A woman died Thursday after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) boat collided with a suspected people-smuggling vessel off the southern California coast. Authorities said they spotted the small panga motorboat before dawn off the coast of Encinitas, Calif. They said it was crowded with 20 people believed to …

CAIRO, Egypt – As Egypt struggles to return to normal just three days after former president Hosni Mubarak resigned, hundreds of government workers went on strike Monday over wages and corruption. The Egyptian transition government, led by the army, tried to contain a wave of protesters who defied orders not …

A research team led by a Brown University professor has shed new light on the evolutionary history of bilateral organisms. In a study published last week, the team, led by Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn, used a San Diego supercomputer and new DNA sequencing techniques to establish Acoelomorpha flatworms …

At last, the diversity of ocean life has been exhaustively (and expensively) cataloged — or has it? The results of a decade-long, first-of-its-kind accounting of the world’s oceans were published Monday, revealing the remarkable diversity of life in the world’s waters. But scientists say there’s much more we don’t know …

America and Europe have come together with one motto in mind — Mars or Bust: 2016. On the deep space road trip, the latest collaboration between the European Space Administration (ESA) and NASA, the space agencies will send an orbiter and a descent and landing module to brave the red …

Searchlight, Nevada – Nevada is largely desert, yet a unique new building floats on water there — and it’s raising eyebrows. It’s built of rice hulls, Styrofoam, and recycled tires, and it’s still as solid as any other structure — well, any structure that’s literally floating in the middle of …

Recently, in Mexico, the candidates for mayor of the Mexican city of Guadalajara included a famous Mexican clown named Lagrimita. And in the United States, now that Donald Trump has filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission, the ranks of Republican presidential hopefuls expanded to include an anti-Mexican …

Since when does a law firm need a bank to save it from falling for a Nigerian scam? That’s the case in Minnesota, where a firm of legal eagles that got tricked out of nearly $400,000 in a scam that has cost more than 80 law firms and attorneys some …

The increasingly adversarial debt negotiations on Capitol Hill have both parties anxious to settle the budget debate. Republicans want to seriously cut entitlement spending, while Democrats are looking to raise government revenue through eliminating tax loopholes and certain deductions and increasing some taxes. As the debate continues there are several …

President Obama’s only claim to reelection is that he and his team steadied America during its time of economic uncertainty and are, albeit slowly, growing the economy. Friday’s anemic jobs numbers show that in fact the economy is not recovering, but rather, unfortunately slipping away, and with the state of …