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"Spam" may be one of the dirtiest words in the computer dictionary. The word makes reference to unsolicited and usually unwanted e-mail. But now a shadowy group is using some severe tactics to rid the computer world of Spam -- and with some effectiveness. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

Scientists make it possible for quadriplegics to control a television, play simple computer games and check e-mail... by just thinking about it. Commentator David Ewing Duncan contemplates the age of the neuro-cyborg.

Chicago is considered to be a Democratic city, yet The Chicago Tribune is endorsing President Bush. The paper received thousands of letters and e-mails in response. From the Tribune we speak with editorial page editor Bruce Dold, and letters editor Dodie Hofstetter.

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.

Your first job can be a critical moment that sets you on a good financial path or a bad one. One group is trying to make sure low-income young adults get off to the right start.

Marion Mayor D’Anna Browning announced Monday – a little more than 18 months after the breach – on social media a plan to restabilize the earthen dam levee at Lake George.

For World Kindness Day, six newborn babies at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh were dressed up as the late Fred Rogers.

Six escapees are still on the run after 10 inmates broke out of their holding cells at New Orleans' largest jail last week. Authorities are now looking at whether they had help from inside.

A group with ties to the Russian government has been linked to a hacking attempt. The White House is expected to reverse the Clean Power Plan. Many inmates in U.S. prisons plan to protest conditions.

The administration awarded a contract for a COVID-19 database to TeleTracking Technologies using a process reserved for innovative research. Its CEO had links to the New York real estate world.