The sound of childrens' voices filled the laboratory as 15 elementary schoolers craned their necks to see Chirp the chinchilla cradled in teacher Kendra Hunding's arms. The children are part of a group...

At 10 a.m. today, U.S. Capitol Officer Jacob J. Chestnut's funeral procession will leave Fort Washington on its way to Arlington National Cemetery. Chestnut will be laid to rest with Detective John M....

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Fidel Castro and one of his most outspoken foes in the Caribbean buried their differences Thursday in a meeting that reflected the Cuban leader's triumphant push for regional...

Their SAT scores make high school teachers giddy. The best colleges will court them. Corporations will pay them richly. And for the past two weeks, they've been at the University working and studying...

ROME (AP) -- Two U.S. Navy fighter jets collided Thursday over the Mediterranean during routine operations, and one crewman died after ejecting from a jet that crashed. After the collision, one of the...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- After a six-day highway standoff, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that police held her down, took the wheel of her car and drove her back to the capital against her...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Monica Lewinsky has been given blanket immunity in exchange for testimony in Kenneth Starr's six-month investigation of her relationship with President Clinton, Lewinsky's attorneys...

From the possibility of human cloning to the popularity of Viagra, health insurance companies are being forced to decide what new technologies their plans will cover. Jeffrey Kahn, program director for...

Experts say if you can clone a mouse you can clone a human. University of Hawaii scientists say cloning mice is even more difficult than cloning humans, but the recent experiment proves to be far more...

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) -- Explosions on Tuesday shook a coal-fired generating plant that supplies power to Chicago, starting a fire that took six hours to extinguish and making lights flicker across the city....