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On This Day back in 2007 something very special happened in South African rugby.

PHOENIX — Heath Bell became the latest player jettisoned by the Miami Marlins when he was dealt Saturday to the Arizona Diamondbacks, who also acquired...

The reporting on what we know about the Benghazi attacks on September 11 just gets more and more interesting. Let's do a quick Q&A: Why was President Obama initially unwilling to call it an act of terror? He wasn't. The ...

One Canadian leader looks for allies to develop our resources responsibly, while another looks for enemies where there are none. A trip to Iran has Canadian media and politicians up in arms.

New state employment figures help explain the shape of the race in two Midwestern battlegrounds now at the heart of the presidential contest: Ohio, where Mitt Romney has gained some ground, and Wisconsin, where President...

The poor reception for Apple's new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications, but it didn't actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them -- except for one. Israel's Waze boosted its marke...

Of the six studies that Gov. Romney cites to defend his mathematically-challenged tax plan, a few were blogs and were thus often dismissed by critics as being de facto inadequate evidence simply by dint of being blog pos...

You ever been to a hot-sauce specialty shop? These are dimly lit little retail closets, typically in beachside vacation towns and the like, where you stare at shelves upon shelves of little hot-sauce bottles and have a c...

A review of the new film, "Gilad and All That Jazz".

Romney ended September with slightly more than $63 million in his campaign account; Obama had nearly $100 million.

Not a word has been said in the presidential debates about what may be the most urgent and consequential issue in the world: climate change. President Obama understands and accepts the scientific consensus that the burni...

Well this is the feel-good story of the day. The boxer Orlando Cruz announced two weeks ago that he is gay, likely becoming the first boxer to do so during his career. And on Friday, Cruz, the WBO's fourth-ranked feather...

Welcome to “Pretty Much Screwed,” our 2012-13 guide to the upcoming NBA season, in which we identify the reasons why your favorite team might have to start looking forward to 2013-2014 -- and highlight at lea...

NEW YORK -- Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has had surgery to repair a broken left ankle. Dr. Robert Anderson operated Saturday in Charlotte, N.C. The...

Lee Corso's College GameDay schtick has for decades been his end-of-show prognostication of the day's feature game—usually involving his favored team's mascot. (Today he picked the hometown Gators to beat South Ca...

KENT, Wash. (AP) - Ashley Wagner delivered a clean performance in the short program to grab the lead at Skate America on Saturday.

The Diamondbacks, Athletics and Marlins have pulled off a three-way trade which will send Heath Bell to Arizona and Chris Young to Oakland.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has had an operation on his broken left ankle and is expected to be sidelined for at least four months, the Major League Baseball team said on Saturday.

The authenticity of a business-card-sized papyrus that appears to reveal Jesus had a wife is in dispute.

The latest intelligence assessment of the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi indicates there was little if any pre-planning for it and that it was in part an opportunistic response to the protests at the U...

A Fargo, N.D., radio caller seems to be a little confused about deer crossings. And, you know, whether deer can read highway signs. The woman identified only as Donna told radio station Y94 The Morning Playhouse she h...

At least 23 people killed and several buildings destroyed after suspected Boko Haram fighters mount attack in Potiskum.