Many reports of near-death experiences sound the same: a welcoming white light and a replay of memories. But now scientists aim to study what really happens to the brain and consciousness when someone is on the verge of dying.
It's suspected, but not known for sure yet, that that the engineer of a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train may have been text messaging when the train ran a stop signal, crashing into an oncoming freight engine.
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Former President Bill Clinton, setting aside his own criticism and ambivalence, gave a full-throated endorsement Wednesday of Barack Obama as a leader ready to confront any challenge.
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Joe Lieberman is at center stage in the Senate this week, helping lead the charge for a landmark greenhouse gas limits bill which he helped to write. At the same time Lieberman is in a political no-man's land, neither entirely out of the Democratic Party, nor exactly in it ei …
Five conservation groups have asked a federal court to stop the artificial feeding of elk on Wyoming's National Elk Refuge.
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