Harry Smith talks with Dara Torres, the 41-year-old mom who just qualified to compete in the Beijing Olympics, making her the oldest U.S. swimm...

A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush...

The Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii stopped erupting a year ago. Now, lava that’s been lying underneath the volcano is shooting directly into the sky...

A woman taken from a hospital’s emergency room to intensive care was trapped in an elevator for about three hours and later died Sunday in Iowa....

One month before the start of the Olympics, the stadiums are complete and the city’s new transport systems are coming online. One of the few th...

WSJ’s Walt Mossberg reviews today's brand new 3G iPhone, weighing whether or not the latest features, including a faster Internet netw...

On Monday, the News Corp. media titan trots out the Fox Business Network. Two years in the making, the channel will challenge General Electric ...

The demonstration consisted of two people posing as interrogators carrying out the technique of waterboarding on a volunteer posing as a detaine...

Four decades after the radical 60s, Barack Obama remains vulnerable to its legacy. Daniel Henninger, Wonder Land columnist, speaks with Paul Li...

More and more prescription drugs and painkillers are being sold illegally on the Internet.  As John Blackstone reports, a recen...

American families have faced difficult financial times in the midst of rising gas and food prices.  Seth Doane visits a Wisconsi...

Tensions are mounting in the Middle East, as Iran launched an aggressive missile test, suggesting a possible threat to Israel and other U.S. in...

In a sign of the times, the Florida Lottery is giving free gas as a prize. In a new game, five people will win free gas for life or $52,000 in ...

Red-hot lava continues to flow from a fountain and through tubes at Kilauea volcano. The current eruption, which started 25 years ago, has alre...

Prosecutors cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Authorities in suburban Washington have now identified the three corrections officers who had access to an inmate found dead in his prison cell....

Reverend Jesse Jackson rushed to apologize for his off-air remarks about Barack Obama that sparked a firestorm of controversy. Joel Brown report...

21-year-old hiker Crystal Patterson clung to the ledge of an ice-cold waterfall for over two hours before being pulled to safety. Live on the Ea...

Two men accused in the September 11th attacks denied that they were coerced into refusing legal counsel at Guantanamo Bay The issue of legal rep...

The U.S. currently gets one percent of its electricity from wind. By 2030, it could be up to 20 percent. Billionaire T. Boone Pickens says we c...