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The difficult task of pumping highly radioactive water out of the basement of a turbine building at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant began Tuesday, but officials cautioned that …

They're the lone source of free computer and internet access in most communities, allowing the unemployed to search for jobs, learn computer skills and spruce up their resumes. Millions …

(Photo: sunstarrr) BP continues to receive tens of millions of dollars in government contracts, despite the fact that the British oil company is under federal criminal investigation …

Americans observe two anniversaries this year, neither one of them wanted. March marked eight years of combat in Iraq, and October, 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan. These are …

Washington - A year after the BP oil spill put the brakes on full-bore domestic production, it's back to “drill, baby, drill” as federal lawmakers, anxious about rising gasoline …

Thousands of gallons of potentially toxic hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” liquids spilled across pastures and into a stream in rural Pennsylvania early this morning, after a natural gas well …

Leg shackles in a classroom at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are photographed on October 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) …

Reporting from Beirut - At least three people were killed and a large number were arrested early Tuesday after Syrian security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters in Homs, …

Greg Palast investigating BP's blowout in the Caspian, Baku, Azerbaijan 2010. (Courtesy of Greg Palast) Only 17 months before BP's Deepwater Horizon rig suffered a deadly blowout …

A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning finds that 44 percent, a plurality, of Americans think the economy is getting worse, rather than staying the same or getting better. …