The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the maker of Lunesta must lower the starting dose of the sleeping aid drug because of the risk of morning drowsiness, which can interfere with driving ability and lead to injury.

Hazardous fire retardants have been found inside the U.S. child care centers, which implies children in those premises could be exposed to the chemical substances, a new study has showed.

The U.S. Postal Service has released its rankings of the cities with the most dog attacks in 2013. Across America, 5,581 postal employees were attacked throughout the year. A total of about 4.5 million Americans are bitten by dogs annually, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of those are children.

A flight on its way to Tulsa has been delayed due to an emergency landing in Dallas. American Airlines Flight 2287 was on its way to Tulsa from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Thursday when it declared an emergency and returned to DFW. Officials say the emergency was due to flames in the right engine of the Boeing 757. The flight …

This year’s Lollapalooza festival takes place August 1-3 at Chicago’s Grant Park, with headliners OutKast, Arctic Monkeys, Eminem, Skrillex, Kings of Leon, and Calvin Harris. If you’re going, you’ve still got a few months to map out your itinerary. Today the fest has announced its full schedule. As usual, there are a few big names that overlap.

A family posted a video on YouTube Wednesday morning of the family cat saving a boy from a dog attack. The 56-second video from surveillance cameras shows the boy riding his bike Tuesday when the dog attacks him. The cat immediately charges out and scares off the much-larger dog.

The mystery of how octopuses manage not to get tangled up in their own tentacles has finally been solved. Published in the journal Current Biology, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem noted it has long been known that octopuses do not know where their arms are exactly – so how then, they asked, do they not end up tying …

Physical activity is beneficial for those living with heart disease. But too much intense exercise may up your risk of death from a heart attack or stroke, finds a new study appearing in BMJ-British Medical Journal.

At least seven bodies have been recovered after a ferry carrying hundreds of passengers sank Thursday in the middle of a river in a storm in Bangladesh.

There’s a breakfast cereal out there that’s 88 percent sugar: Lieber’s Cocoa Frosted Flakes. Basically, it’s a bowl of sugar, with some cocoa for flavor and grain for crunch. Plus a little sugar on top. It’s gluten-free — probably because the makers wanted to make more room for sugar. That’s an extreme example, but not as extreme as you might …

Wildfires continued to rage in southern California on Thursday, fuelled by high temperatures and brisk winds fanning the flames.