The growing use of unmanned "eyes in the sky" is raising many privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what to do about civilian drones.

The automatic budget cuts that grounded the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds are taking a toll on performers, air show announcers, concessionaires, vendors and others who depend on air shows and the millions of spectators.

The United Nation's food agency is pushing a new super food group.

Your mother always told you to wash your hands, but she probably never mentioned your handbag.

The first Tropical Storm of the 2013 Pacific Tropical Season is no longer a tropical system.

Habitat for Humanity says the house it had just finished building and was going to hand over to its new owners this weekend was destroyed in Wednesday night's tornadoes in North Texas.

If your kids are couch potatoes, an upcoming study in The Journal of Pediatrics recommends using "excer-gaming" to improve their health.

The House Committee on Agriculture last night advanced a new five-year Farm Bill that included reforms championed by U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL).

House Republicans are looking at a student loan system that would give students lower interest rates in coming years but would cost students more over time.

Federal health officials say they want to overhaul federally funded child care facilities across the country, beefing up safety standards for employees and requiring states to better monitor the facilities.

BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls spurious compensation claims stemming from the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), ranking member of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today delivered the following statement at a subcommittee hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s budget request for fiscal year 2014:

Seeking answers on the response of U.S. Armed Forces in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL), is continuing its oversight of the matter.

Opportunity to repeal costly law “once and for all”.

A new GPS satellite has been launched into space.

Emily Beaver is pretty talented at running long distances. And it turns out she can juggle as well. So why not combine the two, it's called joggling.

Telescopes mounted on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded two flares from the Sun on Sunday (May 12), one of which was the largest of the year.

The White House has released 100 pages of documents about the crafting of its public talking points about the deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya last September.

Forecasters say the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season is strengthening off the coast of Mexico.

Officials say at least six people were killed when a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

Leaders of two conservative political groups in Georgia say they say faced invasive questioning from the Internal Revenue Service.

Experts say smartphones are becoming increasingly popular not only with consumers, but also with scammers.

The National Hurricane Center has released its annual list of storm names.

Breakout, a video game released by Atari in 1976, can now be found and played online through the simple use of a popular search engine.

Triangle drivers could see less congestion when road crews begin overhauling an 11.5-mile stretch of Interstates 40 and 440 early in 2014, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said Tuesday.