Francisca Terrazas could not be left alone.
She burned her foot pouring boiling water over an ant hill in her driveway. She would wander for hours searching for aluminum cans. The effects of Alzheimer’s disease had taken hold.
Minorities such as Terrazas are at greater risk for the degenerative disease, according to an Alzheimer’s Association report released [...]
If you’re looking forward to a future of streaming movies, gargantuan Internet file exchanges, and other high-bandwidth activities, cheer up.
Broadband service providers in most of the major markets around the country will soon be able to deliver 100 Mbps broadband service with no problem. That’s enough to download a music album in as little as [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday morning on an unannounced visit, as NATO-led coalition forces are pressing an offensive in the nation’s south.
Gates was scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
Coalition forces are battling Taliban fighters around the town of [...]
Votes were being counted Sunday in key elections in Iraq, marred by violence throughout the day.
Polls in Iraq to elect a 325-member parliament closed Sunday evening, capping an electoral process in which militants, intent on disrupting the vote, carried out attacks that killed 38 people.
Despite the risks, voter turnout could reach 55 percent, a senior [...]
Karl Rove, often described as President George W. Bush’s brain, defended the former president in a new book against claims that he lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq in 2003.
“[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not,” Rove wrote in his 516-page book, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative [...]
White House advisers are considering recommending alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed be tried in a military court, not a civilian one in New York, a senior administration official confirmed Friday.
This would be an about face for the Obama administration which has consistently insisted trying Mohammed in civilian court would be a powerful symbol of [...]
We already connect with friends on Facebook to share photos, videos, text updates and Web links, but might we also use the service to exchange money?
I’m willing to bet we will.
Buxter, a Facebook application that launched this week, tries to make that logical leap: Users add the app to their Facebook pages to send U.S. dollars [...]
The head of Toyota Motor Corp. told his employees on Friday that the company must begin again if it is to regain its legacy of quality that helped make it the world’s largest automotive company.
“We must make February 24, the day of U.S. congressional hearing, as the day of restart for Toyota,” said Akio Toyoda, [...]
The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are just too dangerous.
Several universities issued similar warnings last year, but this was the first time the Texas law enforcement agency had issued the specific advisory against travel, said [...]
British defense contractor BAE Systems has pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and was ordered to pay a $400 million criminal fine, authorities announced.
A top Justice Department official said the fine is one of the largest criminal fines ever levied in the United States against a company for business-related violations.
BAE [...]
