City's comptroller says buildings have gotten worse over recent years Residential buildings owned by the New York City Housing Authority have more than twice as many problems as their market-rate counterparts.
Fire has been burning for weeks in the park's backcountry A wildfire in Yosemite National Park flared up on Sunday night, forcing helicopter evacuations of around 100 visitors of the California park.
Big Pharma criticized for profit-making mindset in case of Ebola vaccine Big Pharma is under attack for preventing a widespread vaccine for Ebola to be on the market, since they determined there was no "business case" for it, The Independent reported.
Miller will be tried on Sept. 14 by the North Korean Supreme Court. The U.S. has offered to send an ambassador to the Asian country but the offer has been rejected twice.
Who is Marina Silva? Where did she come from? Marina Silva is the rising star of her political party and is in the running to becoming Brazil's first black president.
Roku, Tivo enhancing non-pay TV watching nationwide After several years of being on the market, Internet video streaming devices paired with antennas are threatening to make it possible to cut out paying for cable or satellite, rather than having them as only an option alongside traditional TV.
A 14-year-old teenager was tricked into having a bucket full of urine, spit and feces dropped on his by his classmates, who recorded it and uploaded the video to social media. Police are currently investigating.
BP could face fines as high at $18 billion after a federal judge said the oil giant acted with gross negligence ahead of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
A wildfire in northwest California has been steadily expanding over the past four weeks, having destroyed nearly 90,000 acres of land and leaving firefighters exasperated, having contained less than a third of the fire’s total area as of Saturday evening.
Dangerous substances found in government laboratories Deadly microbes were found in government labs from historical collections that were long-forgotten, but the National Institutes of Health said they have now been destroyed.
New Yorker arrested for flying drone over U.S. Open match Wednesday A man was arrested by New York City police for using a drone over the U. S. Open on Wednesday.
Coffee genome sequenced, could mean revolution in coffee industry America's favorite morning beverage is a multi-billion dollar industry that can further profit from new research that cracked the code to the genetic material of coffee.
Over a hundred lawyers have written to Obama not to delay on overhauling immigration, now a coalition of grassroots, labor, faith and advocacy groups have written opposing any delay.
Kidnapping as a business: Ransoms and killings both benefit terrorists The recent murders of two American journalists have started a debate about the U.
Fighter jets were deployed before they entered Cuban airspace. A private jet that was destined for Florida from New York crashed off Jamaica after the two people on board reportedly lost consciousness on Friday.
Florida police believe the fictional character Slender-Man may have inspired a 14-year-old girl to set her family's house on fire while her mom and brother were sleeping.
