Facing the near-certainty that they would miss the midnight deadline for averting sweeping tax hikes, Senate lawmakers on Monday nevertheless edged closer to a potential deal that could undo most of the damage -- presuming Congress approves it.
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved.
An Indian student left critically ill after being gang-raped on a Delhi bus has died, say doctors at the Singapore hospital where she was being treated.
A Washington attorney suing the Obama administration for access to alias emails sent by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson claims that a recent decision by the Justice Department to release thousands of those emails next month contributed to her resigning Thursday.
Families across the country might soon have to start trimming back their monthly budgets, with lawmakers running out of time and ideas for averting a crushing set of tax hikes.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is discharged from a hospital in Pretoria, where he has been receiving treatment for a lung infection and gallstones.
A local New York newspaper is drawing the ire of its readers after publishing an interactive map that shows the names and addresses of thousands of residents who have handgun permits.
Crime trends over the past few decades give a mixed picture of whether renewing an assault-weapons ban would reduce the kinds of mass shootings that have spurred calls for its reenactment in the first place.
