Scientists from Germany have identified a shared genetic link between the dental disease periodontitis and heart disease. “Our study demonstrates that coronary heart disease and periodontitis are genetically related,” Dr. Arne Schaefer, of the Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Kiel, Germany, and colleagues reported to the European Society …

Surveillance video footage has captured the ghost of a small child darting across a busy shopping center in Chile. The shadowy spirit glides in between oblivious shoppers in the eerily clear video. The floating phantom, about two feet in height, appears in the bottom right of the screen after a …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from June 12, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the …

KIEL, Wis. – The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember the soldier who once said she alone could take …

They are crossing the border illegally and violently displacing the indigenous population whose homes and possessions they either destroy or occupy. They are attacking the young, the elderly, and especially the girls and women, whom they kidnap, forcibly convert, or traffic into brothels. The locals are terrified of them. The …

I own a piece of the Wall. One of my most prized possessions is the undistinguished chunk of concrete that a journalist friend brought back for me after watching East and West German students and citizens pulverize, stone by stone, the century’s most enduring symbol of tyranny. The piece of …

President Obama’s plans to accelerate the development of an electrical “smart grid” could leave the nation’s power supply dangerously vulnerable to attacks by computer hackers, security analysts are warning. The “smart grid” is projected to be a nationwide system of automated meters and advanced sensors that integrates new alternative-energy sources …

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday that the country deserved what it gets if Donald Trump is elected in 2024 because, “it meant that we were not loud enough.” The co-hosts discussed the former president, who Goldberg commonly refers to as “you know who,” and co-host Sunny Hostin argued …

A suspect has been arrested in Washington, D.C., after allegedly spraying an unknown substance at two people while making antisemitic remarks in the vicinity of a synagogue, police say. Brent Wood, a 33-year-old with a last known address in Toledo, Ohio, is now facing charges of simple assault and resisting …

A federal judge in New York has ordered the unsealing of dozens of documents naming people linked to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. The documents are expected to identify more than 180 people, including associates, victims, investigators and journalists who covered the case. Some of the names …