Joan Templeman, wife of Virgin businessman Richard Branson, dies at 80 4.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Hawaii's Big Island All those big layoff announcements aren’t showing up so far in jobless ...

Nuclear power “could arguably increase proliferation risk by at least a little,” Touran said. But he doesn’t think it’s a ...

Today in History for Nov. 23: In 1621, poet John Donne was elected dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial entity to repudiate the ...

The U.S. Geological Survey says a 6.0-magnitude earthquake has rocked south central Alaska. The quake struck Thursday morning about 7 miles west-northwest of Susitna, an area northwest of Anchorage, a ...

Earthquakes don’t occur everywhere. They occur along the boundaries of the earth’s tectonic plates, along either known active faults or dormant faults. The East Coast is crisscrossed with ancient ...

More than a decade after a powerful quake devastated Haiti in 2010, the region's complex geology has sent the island into yet another spate of deadly convulsions. An intense magnitude 7.2 earthquake ...