Reuters. Live on Chinese State Television, a Chinese countdown. 6,5,4,3,2,1, 点火 And the Long March Rockets carrying a Shenzhou 7 spacecraft with three astronauts launches from a remote site in northwest China. The astronauts plan to make a space...
At the New California Academy of Sciences in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park, you can see all the colorful creatures youd expect to find inside a top-notch aquarium or museum, but its the outside of the building that truly makes it unique. It's as if...
One afternoon, the Friday afternoon fire that raced through a building in Chinatown, housing the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago. WGN's Tom Louis has the latest. The Fire Department got a 911 call around two this afternoon, heavy smoke and flames...
For the fifth straight day, angry parents lined up outside the headquarters of dairy company Sanlu to demand compensation after the government discovered it was using a poisonous industrial chemical in its baby formula. They need to resolve the probl...
Millions of Americans are getting raised today. Not you, Jon. The federal minimum wage's increasing by 70 cents. The jump from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour is the second of three annual increases that were required by law. Next year's boost will bring the...
We used to have five major Wall Street firms, now we are down to two, and the meltdown of the three that we've seen, although Merrill by the way is not a meltdown. It was sold at a premium and a big number actually, which is, I think, has been underr...
Reuters. On the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, America paused to remember the almost 3000 people who were killed on that sunny Tuesday morning. Relatives of victims killed at the World Trade Center gathered at Ground Zero in Lower Manhat...
A US intelligence official says North Korean leader Kim Jong Il may have suffered a stroke and may in fact be gravely ill. And this is sparking all of this speculation because he failed to show up at a celebration marking his country's 60th anniversa...
(Hey, how are you? How are you doing? What's going on?) Taylor Swift: Seeing Britney tonight will be amazing. I met her once when I was 15, and she just came off like such a sweet person. And I want her to win. I want Britney to take the world over a...
Its 50-foot high and can move up to 2 miles an hour. This giant spider must be many peoples worst nightmare. And its on the loose at Liverpool for the next three days. La Princess's built as the largest piece of street theater ever staged in the UK....
Centre stage at this year's IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin is the device that has long had a central spot in people's homes. Televisions may seem like the most familiar of technologies, but both form and function are undergoing a significant...
The question on everyones mind as they evacuated inland, I think, was is history about to repeat? We want help! We want help! Gustav hasn't hit yet, but inevitably people will compare the response to this storm to the Katrina response three years ago...
With prices at the pump up nearly a dollar in the past year, there are now lots of Americans offering gas-guzzling cars for sale at bargain prices. But as we hear from CNBC's Phil LeBeau downsizing to a model that seems more fuel-efficient could cost...
Three years ago today, hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf shore, creating unprecedented damage. Now fears that Tropical Storm Gustav could be eyeing the same general region. Currently an evacuation order is not in effect for New Orleans. But May...
First we wanna talk about Hillary Clintons big night. How did it go, it will be analyzed all day long. NBCs chief White House correspondent David Gregory is here in the Convention Center and hes got more on that. David, good morning to you. Good morn...
