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Oil prices are hovering around $99 a barrel. Oil has gone up sharply since last month, partly because of signs of improvement in the U.S. economy. The debt crisis in Europe is holding prices below the psychologically important $100 mark.

Scientists in Italy say they've got more evidence. If so, it challenges Einstein's theory of relativity.

Do children with high IQs grow up to be drug abusers? That was the startling headline on a new research study. But lack of parental supervision and untreated mental health problems are far more likely to be issues, and those are things that parents can fix.

Pushed up by an increase in housing permits, the barometer of economic growth rose 0.9 percent in October.

Facing the prospect of insolvency, Mayor Dave Bing is looking to save about $14 million with the cuts.

The marching band got in trouble after poking fun at their winless team last weekend.

Republicans said it's time for the federal government to follow the lead of 49 states. Democrats said the amendment would tie future lawmakers' hands. To move forward, the amendment needed a two-thirds majority — 290 votes. The vote was 261-165.

Occupy Big Food says it wants "to take our food back and out of the hands of just a few large corporations." A food politics expert says the group should focus on learning about the farm bill.

Climate change will bring more heat waves, more intense rainfall and more expensive natural disasters, says a group of more than 200 scientists convened by the United Nations.

The defense secretary, who warned Congress earlier this month of the dangers of budget cuts in his agency, once had to help implement cuts as director of the Office of Management and Budget.