Severe winter weather outbreaks are more likely due in part to the seemingly far-off problem of melting sea ice in the Arctic, according to Cornell earth scientists.

More than $1 million in public and private funds have been spent over the last year or so to renovate university residences of several new California State University presidents ...

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More than eight months after Occupy Wall Street burst onto the global stage, decrying income inequality and coining the phrase We are the 99 percent, the movement's survival and continued relevance

In early 2009, Josh Zelesnick, an adjunct who taught English composition and writing at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University, started working at a Trader Joe’s when one of his classes was canceled days before a semester

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A foie gras frenzy is under way in California as the state prepares to become the first in America to ban the controversial delicacy.

John Pearson’s Oldsmobile gets maybe 21 miles to the gallon. His school car – a custom-built, carbon-fiber test vehicle – is a bit more efficient: It could, in the right conditions, exceed 2,000 mpg.

Rarely is a more diverse collection of people found under one roof than the 500 or so working around the clock last weekend at the United Nations.