Vincent J. Schodolski

Distinctly lowering the temperature in what has become an increasingly heated contest, Republican presidential candidates put on their positive faces in a debate Thursday, hoping to attract rather than repel...

With their Mars Polar Lander presumed dead, NASA bosses said Tuesday that they were scrapping their timetable for future missions and rethinking their entire Mars exploration program. NASA has spent...

Too many children and not enough fathers remain here, amid the charred ruins of their rural village near the western Kosovar town of Decani. Most of the village men died...

The decision by a leading gunmaker to stop producing some of its handguns for sale to the public indicates that the firearms industry, like the tobacco industry, is concerned about...

Four years after it began with a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean, after millions of dollars paid to lawyers who munched lobster dinners in Saipan, after the case of...

Allstate Corp. could pay more than $120 million as part of a settlement last week to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the insurer of overcharging for some homeowners policies in...

The thunderous shock came at 4:31 a.m., knocking an apartment building six feet off its foundation, tossing a 64-car freight train like a toy and buckling five major highways. Some...

If you can arrange for an extraterrestrial to take a bike ride and conjure a theme park full of digital dinosaurs, surely you can arrange a Hollywood fundraiser for a...

For Lisa Ramos, her battle against "corporate greed" is the moral equivalent of her parents' youthful struggle against the Vietnam War. "My mom and dad fought the moral battle during...

There is an air of confidence that emanates from the dazzling new kitchens of the Culinary Institute of America here in the Napa Valley that is as palpable as the...