About four years ago, the inventive minds at Google worked to develop cars driven by computers, a technology they said would be ready for the masses in the future, but no state had even considered whether driverless cars should be legal.
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When the confetti flew, the two boys stood in the center of the stage and shook hands. They held up the trophy together. Both were champions, a Spelling Bee finish unseen in more than half a century.
Following the gang rape and slaying of two teenage cousins found hanging from a tree in northern India, a third suspect has been identified and arrested by police in a case that has triggered national outrage.
After being held for nearly five years by the Taliban after being captured in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been released into U.S. custody and the U.S. is turning over five Taliban detainees to the custody of Qatar as part of the deal.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating possible insider trading involving high-profile Las Vegas developer and gambler Bill Walters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, and golfer Phil Mickelson, a source familiar with the matter said.
Officers raiding a Georgia home in search of a drug suspect used a flash grenade not knowing children were inside, severely burning a toddler who was sleeping just inside the door, authorities and the boy’s family said.
Law officers who visited Elliot Rodger three weeks before he killed six college students near a Santa Barbara university were aware that he had posted disturbing videos but didn’t watch them because he seemed OK when they visited him.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday in a personal meeting with President Barack Obama, shortly after publicly apologizing for deep problems plaguing the agency’s health care system that Obama called “totally unacceptable.”
Shelley Sterling, half owner of the Los Angeles Clippers has reached a “binding agreement” to sell the basketball team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.
The unraveling corruption cases in New Zealand sports, business and politics have sullied the country’s record as “world’s least corrupt nation for eight years straight by the watchdog group Transparency International.”
Forty-one people in Philadelphia are facing charges in what prosecutors call an elaborate insurance fraud scheme that used dead deer to fake car accidents.
Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.
An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant salmonella linked to a California chicken company hasn’t run its course after more than a year, with 50 new illnesses in the past two months and 574 people sickened since March 2013.
Google will build a car without a steering wheel. It doesn’t need one because it drives itself.
About 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off the official waiting list at the troubled Phoenix veterans hospital, the Veterans Affairs watchdog said Wednesday. A report cited an average 115-day wait for a first appointment for those on the waiting list.
