NEW YORK – Someone with a political fetish placed a personal ad in The New York Times claiming to be the “Mayor of New York City,” but the real mayor assured everyone — including his girlfriend — on Tuesday that he wasn’t looking for a date. Mayor Michael Bloomberg (search) …
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Heart-healthy fish oil supplements may not be so healthy in people with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), a new study shows. In these people, fish oil supplements may not reduce the risk of heart rhythm problems and may promote irregular heartbeats. That does not rewrite the book on the heart benefits …
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The following is a day-by-day look at the major developments in the South Asia earthquake that decimated parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Saturday —8:50 a.m.: Massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake hits the divided Kashmir region on the border of Pakistan and India. —9 a.m.: Pakistan Red Crescent ambulances join local relief …
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WAYNE, Pa. – Valley Forge Military College (search), the last all-male military college in the country, will accept women beginning next fall. The decision will allow women into ROTC (search), military service academy prepatory programs, the two-year transfer college and the Army Early Commissioning Program (search), where cadets earn Army …
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WASHINGTON – Buildings, trains, ships and, now, the U.S. food supply are all potential targets that the U.S. government is trying to protect from a possible terrorist attack. Ever since plans to attack American agriculture were found in the caves of Afghanistan, Homeland Security (search) has been planning for an …
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It’s not all fun in the sun as the Caribbean plays backdrop in this weekend’s new adventure movie “Into the Blue” (search). The action begins when laid-back island divers played by Jessica Alba (search) and Paul Walker (search) discover a sunken treasure. “This is a beautiful action thriller — it’s …
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CHICAGO – The party is in full swing in Chicago. Two days after the White Sox swept Houston for their first World Series (search) title since 1917, the team hit the streets Friday for a ticker-tape parade and rally. Double-decker buses filled with players, coaches, their families left from U.S. …
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Michelle Duggar (search) just delivered her 16th child, and she’s already thinking about doing it again. Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces. The baby’s father, Jim Bob Duggar (search), a former state representative, said Wednesday that mother …
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WASHINGTON – Samsung, the world’s largest maker of memory chips for computers and other gadgets, will pay a $300 million fine to settle accusations it secretly conspired with industry rivals to fix prices and cheat customers, federal officials said Thursday. Samsung’s guilty plea to a felony price-fixing charge caps a …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Australians Barry J. Marshall (search) and Robin Warren (search) won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for showing that bacterial infection, not stress, was to blame for painful ulcers in the stomach and intestine. The 1982 discovery transformed peptic ulcer disease from a …
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