It had been a very special treat: a Monday night trip with his father to watch the Buffalo Bills.

After sleeping in the next morning, 13-year-old Joshua Dusinberre and his little brother, Dylan, were riding home to his mother's house when their car flew off the snowy crest of a country road, careered down an embankment and sank in seconds in a 12-foot-deep backyard pond, authorities said.

China has stepped up computer espionage against the US government and American businesses, according to a Washington congressional panel.

Using a racially derogatory term, Al Qaeda's second-in-command disparaged US President-elect Barack Obama in an apparent effort to deflate high expectations among Muslims that relations between the United ...

The Bush Administration's push for "midnight regulations" in the last moments of office continues.

In the next 24 hours, the Bush is expected to relax requirements for federal environmental officials to sign off on building projects that pose a threat to species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Publishing the rules by tomorrow means they would take effect before President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration. Otherwise, Obama could simply decide not to put them into practice. .