INKSTER, Mich. – A 116-year-old woman deemed the world’s oldest person has died in Michigan. Jeralean Talley died Wednesday at her home in the Detroit suburb of Inkster. Her daughter, Thelma Holloway, confirmed the death. Holloway said Thursday her mother was recently hospitalized and treated for fluid in her lungs, …

When it comes to telling the rest of the world how it must behave in order to save the planet from environmental calamity, and lobbying for trillion-dollar solutions to those problems, no organization in the world makes greater claims to being the leading authority — and global arbiter — than …

When Chris and Thelma DiMattio bought their new house in swanky Wilton, Connecticut a few months ago, they were thrilled. The longtime Wilton residents didn’t have to uproot their family, and they got a really great deal on the home at a foreclosure auction. They picked up their last house …

The bizarre, newly-revealed squidworm — a free-swimming worm with up to 10 squid-like limbs — is one of a host of strange discoveries that await scientists in the vast, largely unexplored spaces of the deep ocean. New anatomical and genetic analysis of the squidworm (Teuthidodrilus samae) has revealed it to …

North America’s biggest dinosaur has been unearthed. And it looks like it once called New Mexico home. The revelation of the massive titanosaurus was documented in a recent issue of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica published on Dec. 6. Co-authors Denver Fowler, a researcher from Montana State University, and Robert M. Sullivan, …

A new four-part miniseries on the Discovery Channel peels back the millennia and the skin, revealing a never before seen look at the birth and death of dinosaurs. Researchers have made incredible leaps in the last year or two, learning previously unknown details about how the giant creatures were born, …

Chris Brown might be the most hated man on Twitter this week. After the singer’s big win and two performances at the Grammy Awards Sunday, celebrities and music fans alike have taken to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to lambaste Brown for his history of domestic violence against …

There has been a dramatic shift in the U.S. government’s priorities from last year’s G-20 summits to the conclusion of this year’s summit. Increased government spending was one of the four “agreements” reached at last year’s G-20 summits in London and Pittsburgh, which President Obama articulated and reiterated frequently after …

With a strong democratic tradition and an equally strong history of confidence in our institutions, the American people – on both the right and the left – have long believed with absolute confidence that the United States is immune to the kind of threat to stability that has rocked and …

As it rushed headlong into the brave new world of social media, the United Nations Secretariat for years apparently kept its legal department out of the loop in signing up for services like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, resulting in potential leaks of delicate internal information, among other things, according …