BBC An earthquake in northern Italy has killed at least four people and caused serious damage to buildings in several towns, local officials say. The magnitude-six quake struck in the middle of the night, about 35km (22 miles) north of the city of B… more »

The Wall Street Journal / By YUKA HAYASHI   TOKYO—A year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan's northeast and set off the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter century, many Japanese will spend Sunday solemnly… more »

The largest underground thermonuclear tests conducted by the US were detonated in Amchitka at the western end of the Aleutian Islands and the largest of these was the 5 megaton codename Cannikin test which occurred on November 6, 1971. Cannikin had a… more »

Conservative RefocusBy Barry Secrest Well, the Messianic Duffer takes a week and a half off and all hell breaks loose back on the mainland. Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, you name it-- something either happened or was rumored to be happening somewh… more »

ABC News' Stephanie Z. Smith reports from Martha's Vineyard: President Obama will end his vacation tonight, one day earlier than originally planned, White House officials said. The president thought it would “be more prudent for him to be in Washin… more »