CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A series of delays has postponed the launch of NASA’s Ares rocket, originally scheduled for lift-off at 8:24 a.m. The new target is 11:18 a.m. Launch Control reports that severe winds, with gusts over 20 knots and peaking at 22 knots, may prevent the rocket launch. …

Copenhagen, Denmark – Here in Europe there is little media coverage about North Korea’s May 25 nuclear weapons test or their increasingly frequent ballistic missile launches. There is even less mention of Pyongyang’s decision to sentence two American female journalists to 12 years of “reform through hard labor” for “committing …

After just four days as a telemarketer at Transcontinental Warranty, Mark Israel quit. He couldn’t take all the dishonesty and the “screaming and yelling” from irate consumers. A declaration from Israel, of Boca Raton, Fla., is a key component in a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit against the Florida company, …

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BERLIN – Berlin was buzzing Friday as festivities marking 20 years since the fall of the wall got under way. U2 had a public concert by the Brandenburg Gate on Thursday evening. The world’s media and world leaders are descending upon this once divided city. But beyond the party there …

When people hear about an impending meteor shower, their first impression may be of a sky filled with shooting stars pouring down like rain. Such meteor storms have actually occurred with the annual Leonid meteor shower of November, such as in 1833 and 1966, when meteor rates of literally tens …

Hangers? I mean, seriously, do we really need eco-friendly clothing hangers? “Do we ever,” says Danny Schrager, CEO of Mountain Valley Recycling in Morristown, Tenn. “Ninety percent of America’s clothes are now imported, and every garment that comes in from overseas comes in on a hanger — 30 to 40 …

You know what’s particularly insulting to me about these auto bailout hearings? Not the demeaning spectacle of the Big Three CEOs reduced to political punching bags, but the ones punching them. Look, as any semi-regular viewer of this show knows, I’m not fan of bailouts — this one, any one. …

WASHINGTON – Watching the network’s ratings plunge to its lowest levels ever, Public Broadcasting Service executives are privately raising concerns that their future may be in jeopardy, a situation that the government-funded television network’s critics don’t mind. Alarm bells first rang in February when PBS President Pat Mitchell told local …

WASHINGTON – A lawsuitlaunched Tuesday against several international banks and U.S. corporations alleges that financial support of and business deals with the apartheid government in South Africa from 1960 to 1994 was “encouraging and furthering the abuses” of the racist regime. Brought by the law offices of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld …