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Four wild mushroom foragers who mistakenly ate toxic fungi they found near Washington, D.C., were treated with an experimental medicine that's been used in Europe for years.

The Republican presidential candidate said the action amounted to the assassination of an American citizen "without charges." "We should think very seriously about this," he said.

The president of the University of New Hampshire put the kibosh on a planned ban of energy drinks on campus after concluding those offered contained about the same amount of caffeine as other beverages, including coffee.

In the first few months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Anwar al-Awlaki was also downplaying reports of "hate speech" at American mosques. His words back then may offer clues to his later actions.

One forecasting group says the U.S. is on the verge of recession, while European economists are talking about what kind of recession Europe will endure.

Census data released this week may indicate more than just a change in numbers. Some demographers say the stigma of homosexuality is easing, emboldening more people to disclose their same-sex partnerships. As evidence, some of the biggest increases in gay couples occurred in unlikely places.

Bloomberg reports Google, Apple and Cisco have an army of 160 lobbyists fighting for a tax break that could cost the U.S. almost $80 billion. Now, they've hired another well-connected lobbyist to help.

A new analysis of 2010 census data by the Williams Institute shows how same-sex couples are distributed across the nation. Liberal enclaves are well-represented, of course. But so are some surprising pockets of the heartland and the South.

The U.S. sold bunker buster bombs to Israel in 2009, a recent report details. No U.S. officials have talked openly about why the bunker busters were provided to Israel but speculation falls most heavily on the Iranian nuclear program.

New observations from the spacecraft Mercury reveal the planet did not form the way scientists thought it had.