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Byline: Leigh Montgomery Invasive species are ones that don't naturally occur in an area and may have detrimental effects. Here are some eradication success stories. Sources: Global Invasive Species Database, [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery It's not often that the US Supreme Court stays an execution, as it did late Thursday in the case of convicted murderer Duane Buck. But the justices [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery East Asia is home to several territorial disputes, which occasionally escalate into regional violence. Many of the island territories are small, isolated from the countries' mainlands, and [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery, Geoff Johnson For those who don't work in the nuclear energy field, some of the terms being thrown around in news coverage of the events unfolding at [...]

Byline: Geoff Johnson, Leigh Montgomery There is a long history of innovation in America's relatively short existence; from lone inventors experimenting in garages to collaborating and competing with international scientists. [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery, Geoff Johnson New York City lawmakers voted Feb. 2 to ban smoking outdoors in public parks, public beaches, and even Times Square. The Big Apple is the [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery, Geoff Johnson Senate leaders decided to scrap a 1,900-page omnibus spending bill that contained $8 billion in home state spending projects - otherwise known as earmarks, pet [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery The 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup hosting rights will be decided today in Zurich, Switzerland. Here's the short list for the 2018 World Cup [...]

Byline: Geoff Johnson and Leigh Montgomery The 2010 elections were tough on all Democrats, but particularly on female lawmakers. The upcoming 112th Congress may see fewer women in office on [...]

Byline: Andrew Heining, Geoff Johnson, Leigh Montgomery Televised presidential press conferences and official signings are commonplace on TV, but less-formal appearances are rare for the commander-in-chief. Monday's announcement that President [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery, Geoff Johnson Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his long and nonviolent struggle for human rights in his country. Here [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery The First Amendment guarantees of free speech, press, religion, and assembly may be the constitutional provision most widely understood by Americans. Adopted in 1791 as part of [...]

Byline: Geoff Johnson and Leigh Montgomery Nine states plus the District of Colombia now ban the use of a cellphone by adults while driving. But in some states, police must [...]

Byline: Andrew Heining and Leigh Montgomery The Red Sox may be struggling to make the playoffs this season, but Boston is a perennial box-office favorite. The latest Boston-based film to [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater - who quit and made a dramatic exit down an aircraft emergency slide on Aug. 9 - is the latest symbol of [...]

Byline: Stacie Williams and Leigh Montgomery Online privacy has become a key civil liberty battleground. Companies such as Facebook and Google are amassing data about users' choices and activities, which [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery and Stacie Williams Among today's American 25- to 34-year olds, slightly more than 40 percent have associate's degrees or higher. But that rate places the US only [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery and Elizabeth Ryan The following 18 languages were last known to have one remaining speaker. They are the most at-risk languages on a list of 199 classified [...]

Byline: Leigh Montgomery President Obama on Tuesday selected Howard Schmidt to serve as the White House cybersecurity coordinator, or "cyber czar." An expert and pioneer in computer forensics, Mr. Schmidt […]

Byline: Compiled by Leigh Montgomery and Elizabeth Ryan 1993-94: Trial in first World Trade Center bombing. On Feb. 26, 1993, an explosive-packed Ryder truck was driven into the garage of [...]

Byline: Monitor staff and Compiled by Leigh Montgomery & Elizabeth Ryan | The three terrorism plots uncovered in the past week join a long list of thwarted attacks on US [...]

Byline: Compiled by Leigh Montgomery and Stephanie Frueh November 1908: The Christian Science Monitor is founded as a daily newspaper in Boston, Mass., by Mary Baker Eddy. Its first editor [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for 16 hours over two sessions without telling him he had the right to remain silent and to not implicate himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mitt Romney is running for president on his business acumen, saying he knows what it takes to create jobs. He puts less emphasis on what he knows about eliminating jobs. Marion, Ind., has experienced both via Romney and Bain Capital. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ronald Reagan was America's only divorced president. And several men who occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – Bill Clinton perhaps most notably in contemporary times – were unfaithful to their spouses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Veterans Day (US) and Remembrance Day (British Commonwealth) are observed on Nov. 11, the day in 1918 that an armistice ended hostilities in The Great War. Some 41 million Americans have served in the US military since 1775; 23 million of them are still alive, of whom 17 million served during a conflict.Source: 2010 American Community Survey, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AmeriCares 88 Hamilton Avenue Stamford, CT 06902 tel: (800) 486-4357 website: http://www.americares.org Donate directly here What's being done: working with clinics, shelters and healthcare providers in Joplin and Springfield, Mo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News reports suggest that some GM dealers might sell the all-electric Chevrolet Volt for $20,000 over the $41,000 suggested retail price. If you want to be green – but don't have THAT much green – here are five hybrids that will be a bit easier on the wallet, according to HybridCars.com. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]