Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English—see Terminology) is the practice of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon [...]

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $15 billion measure intended to spur job creation by granting payroll tax breaks to businesses that hire new workers, hoping to show voters that Congress was doing something about the dismal employment picture. The vote was 217 to 201.
Democratic backers of the plan wanted to [...]

PITTSBURGH – With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill — and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.
“Help is on the way,” [...]

SANTIAGO, Chile – A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, killing at least 78 people, collapsing buildings and setting off a tsunami.
A huge wave reached a populated area in the Robinson Crusoe Islands, 410 miles (660 kilometers) off the Chilean coast, said President Michele Bachelet.
Tsunami warnings were issued over a wide area, including South [...]

A recent NASA study has determined the top 10 plants for reducing indoor air pollution.
By Greg Seaman
Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside homes, [...]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s office says he had a “mild heart attack” this week — his fifth — but is in stable condition and will be released from the hospital in a couple of days.
“Former Vice President Cheney was admitted to GW Hospital after experiencing chest pain,” his office said in a statement. [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – When Apolo Anton Ohno imagined his surge into Winter Olympic history, it didn’t look much like this.
Ohno still carried the dream of greatness and immortality that was spawned as a cocky youngster until recently, even when it became an apparently inevitable reality. He sometimes allowed his mind’s eye to paint a [...]

Worried about a tax audit? Maybe you should be. More Americans than ever may be subject to unwanted attention from the Internal Revenue Service this season as the government pumps billions of dollars into tax collection.
More than 1.4 million Americans were audited last year, the most in a decade. Even more audits are expected as [...]