Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday.

Investors welcomed a pair of corporate mergers Monday, but stocks were only modestly higher as investors await comments from Federal Reserve officials later in the week.

The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were all up about 0...

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A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Scientists need strong microscopes to see these precursors to life, and to take from them stem cells, which have the potential to become any...

A tiny device that can recharge cell phone batteries in as little as 30 seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University.

Khare traveled from her California home to Phoenix last ...

A US Airways plane touched down without landing gear at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey early Saturday morning.

The plane was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. U.S. Airways spokesman Davien Anderson told CNN that no in...

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