SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The passage of a landmark bill to address Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension crisis means the yearslong fight over how to address the massive shor...
Site flaunts its hipster credentials
SAN FRANCISCO — Tumblr is where the Internet’s cool kids hang out. That’s why Yahoo paid $1.1 billion to buy the blogging site in one...
Pilots might be too reliant on technology
WASHINGTON — Pilots are becoming so reliant on computer systems that do most of the flying in today’s airliners that on the rare...
WASHINGTON — Congress is racing toward renewing a 25-year-old prohibition against firearms that can evade metal detectors and X-ray machines, just days before the ban ex...
Unemployment benefits, milk prices at risk
WASHINGTON — Congress’ unfinished business threatens to leave millions of Americans — including the unemployed, Pentagon contra...
Fawcett portrait at center of lawsuit
LOS ANGELES — Ryan O'Neal told a jury Monday that he owns an Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett and it was not a secret that he ...
NEW YORK — Look alive, selfie. There’s another word of the year that’s not all about you.
While Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford dictionaries, declar...
4 dead after train derails
NEW YORK — Federal authorities today were beginning an exhaustive investigation into what caused a New York City commuter train rounding a rive...
Do you keep a close watch when you hand over your credit card?
Assume the other fellow on the road is texting or drunk?
Worry that a careless post will be spread by your...
Relationship long questioned
LOS ANGELES — For many women, the end of fertility — and the sharp drop in circulating estrogen and progesterone that comes with it — is a ti...
