CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — NASA is moving up the unveiling of the first humanoid robot in space.
Space station astronaut Catherine Coleman said Friday everyone wants to get R2, the robot, out as soon as possible. R2 flew to the International Space Station aboard Discovery.
In a phone call Thursday, President Barack Obama teased the astronauts for waiting to unpack the …
President Barack Obama demanded that BP set up a compensation fund for the oil-tainted Gulf Coast and prepared for his first Oval Office address to the nation as he tried to get a handle on the environmental disaster threatening to overwhelm his administration.
White House officials announced the steps Sunday as Obama prepared for his fourth visit to the tortured Gulf. They came at a pivotal moment in the catastrophe, with the enormity of the oil spill in sharper focus from more accurate measurements and no end in sight until relief wells are completed in August.
That means the nation must settle in for a long, hot summer of oil and gas spewing relentlessly …
I think there's something wrong with me, beyond the usual stuff.
I've tried very hard to play along for almost three weeks now, but I simply can't figure out why the injured racehorse Barbaro is still such a topic of global intrigue. He (it's a "he") has reportedly received thousands of e-mails, and is still covered daily in newspapers. But that's not all.
Take the last line in a recent New York Times editorial by Jane Schwartz: "Perhaps the real miracle-the one that matters to all of us, whether we know it or not-is that so many of us are still capable of caring so much." Now stick your muzzle in this one, which capped an AP story that ran internationally last week: …
Rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have decreased to their lowest levels in more than 21 months, the U.S. military said Monday.
Last month saw 369 "indirect fire" attacks _ the lowest number since February 2006. October's total was half of what it was in the same month a year ago. And it marked the third month in a row of sharply reduced insurgent activity, the military said.
The U.S. command issued the tallies a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said suicide attacks and other bombings in Baghdad also have dropped dramatically, calling it an end of sectarian violence.
A top U.S. general said he believed the drop was …
Honda Motor Co. said Thursday it will further cut vehicle production in North America as it adjusts to plunging automobile demand.
Tokyo-based Honda is reducing production by another 119,000 vehicles for its fiscal year ending March 31, bringing expected production for the fiscal year to 1.3 million units.
Honda spokesman Ed Miller said the cuts will take place at five of Honda's seven plants in the U.S. and Canada. Employees at the plants will be given other tasks or can take paid or unpaid vacation time, he said. No layoffs will result from the cuts, he said.
Another Honda spokesman, Ron Lietzke, said production will be scaled back at the …
Eight months into a tumultuous year, J. Walter Thompson Co. isstarting to put its house in order, and a reorganization involvingthe Chicago office management is a major step.
As expected, Alan Webb has been named general manager ofJWT/Chicago, succeeding Donald G. Sullivan. Webb, 47, is anexecutive vice president of the advertising agency and for the pastyear has been one of two executive creative directors, sharingresponsibility for the department with John Scott.
Sullivan is taking the new title of vice chairman of JWT/USA,responsible for new business and agency marketing programs. Sullivanwill be operating out of New York, but he will be commuting from …
DULUTH, Minn. - The case against Jammie Thomas is expected to go to jurors today. Six major record companies accuse Thomas, 30, of sharing 1,702 songs online in violation of the companies' copyrights. The record companies claim they found the songs on a Kazaa file-sharing account they later linked to her.
After two days of testimony from 11 witnesses, the defense rested without calling anyone to the stand, and closing arguments in the civil trial are scheduled for this morning.
U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said he would decide then whether the record companies would have to prove the songs were actually transferred to any other users for jurors to find Thomas liable. …
