April 23, 2013  |   Terrorism has been in the headlines in Boston before. Ten al-Qaida hijackers departed from Boston's Logan airport on Sept. 11, 2001. And in 2012, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., a Boston suburb, was convicted of conspiracy to provide material...

April 18, 2013  |   Update: the FBI has released this image of suspect 2, who is believed to still be at large in the Boston area. The AP has identified this suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge....

December 31, 2012  |   The aftermath of hurricane Sandy in Rockaway Beach, N.Y. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Monday Michael Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith look back on 2012 and discuss which moments will be the most likely to be remembered. Will the first...

December 14, 2012  |   Today's shootings in Connecticut have given rise to many discussions online about violence, guns and school safety. President Obama did not discuss gun control during his statement today, but he did promise "meaningful action." NBC's David Gregory posed this question...

November 6, 2012  |   If you went to the polls today, you probably spotted a few voters snapping photos on their cell phones. We wanted to get a voters-eye view of the voting experience, so we created an experimental website. LookIVoted.com scoops up...

August 5, 2012  |   After a 354 million-mile journey, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its rover Curiosity succeeded in a risky, sophisticated landing on the surface of Mars, and began beaming back photos of its own shadow against the soil of its landing...

August 1, 2011  |   EMBED THIS: » View All High Temperature Records On July 22, thermometers in Newark, N.J., peaked at a staggering 108 degrees, the highest temperature ever recorded in that region. Days later on July 27, Joplin, Mo., broke a 60-year-old...

May 9, 2011  |   The Drudge Report outranks social media when it comes to driving news traffic to top Web sites, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a comprehensive examination of online traffic data...

March 14, 2011  |   Google Earth has published updated satellite images that show earthquake and tsunami damage in Japan. Explore these images and view related video and photos. Several of these images require the Google Earth plugin for your Web browser. View all of...

March 11, 2011  |   Aftershocks continue to rock cities across Japan after an 8.9-magnitude struck off the country's east coast. To see a live view of seismic activity in the region we created a Google Earth map, overlaid with United States Geological Service...

February 28, 2011  |   In an article released this weekend, Associated Press reporter Mike Stobbe details new revelations about medical experiments conducted decades ago by the U.S. government. Most of the experiments are 40 to 80 years old, and included giving hepatitis to mental...

November 5, 2010  |   Using Google Earth and tropical storm-tracking data from NASA, we created this interactive map of Hurricane Tomas. Be sure to click on the local webcams to see images of of the Caribbean skies, and any other icon on the...

October 12, 2010  |   NASA's Earth Observatory has released this image of the toxic spill in Hungary. The image was taken on Oct. 9. The alumina plant appears along the right edge of both images, and incorporates both bright blue and brick red reservoirs....

September 30, 2010  |   Photos of Kim Jong Un, the probable heir to Kim Jong Il's leadership of North Korea, have been few and far between. Until Thursday, the only verified image that showed his face was taken when he was 11 years old....

September 17, 2010  |   Jeffrey Goldberg's recent interview with Fidel Castro may have raised questions about Castro's commitment to the Cuban model of socialism, but the Cuban leader was absolutely clear on one thing: he enjoys a good dolphin show: We went together into...

September 10, 2010  |   "For an instant, each tower left its imprint in the air, a phantom of pulverized concrete marking a place that then became a memory." --William Langewiesche, "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center" To mark the ninth anniversary the...

September 8, 2010  |   GOP pollster Glen Bolger told The Hill newspaper Tuesday, "It's a wave year The question is, 'How high is the wave?'" For some context, here are the polling numbers that Political Editor David Chalian discussed with Jim...

September 1, 2010  |   By analyzing a database of 500,000 text messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have created an hour-by-hour psychological profile of texting Americans on that day. The pager text messages, which were posted...

August 20, 2010  |   A Thai appeals court ruled Friday to extradite Russian businessman Victor Bout, one of the world's most prolific arms dealers, to the U.S. to stand trial. Bout, 43, has been in the custody of the Thai government since 2008,...

August 17, 2010  |   In an effort to rid the country of unsafe, illegal and aging structures, the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development plans to demolish more than half of the country's residential buildings in the next 20 years. Illegal structures...

August 3, 2010  |   In an effort to better understand the magnitude of the gulf oil disaster, we've taken the newly published spill total and compared it against several real-world numbers. We'll be adding to this list throughout the day. If you have a...

July 30, 2010  |   The demand for emission-free nuclear electricity in China is growing as quickly as its megacities and middle-class. Some analysts estimate that China will need to build as many as 300 new nuclear power plants by 2050 -- a nuclear building...

July 28, 2010  |   So far this year, nearly 1,000 people have been killed by flooding in the central Chinese province of Hubei. Eight million have been evacuated from their homes to avoid rising floodwaters as the Yangtze and Hanjiang rivers reach record levels....

July 27, 2010  |   Earlier Tuesday, a barge collided with an abandoned oil well in Barataria Bay, La., just north of an area already hit by oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak. The 20-foot gusher of oil and natural gas is reportedly hampering efforts...

July 16, 2010  |   In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a little...

June 24, 2010  |   Please note, the first release of the PBS NewsHour iPhone app has a bug that inhibits it from running on iPhones and iPod Touches running IOS 3.13. We will release an update to the app that resolves this issue shortly....

May 21, 2010  |   Early Friday morning, BP published these two video streams this video stream online of the Gulf oil leak. This video requires Windows Media Player and works best in Firefox or Internet Explorer. The stream is now hosted courtesy of Ustream.tv....