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Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's executive order that led to the internment of Japanese-Americans. We hear from two people who were interned when they were children.

Millennials admire startup founders and revere self-employment, new survey findings show, but they're worried about debt and wary of starting businesses in an unforgiving economic environment.

The court's decision regarding the estimated $1 billion settlement paves the way for the start of payouts to more than 20,000 former players over a degenerative brain disease.

Companies, especially those in the manufacturing sector, are hiring at a pace that is likely to bring down the unemployment rate at a gradual rate. The unemployment problem is far from over, but a factory outside Boston is feeling the benefits of increased orders.

Poultry is big business in Alabama — the state is the third-largest U.S. poultry producer. Last week's tornadoes devastated the industry, destroying poultry houses and killing millions of chickens. Many Alabama farmers are now fighting to get back on their feet — others aren't sure they'll get that far.

It's been a year since the adoptive mother of a 7-year-old Russian boy returned him to Moscow. The incident nearly ruined the adoption of Anastasia Tomlinson by a couple in Tennessee. Hers is one of roughly 1,000 Russian adoptions in 2010 by U.S. families, a more than 30 percent drop from 2009.

Rising gold prices are leading to a new gold rush, attracting companies to remote mountain and desert areas like Mesquite in California's Imperial Valley. There's no pick-axing or panning at one 19th-century mine here; the mining company has turned to more complex methods to extract whatever gold is left underground.

It'll take fancy footwork for John Boehner to pull off his two-step plan to cut spending. Not only will he need to convince most House Republicans, the plan will need a vote to raise the debt ceiling next year. Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard says his real competition comes from the president.

Residents living near the San Onofre nuclear power plant, which is near an active earthquake fault, have been watching the events in Japan and wondering if a similar disaster could happen there. Local activists recently persuaded the City Council to ask for updated safety plans.