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House To Vote On Bill Repealing Affordable Care Act

The U.S. House will vote Wednesday on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Senate has already passed it, but President Obama has vowed to veto it.

A woman fills her car with gas in Woodbridge, Va., on Tuesday. Supplies of crude oil and refined gasoline have driven prices at the pump down, and they're expected to go even lower.

If You Like Cheap Gasoline, January May Be Your Lucky Month

Prices already are averaging less than $2 a gallon nationwide, and a new report shows gasoline inventories are surging. Experts say that sets the stage for more price drops in coming days.

An investor rests in front of a dark electronic board at a Beijing brokerage house after China suspended trading Thursday for the second time this week.

U.S. Markets Slump After Chinese Stocks Plunge; China Suspends 'Circuit Breaker'

With U.S. stock prices already seeing their worst three-day opening for a year since 2008, China's trading day lasted less than 30 minutes Thursday.

125-Year-Old Beer Has Odd, Meaty Flavor, Expert Says

The bottle of beer had languished at the bottom of Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia. A treasure hunter brought the pale ale to Andrew MacIntosh who specializes in fermentation research.

Nebraska Medical Center one of 60 hospitals in a heart pump clinical trial

Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center is one of 60 hospitals nationwide taking part in a clinical trial for a new heart pump device.The device is…

A macaque took this self-portrait in 2011 with a camera owned by photographer David Slater. PETA says the monkey owns the copyright; Slater says he does. The U.S. Copyright Office says no one can, and a federal judge has now said it would be up to Congress to extend copyright privileges to animals.

Monkey Can't Own Copyright To His Selfie, Federal Judge Says

A district judge in San Francisco said that Congress and the president can choose to "extend the protection of law to animals as well as humans" — but that for now, no, monkeys can't own copyrights.

Crews work on a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles in early December. A leak has allowed tons of methane to escape into the surrounding neighborhood; stopping it is taking months because of pressure from the leak.

California Declares State Of Emergency Over Months-Long Gas Leak

Since October, a natural gas storage well near Los Angeles has been spewing hundreds of tons of methane gas each day. The leak isn't expected to be fixed for months.

Security officers and other people walk next to damaged cars at the site where a truck bomb exploded at a security training camp on Thursday in the northwestern coastal city of Zliten, Libya.

Truck Bomb At Libyan Security Training Camp Kills Dozens

It's one of the deadliest attacks in Libya since the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Oregon Ranchers Historically Divided Over Management Of Public Lands

The occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in southeast Oregon has brought heightened attention to the federal government's management of public lands. The ranchers of Harney County, Ore., have a long history of both working with and struggling with the Bureau of Land Management. Some ranchers blame the area's economic hardship on federal mismanagement of public lands, but others see the government agency as a valuable partner.

Puddle Cam Goes Viral In Britain

A puddle was blocking a walking path in Newcastle, England. It became popular after Richard Rippon decided to live stream it. He tells the BBC he was fascinated by the way people were navigating it.

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