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WASHINGTON – The State Department is advising Americans planning to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing to take care and be mindful that they could be under surveillance. “All hotel rooms and offices are considered to be subject to on-site or remote technical monitoring at all times,” the department’s Bureau …

NEW YORK – About a quarter of the nation’s TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television despite two years of warnings about the transition. Though most viewers were ready — and people with cable or …

MALVERN, Pa. – Researchers may have discovered a mass grave for nearly five dozen 19th century Irish immigrants who died of cholera weeks after coming to Pennsylvania to build a railroad. Historians at Immaculata University have known for years about the 57 immigrants who died in August 1832, but could …