05/18/2014 - 20:00
Newly minted graduates with debt from student loans are more likely to accumulate even more bills as they start their adult lives, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.
05/12/2014 - 20:00
The day ended with yet another screaming match between the restaurant’s chef and the general manager.
05/11/2014 - 20:00
West Antarctic ice is melting at a rate that stuns even researchers who have studied the issue for decades, a scientist said during a May 12 NASA teleconference.
05/06/2014 - 08:00
Call it a climate of confusion. While some politicians disagree, the third annual National Climate Assessment, released May 6, reports in no uncertain terms that climate change is a real and present danger.
05/02/2014 - 20:00
A video featuring A-list celebrities – some with tough-guy street cred -- sends a powerful message about the difference between consensual sex and rape.
05/02/2014 - 05:00
This story begins with six words everyone wants to hear: The unemployment rate fell in April.
05/01/2014 - 14:00
By now you’ve heard the chant from workers fighting for a hike in the minimum wage:
I can't survive on $7.25!
04/28/2014 - 06:00
NASA engineers want to harness an asteroid and examine it. They want to send a manned mission to Mars. They want to take that dramatic step into deep space. But they also want to remind us that their cutting-edge gizmos help us in the here and now.
04/15/2014 - 20:00
In every illustration, the Ebola virus resembles an oddly contorted snake, a tangle of indecipherable knots. And that, it seems, serves as metaphor for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
04/04/2014 - 05:00
The jobless rate remained a flat 6.7 percent in March, with the number of unemployed persons holding steady at 10.5 million. Depending on your point of view, it is either a thaw or the continuation of a deep freeze, the beginning of spring or the end of winter.