Science editor Alan Boyle: The planet Venus shines like a "pale yellow dot" in a pair of eye-popping pictures of Saturn from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Is the baby breathing? Most new moms are anxious, but a new study finds that 11 percent may suffer from obsessive-compulsive symptoms, compared with 2 percent to 3 percent in the general population.

After an 87-year-old collapsed at an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, Calif., last week, a nurse called 911 but didn't perform CPR, citing policy. She should have done it anyway, writes bioethicist Arthur Caplan.

Forget the “sequester.” There’s a campaign going on involving accusations of corruption, bankruptcy, race and President Obama, gender politics, grave-digging, and even drilling for oil in Beverly Hills.

CBT: It’s official: for the first time in school history, Gonzaga is the top team in the country. But the Bulldogs may not be deserving of a No. 1 seed in the tourmanent.

As a demolition crew picks away at a house where a sinkhole opened and swallowed a man, the brother who jumped into the chasm and tried to save him says he is frustrated that authorities haven’t done more to retrieve the body.

The call came late on Monday night. "More than 70 police raided our (guest house)," said former policeman He Zuhua. "Police are everywhere.

The death of a 14-year-old girl who has become the poster child for banning caffeine-fueled energy drinks can't be blamed on the beverages, lawyers for the Monster Beverage Corp. said Monday.

More than 11 years had passed since my first Afghan assignment, over the Kyber Pass from Pakistan and then into Jalalabad days after the Taliban had fled; the arc of America’s longest war.

Methane gas from the sea floor caused a foul odor on Sunday that prompted nearly 100 emergency calls from residents reporting the stench from Santa Monica to West Los Angeles, officials said.

The four-year-old boy of a sheriff’s deputy in northern Michigan accidentally shot and killed himself over the weekend, local media reports say.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says U.S. airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays as a result of automatic federal spending cuts.

Casey Anthony appeared in public Monday for the first time since being acquitted of murdering her two-year old daughter Caylee in 2011.

First Read: President Barack Obama nominated three more members of his second-term cabinet Monday, formally unveiling his choices to head the Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Energy Department.

A lot of numbers are being tossed around in the raucous debate over the sequester, but there’s no agreement on the correct number to describe the size of the spending cuts required by the 2011 Budget Control Act.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth left a London hospital Monday, less than a day after being admitted for a stomach bug. The queen had experienced symptoms of gastroenteritis, according to Buckingham Palace.