-range missile...

If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer almost certainly does not lie in Dagestan, where the brothers lived...

    Turkey's state-run news agency says a jet has crashed during an airshow in southern Turkey, killing its pilot.   The Anadolu Agency says there were no other casualties...

    An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical...