Airport pat-downs may raise infection risk
As screening procedures get stricter and more passengers opt for pat-downs instead of graphic X-rays, the likelihood of bacteria being spread increases.
As screening procedures get stricter and more passengers opt for pat-downs instead of graphic X-rays, the likelihood of bacteria being spread increases.
The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters.
It was bound to happen. A quiet backlash is brewing amongst the people who love “Pat Downs,” enjoy “Pat Downs” and, gadzooks, have even become parents because of loving encounters with “Pat Downs.”
International diplomats scrambled Tuesday to defuse tensions after North Korea bombarded a South Korean island with artillery shells, killing at least two people. President Barack Obama pledged the United States would defend Seoul from aggression by it…
Can Haiti overcome a plethora of logistical issues to ensure a free and fair vote?
Researchers in India, a country that is home to more than half the world’s remaining wild tigers, say they may have developed a highly cost-effective model for conducting a tiger census, and it’s all about the number two . Tiger “number two,” that is.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vampires, beware: Buffy is coming back. A remake of the horror comedy “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is in the works at Warner Bros., the studio said Tuesday. A studio spokeswoman says the project is in the earliest stages of developmen…
Polar bears are likely to lose out to grizzly bears in fierce competition for food as climate change drives the two species closer together into shared habitat, biologists conclude.
"Primetime" goes inside the world of celebrity plastic surgery to discover if it has gone too far.With shocking revelations from Hollywood stars who have gone under the knife, ABC News will air an hour-long special on the subject enti…
Teen Mom star Amber Portwood’s daughter is now a ward of the state of Indiana, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
It’s a dramatic development in the ongoing saga of the MTV star, whose troubled life has played out on national TV.
Portwood and…
LONDON (AP) — Ingrid Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and dodged Communist police to become one of Britain's best-known horror stars, died Tuesday, her daughter said. She was 73. Steffanie Pitt said her mother collapsed while on her w…
Haiti’s deadly cholera epidemic is spreading faster than originally estimated and is likely to result in hundreds of thousands of cases and last up to a year, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
Stocks fell as a flare-up of tensions between North and South Korea combined with downbeat news on the economy gave investors plenty of reasons to sell ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Passengers on Fort Lauderdale-based flight complained potty breaks were weird.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama's latest book may not outsell “The Audacity of Hope,” but it's off to a good start. Random House Children's Books announced Tuesday that “Of Thee I Sing,” a picture book Obama wrote before he was p…
Half of Americans say the enhanced passenger security pat-downs at U.S. airports go too far, according to a poll published on Tuesday just before the busy holiday travel season.
“Tangled” star Mandy Moore tweets about her new movie and more.
mandy moore arrives at the 2010 american music awards held at nokia theatre l.a. live on november 21, 2010 in los angeles, california.
mandy moore attends the world p…