The New York Public Library quietly rolled out a new video series last month. Titled "Treasures," it showcases 11 gems of the library's vast collection of more than 50 million items. And since th...

WASHINGTON - World leaders converging here this weekend will try to reverse the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, amid a change in the White House that leaves a key player on the s...

The number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. colleges surged 7% last year to 623,805, an all-time high and the largest one-year increase on record. It is the strongest sign yet that post-9/11 d...

SAN FRANCISCO: Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said Monday that he was stepping down. I...

The U.S. is gung-ho on rescuing the automakers. But the bailout better have major strings attached. General Motors and Ford burned through a stunning $14.6 billion in cash last quarter. G.M...

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Marathon talks between Hollywood's largest actors union and producers broke off early Saturday, with the Screen Actors Guild saying it will ask its members to...

Ford, with help from Volvo subsidiary, leads list of insurance industry's safest vehicles By KEN THOMAS Associated Press Writer The insurance industry named dozens of new cars and trucks, ...

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  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The video-sharing Web site YouTube will take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses by holding an online competition where the public...

  By JUSTIN POPE AP Education Writer An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability - an embarrassing verdict that is unlike...

  Ford, General Motors and Chrysler Are Pegging Their Rebound on New Hybrid Cars By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ ABC NEWS Business Unit Dec. 4, 2008 The buzzword out of Detroit these days seems to ...

  U.S. News looked at more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states to find out which are the best For the second consecutive year, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Techn...

  ADDYSTON, Ohio — The growl of air-monitoring equipment has replaced the chatter of children at Meredith Hitchens Elementary School in this Cincinnati suburb along the Ohio River. ...

  WASHINGTON – A federal "car czar" would oversee a government-run restructuring of U.S. auto companies in return for a $15 billion bailout of the beleaguered industry under an emerg...

  The Treasury Department has doled out $3.84 billion from the $700 bilion bailout fund to 35 more banks. It is the third round of payments to banks and savings and loans. So far, $165.3 ...

Despite notable progress in mathematics, the United States has failed to raise student achievement in science over the past decade while Singapore and several other Asian countries continue to s...

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Ten winners of the 2008 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics received their prizes on Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm, the cap...

Vaccinations are supersafe, but maybe not all at once, or for certain childrenWhen Julie Austin decided to give her daughter the Gardasil vaccine, she desperately wanted to protect Sara, then 15, ...

  There's more than a higher power guarding the Baby Jesus on many public displays for the holidays. There's also GPS. Churches, synagogues and other places that display holiday scenes a...

As early application deadlines pass, a look at the numbers has admissions officials scratching their heads and bracing for another volatile admissions cycle this academic year. At a number of s...

  (CBS/AP) Small cars, which have become more popular with the fluctuation in gas prices, are becoming better equipped to protect motorists in serious crashes, according to tests by ...

  The prestigious International Baccalaureate program is quickly becoming a fixture at many U.S. high schools as the demand for more students with global skills grows. Take, for example, t...

Let me see if I’m getting this right: AIG, the huge insurance company, has so far gotten $173 billion worth of federal aid, because traders at one small division made bets on exotic secu...

  Another year and another gracious invitation from the White House to attend the Bush press party, and here are the pictures to prove it. The parties work this way: After the security che...

SAN FRANCISCO—When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed raising California's tax on alcohol by a nickel a drink earlier this week, part of an ongoing effort to close the state's $40 billi...

  Jellyfish plays lead role in the prize for work on fluorescent protein —By Leslie Fink/NSF In today's laboratories, data output from all manner of advanced-imaging technologies...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to name the nation's first chief technology officer has triggered a flood of wishes, hopes and demands from tech enthusiasts who'd like the...

 Health reform efforts that focus on prevention can save lives but are often costly By Michelle Andrews Posted January 2, 2009 President-elect Barack Obama's political opponents used ...

By Katherine Skiba With great fanfare, Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House of Representatives two years ago and proclaimed that she'd "shattered the marble ceiling." Now, Jan. 4, 2007, ...

Barack Obama's final appointments in December indicate a strong commitment to action on climate change. Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, Carol Browner as Energy & Climate Czar, John Holdre...

Beta test version will be available Friday for regular PC users to download By Jessica Mintz LAS VEGAS - Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for pr...

For students struggling with tuition bills, a few tips can make the spring semester possible By Kim Clark Colleges and universities are seeing more students unable to pay their second-semeste...

The economy will cast an unusual gloom this week in Las Vegas over the annual geek extravaganza that is the Consumer Electronics Show. And no blockbuster product is likely to dominate the sc...

Under President Obama, Will Failed States Like Somalia Merit New Attention? By Alex Kingsbury This year, when Somali pirates seized both a Saudi tanker toting $150 million in crude oil and ...

Well, it's just about time to say goodbye to George W. Bush, but before we do, we just have to look back at some of his more memorable quotes about the environment. Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 200...

His former roommate talks about what he and Obama learned about switching between colleges By Kim Clark Barack Obama began to feel lonely and out of place after his freshman year at Occidenta...

New President Puts Away his Dancing Shoes and Turns to Business The party is over for President Barack Obama, who faces a heavy work load today after waking up for the first time in the Whi...

The list of nominees for the most prestigious awards in Hollywood being announced Thursday, may include an unlikely contender for best picture. Movie fans can expect that the surprise hit Slu...

President Obama has asked the Environmental Protection Agency to look into allowing California to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars. Is this request part of a patchwork of measures...

  By MARY ESCH www.auburnpub.com ALBANY, N.Y. - Biologists say an increase in snowy owl sightings in the South suggests that the arctic species did so well in its northern breeding groun...

By ELIZABETH GREEN, Staff Reporter of the Sun The $100 laptop that was marketed as a saving grace for starving children in Africa is on its way to the New York City public schools. Two eleme...

By Kenneth Terrell Harvard University tops this year's list of most popular colleges, according to an exclusive analysis by U.S.News & World Report. Among the students fortunate enough...

Going Green to Make Green Students Enroll in Green Jobs Training in Hopes of Capitalizing on Next Economic Boom   www.abcnews.go.com   On a sunny winter's day in Southern Califo...

Hackers orchestrated a highly coordinated, global attack on ATM cards involving the theft of a staggering $9 million from bank customers — and they could strike again, according to an invest...

Two New York museums will hold onto early works by Picasso after reaching an out-of-court settlement with a man who claimed he was the rightful owner. Jewish scholar Julius Schoeps claimed ...

http://www.china.org Some of the biggest celebrations of the bicentennial of Abe Lincoln's birthday kick off in Washington on his Feb. 12 birthdate. But you can also catch many Lincoln-relate...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=6798084&page=2 New figures from the National Association of Realtors show "pending home sales" -- the number of houses that are under contract and abo...

(CBS/AP) The Sundance Film Festival's prizes for best U.S. drama on Saturday went to "Push," the dark yet hopeful story of a young woman finding her way out of nightmarish circumstanc...

A small but growing percentage of high school students have passed at least one college-level course before they graduate, but participation and pass rates among some minority groups remain d...

Alison Go The economic stimulus bill now taking shape in Congress could include a $15 billion expansion of Pell grants and a new block grant for states, which would expire after two years a...

By Justin EwersPosted February 9, 2009There it was, impossible to ignore, under Barack Obama's left hand. As the 44th president took the oath of office last month on the steps of the Capitol, he p...

Is there golden treasure buried in a South Texas creek?Using Google Earth, a Los Angeles-based musician named Nathan Smith thinks he's found a lost treasure ship that sank somewhere north of Corpu...

New support programs and federal funds can help students with intellectual disabilities By Jessica Calefati Posted February 13, 2009 Unlike students who pull all-nighters and cram before...

Axelrod Says President May Soon Scrap Stem Cell Funding Restrictions WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic s...

The unemployed can go to college free at a growing number of schools By Kim Clark   A small but growing number of government agencies and colleges are rushing to help laid-off worker...

Now that President Barack Obama has signed into law a $787 billion economic recovery plan, including an unprecedented $100 billion for public schools, the next task is getting that money out to...

Prof. Marshall Grossman has come to expect complaints whenever he returns graded papers in his English classes at the University of Maryland.Skip to next paragraphEnlarge This ImageMonica Almeida/...

Samsung 8gb flash RAMOne advantage of selling gazillions of MP3 players — most of them stuffed with flash memory — is that it gives you a lot of leverage in the chip market.Apple (AAPL...

(CNN) -- NASA said early Tuesday that it failed to launch a satellite which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how they affect the Earth's climate. The rocket carrying the satelli...

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)  -- A crowd of about 10,000 came to Dodger Stadium on Saturday, but they weren't there for a baseball game. While the Dodgers were in Arizona for spring tra...

New services use DNA to connect relatives and track down ancestorsBy Nancy Shute Suzanne Critchfield, a 68-year-old grandmother in Oakley, Idaho, totes around her laptop to show off her latest acq...

WOODLANDS, Texas —  Think of it as a space age twist to that adage: Something old, something new...something borrowed, something blue.Back in 1966 and 1967, NASA hurled a series of Luna...

The timing couldn't be better. Just as millions of working-age Americans are realizing they need extra education and skill-sharpening to thrive in a recession, a flowering of competition promises ...

(HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials declared a public health emergency Sunday in response to the swine flu outbreak, as the number of confirmed cases nationwide rose to 20.Homeland Security ...

1. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. His first name, Barack, means "blessed" in Swahili and was also his Kenyan father's name.2. He says he hasn't liked ice cream since working at Baski...

In justifying the legality of controversial CIA interrogation techniques, the Bush administration's Justice Department relied heavily on one of the U.S. military's own training programs, newly rel...

Against the backdrop of a deepening recession and increasing questions about the government's response, President Barack Obama underlined his plan for economic recovery this morning and emphasized...

By Katy Marquardt (usnews.com)Swine flu fears have yet to wreak havoc on the broad markets, but several industries including food, tourism, and transportation are already feeling some side effects...

By Kent Garber www.usnews.comEnergy Secretary Steven Chu this morning announced that the Department of Energy is investing nearly $800 million of stimulus funds in advanced biofuel research, devel...

There may indeed be "glimmers of hope" in the economy, as Barack Obama put it a few weeks ago, but they were clouded last week by the government's report of a worse-than-expected drop in overall e...

Genetically modified primates that glow green and pass the trait on to their offspring could aid the fight against human disease. Though primates that make a glowing protein have been created bef...

General Motors and the US Treasury have improved the offer to GM's bondholders, as they prepare for the firm's move into bankruptcy protection. Bondholders with $27bn (£17bn) of GM debt are...

Car giant General Motors (GM) has filed for bankruptcy protection, marking the biggest failure of an industrial company in US history. The widely expected move comes after GM had seen its losses ...

It's hardly a bailout, but the federal government is hoping that waiving fees at national parks will help boost local economies across the country. All 147 National Park Service sites that charge ...

General Motors is to sell its Hummer brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery for an undisclosed amount. It is part of GM's plan to reinvent itself by concentrating on fewer ...

She's an extremely rare, seven-year-old "yellow" lobster. http://www.chinauspals.com/media/images/articles/art.yellowlobster.cnn.jpg Fiora's colorful hue makes her an one in 30 million rarity. ...

Dogs possess a two-year-old child's capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent...

Now, their creative and scholastic talents have proved the students to be more than just "one hit wonders." Academy students showcased their poetry and writings for CNN's documentary "Black in ...

Bring out the helium balloons, confetti and a noisemaker or two. Today, researchers the world over have reason to raise a toast. This afternoon, the Chemical Abstracts Service-an American Chemical...

In an effort to contain swine flu, the French Health Ministry this week called for citizens to avoid "all direct contacts between people and particularly with sick people," which means no kissing ...