PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – As U.S. gasoline prices hit records on almost a daily basis, an increasing number of motorists are following a radical driving technique designed to eke out every last mile from a tank of fuel.
Known as ‘hypermiling,’ the method can double gas mileage, even in gas-guzzling vehicles that would normally get less than [...]

Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq.
According to the latest reports, 151 members of Congress invested close to a [...]

PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) — The U.S. space agency says a motor in the robotic arm of its Mars rover Opportunity that began stalling more than two years ago has become more troublesome.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are diagnosing why the motor, one of five in the [...]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sen. Hillary Clinton scored a big victory in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, defeating Sen. Barack Obama in the first showdown between the White House hopefuls in six weeks.
Clinton, D-N.Y., was looking to win a decisive victory in the Keystone State to give a badly needed boost to her faltering campaign against [...]

A giant and unusual underwater volcano lies just offshore of Iceland on the Reykjanes Ridge, volcanologists have announced.
The Reykjanes formation is a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which bisects the Atlantic Ocean where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are pulling apart.
As magma wells up from the rift between the plates, it cools to [...]

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (First Coast News) – Locals in St. Augustine are used to planes flying over head, after all they are close to an airport. But, on Saturday night, locals say there was something else flying through the sky.
Brandon Puckett, a 12 year old resident of St. Augustine Beach thinks it was pretty neat [...]

The first annual Mysteries of the Universe Conference is scheduled for June 7 in Kansas City, Missouri at the Intrigue Park Place Hotel from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm. The conference is the first of its type to be held in the area, and was sparked by the recent flurry of UFO activity in the [...]

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — All but a few of the betting windows at Fonner Park are shuttered. The patrons, mostly older, study Daily Racing Forms and programs at folding tables. Some mill about the drab concourse. Some sit in the enclosed grandstand.
Outside, about a half-dozen fans watch along the track apron as the horses head [...]

MONTPELIER, Vt. —  Vermont’s love-hate relationship with its lone nuclear power plant is coming to a head: Lawmakers have to decide next year whether to shut down the reactor in 2012 as scheduled or keep it humming for another two decades.
Vermont is as known for its green living as its green landscapes, and some environmentalists in [...]

An unidentified flying object was reported to have hovered over southern Gran Canaria early on the morning of March 14 and was seen by dozens of people on their drive to work.
Traffic is said to have slowed down and some vehicles even pulled over as drivers tried to get a better look at the phenomenon.
One [...]

Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
"I didn’t say it as well as I should have," he said at Ball State University.
As he tried to [...]

Zion National Park is in Utah’s southwest corner, the part of the state that Utah residents call Dixie, where spring arrives first.
The grass was still brown when we left our home in Montana early last April and headed south on Interstate 15. But as we descended the last stretch toward Zion, dropping from mountains into [...]

Congressman Jack Murtha is one of the most influential powerbrokers in Washington.
According to an estimate by Taxpayers for Common Sense, he’s steered more than $600 million in earmarks to his Pennsylvania district in the past four years and $2 billion since 1992. But what’s been good for Murtha and his district is not always good [...]

WASHINGTON – Employers buffeted by talk of recession slashed 80,000 jobs in March, the most in five years and the third straight month of losses.
At the same time, the national unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent to 5.1 percent, the clearest signal yet that the economy might already be shrinking.
The new snapshot of the job [...]

WASHINGTON – Don’t blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country’s five biggest oil companies said Tuesday they know record fuel prices are hurting people, but they argued it’s not their fault and their huge profits are in line with other industries.
Appearing before a House committee, the executives [...]