By SCOTT SHANE

Published: August 25, 2011

Ali H. Soufan, left, who as an F.B.I. agent spent years near the center of battle with Al Qaeda.

WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to…

By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: August 24, 2011

WASHINGTON — The pace and scope of…

In the latest incident involving violence by families of deceased patients, a hospital staff in Nanchang fights back. Some say the protests are a ploy for money.

August 24, 2011 |  6:56 pm…

US software…

(AP) -- The arrangement of nearly 3,000 names at the World Trade Center memorial is now available as a free iPhone app.

The guide to the names was placed online in May. It will be available on electronic kiosks when the memorial opens next month, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. It includes biographical information about each of the victims.

The names are inscribed on bronze parapets where the towers stood.

Memorial President Joe Daniels…

August 24, 2011

The face-freezing pharmaceutical injection Botox gained another medical use on Wednesday when the US government approved it for use in some patients with overactive bladder.

The new application was given the nod by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat people with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury who suffer from…

The New York Times

By FERNANDA SANTOS

Published: August 23, 2011

Nearly 780 employees of the New York City…

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

Published: August 23, 2011

WASHINGTON — Agents of the…

August 24, 2011 | 12:39 pm First, President Obama's…

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated Press investigation has found.

By MATT APUZZO and…

For the first time anyone can recall, state government employment has shrunk for two years in a row, shedding nearly 4,700 full-time jobs since 2009, more than 7 percent of the workforce.

By Andrew Garber

Seattle Times Olympia bureau…

Many high schools have banished their old "vo-tech" programs for students not aiming for college. Now the education world is embracing the marriage of classrooms with partners in business and industry — both sides spurred by economic realities.

By Joe Robertson

McClatchy Newspapers

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

Peggy…

U.S. commentator attracts crowd of some 3,000 people at Caesarea amphitheater; show includes guest speakers historian David Barton, Efrat founder Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and author Mike Evans.

	U.S. commentator Glenn Beck appearing in Caesarea on Sunday August 21, 2011.
	Photo by: Hagai…

Once the stuff of science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, facial recognition technology has become one of the newest tools in marketing, even though privacy concerns abound.

NEC employee Olga Foster demonstrates a facial recognition system's ability to estimate her age, gender and race. NEC makes display screens used for facial recognition-driven ads. (NEC Corp. /…

Take a virtual tour of New York on Google Maps and some blurry images appear.

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.

Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed nearly 7 million jobs.

The…

Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:05pm EDT

* Latest in a series of mishaps for space industry

* $265 mln orbiter described as Europe's most powerful ever

(Updates with cost of satellite, expert opinion)…