Study: 1 in 110 U.S. children had autism in 2006
A new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that one in 110 children in the United States had autism in 2006.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that requires the state to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states while such marriages were legal in California.
Tipsters have given detectives video images that might lead to an arrest in the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut football player, police said Wednesday.
The public will get the other side of the story of the South Carolina governor sex scandal sooner, as the governor’s estranged wife Jenny Sanford’s memoir publishing date has been moved up.
A veteran law enforcement officer became a suspect in a murder case after dogs pointed to his scent in a lineup. He was later cleared. The case is at the heart of a controversy over an investigative forensic tool called dog-scent lineups. The Innocence Project of Texas calls the lineups “junk science.”
A small, rural town in the hills of New Hampshire was jolted by a home invasion over the weekend that left a mother dead and her young daughter severely injured.
After dialing back his attacks on President Obama’s foreign policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney says the administration has damaged U.S. ties with key allies, dangerously wavered in Afghanistan, undermined progress in Iraq and sabotaged the Bush administration’s national security legacy.
Bettye Webb-Hayes won’t ever forget the day her son posed a question that stopped her in her tracks: “am I white?” It was something you didn’t talk about in the segregated South, especially when your mom was white and your father was a mix of African-American and Native American.
President Obama announced Thursday that the federal government will spend $8 billion developing a nationwide high-speed train system — an investment the White House says is needed to help spur long-term economic growth.
Americans overwhelmingly believe that the government is broken, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey. But the poll also indicates that the public holds out hope that what’s broken can be fixed.
The U.S. government warned consumers Sunday to avoid oysters from San Antonio Bay in Texas after investigators found the oysters caused a highly contagious virus.
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