Search results for

A plane crashed in Kazakhstan shortly after takeoff Friday, killing at least 12 people.

The state's new law went into effect this week with the intent of protecting minors from pornographic content online, according to lawmakers.

Digital kiosks and a shaky economy have fueled an explosion in tipping, according to Dipayan Biswas, a marketing professor at the University of South Florida.

Inspectors general complain that they're being stiffed on the access they need to serve effectively. Four lawmakers are now demanding that the Obama administration comply with transparency requests.

The NBA says Suns owner Robert Sarver used racially insensitive language in the workplace, treated female employees unequally, made sex-related statements, and sometimes bullied employees.

NPR has the latest on the referral to the FBI to probe whether classified information was mishandled in relation to the use of a private email server by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In 1202 Leonardo da Pisa (aka Fibonacci) taught Western Europe how to do arithmetic with Arabic numerals. In Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution, Keith Devlin describes how basic arithmetic changed commerce, banking, science and technology.

The loan forgiveness comes after past mishandling of income-driven repayment plans, which were designed for low-income borrowers. The move will erase $39 billion in federal student loan debt.

The U.S. government and Microsoft reveal Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified data.

House Democrats have thwarted a GOP attempt to remove New York Rep. Charles Rangel as head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Rangel is under a House inquiry for not disclosing all of his personal assets and income. The question is how Rangel's ethics woes shake out politically.