No single person in the colorful history of radio can be credited with inventing radio. Radio's "inventors" almost all refined an idea put forth by someone else. Wireless communication became a theoretical proposition in 1864 when...

AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using Amplitude...

Fred Thompson is relying on his radio roots for a rally in South Carolina's GOP presidential primary.Thompson has sat behind microphones in a series of town-hall meetings as talk radio hosts question him for a few minutes before opening it up to audiences. On Wednesday,...

Adoption of HD Radio, the digital upgrade to today's analog AM-FM broadcasts, could get a big lift from Best Buy's decision to stock HD Radio receivers in all of its stores nationwide. Best Buy BBY, the No. 1 consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., announced...

With Hamas forces threatening his life, 49-year-old Abdel Salam Abu Nada took a harrowing journey to safety, dodging Hamas checkpoints, braving Israeli tank fire and crawling the final 300 yards to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel.Today, he is among dozens of Fatah leaders holed...

Mahmoud Abbas got a major boost in his increasingly bellicose showdown with Hamas on Saturday, with a U.S. diplomat saying he expects a crippling embargo to be lifted once the Palestinian president appoints a government without the Islamic militants.But the money is unlikely to reach...