The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon.
A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at...
An outbreak of gonorrhea across Alaska that began in 2009 is continuing this year, and health officials say they are trying new ways to curb it.
Between 2008 and 2009, the number of gonorrhea cases in Alaska rose an alarming 69 percent, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
Both Democrat Barney Frank and the GOP’s Ron Paul are seeking defense cuts. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, Representatives Barney Frank, the unabashedly liberal Democrat from Newton, and Ron Paul, an outspoken libertarian Republican from Texas, formed an unlikely alliance aimed at slashing the defense budget to...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- General Motors Co. said the underwriters of its recent initial public offering have exercised their overallotment of an additional 71.7 million shares of common stock, bringing the total size of the deal to $23.1 billion.
The additional shares were worth $2.37 billion. The underwriters also exercised the right to...
(CNN) -- Apple's iPad tablet computer -- one of the hottest items of the holiday shopping season -- got a price cut on the company's website Friday.
People who buy the iPad online Friday will save $41, making the lowest price for the device $458 for a model without a 3G connection and with 16 gigabytes of storage space. The top-end model, with a...
