Trillions of plastic pieces found in Arctic ice
Arctic Ocean ice may hold trillions of small pieces of plastic and other synthetic trash, and they are being released into the world's oceans as global warming melts the polar...
Jury finds ex-soldier eligible for death penalty
HONOLULU (AP) — A federal jury has decided a former Hawaii soldier convicted of murder is eligible for the death penalty, in the first capital case in the history of...
Never-before-seen meteor shower set to appear tonight
Coming to a circumpolar constellation near you: An all-new, never-before-seen, awkwardly named meteor shower that just might knock your astronomical socks off. It's called the Camelopardalid meteor shower, and...
Flight diverts to Phoenix for unruly passenger
PHOENIX -- An American Airlines flight diverted its course and landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Thursday because of an unruly passenger, according to the Phoenix Police Department....
U.S. Coast Guard: Missing British yacht’s hull found
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship has located the overturned hull of a British yacht that went missing last week in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but officials...
Canadian clinic confirms Toronto mayor’s in rehab
TORONTO (AP) — A rehab facility in a small Ontario town has confirmed that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is undergoing treatment at its clinic. GreenStone Clinic Muskoka in Bala,...
US: Officers arrest naked man at White House gate
Protestors are occasionally arrested outside of the White House gate -- but very few of them are naked, as happened Friday. Secret Service police arrested a man who stripped...
US: VA treats 2,500 transgender veterans
WASHINGTON — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, an inmate at the Army's prison at Fort Leavenworth, may have more luck receiving treatment after serving her sentence and being drummed out of the...
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford spotted in Ontario town
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was spotted in a small Ontario town Friday despite his lawyer insisting that the embattled leader of Canada's biggest city is still in...
One man arrested as California fires rage
As cooler weather helped firefighters make gains against a string of dangerous wildfires raging in Southern California, police announced an arrest in connection with one of the blazes that broke...