ForneyAndYou.com

It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: A group of insurgents hack into American military drones, using software they got off the Internet, according to The Wall Street Journal. But, for the benefit of that screenwriter likely pounding away right now to get his idea in first — as well as for the general public — what actually happened?

Iran has notified the Swiss government that it can have access to three American hikers detained near the border with Iraq, two senior U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday.

7 p.m. — Excerpts released

In situations like the dire humanitarian crisis that has followed Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti, we all are forced to witness what is the sometimes painful truth behind the cliché about it taking a village to raise a child. In the tragedy unfolding before us now, it will take a global village.

Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has died, a spokeswoman for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Friday.

In elementary school, there are classes you always look forward to — gym, home economics and choir — and classes you don’t — like English, science and geometry.

President Obama’s announcement Tuesday of loan guarantees for nuclear power plants may encourage new construction, but a problem still remains that has plagued atomic energy for decades: what to do with nuclear waste?

Daisy Vidal thought she was lucky. She was offered a more affordable mortgage on a trial basis, which she thought would allow her to hold onto her home.

Ken Ober, whose MTV game show “Remote Control” was among the network’s first forays into non-music programming, has died at age 52, his agent said Monday.

Next week, NASA plans to launch the first of 17 planned flights to study changes in Antarctic ice and collect data that may help scientists better predict the consequences of those changes, officials said Thursday.

Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old boy whose beating was captured on amateur video.