Sam Safa is $75,000 richer today, and someone who recently ventured into his modest convenience store in Merrimack, N.H., is $560 million richer after winning the sixth-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
More than $1 billion in jackpots could be claimed as soon as Monday after Mega Millions and Powerball each had...
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The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke cold temperature records from Maine to West Virginia and stunned sea turtles in Florida — although a warm-up is coming Monday.
Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine set records, with Burlington falling to minus 20, beating...
SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government tonight (Jan. 8), successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Jan. 9) from Cape Canaveral...
State geologists studying the landslide risks at the Rattlesnake Ridge area estimate an "event" will occur between January 14 and February 28.
State geologists studying the landslide risks at the Rattlesnake Ridge area in Yakima County estimate an "event" could occur as early as next Sunday.
"Based on monitoring data, geologists...
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - Rescue crews scrambled to bring a blaze on an Iranian oil tanker off China’s east coast under control on Monday as fire raged for a second day following a collision with a grain ship, while the U.S. Navy joined the search for 32 missing crew.
Concerns were...
Asian stock markets have risen after Wall Street's strong week as investors look ahead to data releases from China, Japan and the Eurozone.
Asian stock markets rose Monday following Wall Street's strong week as traders looked ahead to data releases from China, Japan and the Eurozone.
KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite...
NEW YORK/LONDON - Gold extended its rally to a three-month high on Friday, leaping toward its biggest one-year rise in seven years as a wilting U.S. dollar, political tensions and receding concerns over the impact of U.S. interest rate hikes fed into its rally.
Gold’s gains coincide with the greenback,...
Visible supermoons—full moons that appear when the moon is at its closest orbital point to Earth—aren’t very rare. Having three in a certainly row is.
And that’s exactly what astronomy fans are being treated to this winter.
The first supermoon appeared when the moon swung by Earth 26,500 km (approximately 16,500...
People who experience frequent migraines may soon have access to a new class of drugs.
In a pair of large studies, two drugs that tweak brain circuits involved in migraine each showed they could reduce the frequency of attacks without causing side effects, researchers report in the New England Journal...
TOKYO - Japan’s economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter due to strong exports, posting the longest period of uninterrupted growth in more than a decade.
The economy expanded at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in July-September, slightly above the median estimate for annualized growth of 1.3 percent,...
