Former Oakland Athletics player Randy Velarde leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building after testifying in the Barry Bonds perjury trial in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Are food dyes linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children? The Food and Drug Administration is publicly considering that question for the first time in years.

In first public statement since riots began, Syrian president says his country is the target of a major US, Israeli conspiracy. By Jack Khoury and Avi Issacharoff Syrian President Bashar Assad spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since the ...

In the epic event that was last week's 'American Idol' results show, the judges chose to use the only 'save' of the season to hang on to Casey Abrams for another week - and rightfully so.

AP - Mar 30, 8:41 pm EDT AP - Mar 30, 8:28 pm EDT AP - Mar 30, 8:28 pm EDT The Rockets cruised in a 112-87 win over New Jersey on Tuesday night, moving them within two games of eighth-place Memphis in the ...

Judy Sheindlin, aka television's Judge Judy, was rushed to the hospital Wednesday morning after complaining of intestinal discomfort.

(Adds comments from Cephalon spokeswoman and closing stock prices, in the fifth, sixth and 11th paragraphs.) By Thomas Gryta and Peter Loftus Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.'s (VRX, VRX.

Signage is displayed at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG) agreed to settle US Federal Trade Commission claims ...

By AP Andy Greene's goal with 4 minutes 56 seconds left snapped a tie and lifted the Devils to a 3-2 win over the Islanders in Newark on Wednesday night, keeping the Devils alive in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

According to sources, Microsoft is joining Google and Apple in the race to integrate NFC mobile payments technology into its smartphone platform, Windows Phone.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - State and federal health officials are investigating the deaths of nine patients at Alabama hospitals who were all given an intravenous nutritional supplement that investigators have found was ...

WASHINGTON - NASA celebrated hundreds of stunning photographs from the Mercury MESSENGER probe as it began a year-long mission to orbit and map the solar system's mysterious innermost planet.

About one third of Americans are not getting enough vitamin D, a government report says. Drink up: Fortified orange juice is rich in vitamin D. Drink up: Fortified orange juice is rich in vitamin D. The report, ...

Taking a cue from Facebook's popular "Like" button, Google (GOOG) on Wednesday announced a new option for its users to recommend individual search results to their friends and contacts.

An aerial handout photograph taken on Thursday, March 24, 2011, from an unmanned airplane, shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima ...

A top Dell marketeer says that Apple's "magical and revolutionary" fondleslab is doomed to enterprise irrelevancy, and an HP senior vice president blasted Apple's partner policies as being "just absurd.

A legal adviser to Ivorian incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo says the renewed UN sanctions imposed Wednesday on the embattled leader are, in his words, highly unlikely to force Gbagbo to step down and cede power to the internationally-recognized ...

Looking for the healthiest county in Central Florida? Then head for Seminole County, which is the second-healthiest in the state. In a ranking of the state's 67 counties, Collier County - home of Naples and Marco ...