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SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Francine Russo I tried to stay in my big home -- but discovered a special joy in making a smaller new one Read More...

Doctors used an fMRI to communicate with man thought to be vegetative for 12 years.

Will Barnet, a printmaker and painter known for elegantly stylized portraits and classically composed visions of beautiful women and children, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101. Read More... More on Ob...

Hooking up in an American theme park is almost disappointingly easy if you are gay, and the reason for that is Grindr. That is this story's fuel, Grindr. You now have the gist of it: Push buttons and you get laid. We are...

There are no words for this, Sweden's capping goal in their 4-2 friendly win over England today. We could try and explain that it really didn't mean anything, because the outcome was already decided and the match had no ...

A 31-year-old woman admitted to a hospital in Galway, Ireland, late last month with severe back pain was revealed to be miscarrying, but doctors repeatedly refused to abort the fetus. More »

Waffle House CEO Rogers says sexual harassment charges are false, 'blackmail'

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado man was charged on Tuesday in federal court with threatening to kill U.S. President Barack Obama during an October campaign visit, and court documents showed that he told investigators that ...

At the heart of an investigation involving former Gen. David H. Petraeus is Jill Kelley, who functioned as a kind of social liaison between the military and civilian elite.

The list of reasons the Philadelphia Eagles should fire head coach Andy Reid has become so numerous that it would take officials from the State of Florida nearly three days to count them entirely.

Nate Silver—the baseball analyst/metapollster/scary match witch who has given us both the PECOTA player forecasting system and the indispensable FiveThirtyEight blog—is in the discussion below, awaiting you...

The UCLA Bruins were nearly upset at the new Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday night by a hungry UC Irvine team. The two schools needed overtime to settle the game, and it was missed free throws and a couple of crucial turnover...

PRINCETON, N.J. -- A leading historian of American leaders in war and espionage said the exploits of David Petraeus, John Allen and the Tampa, Fla., Centcom crew seem tame by the standards of the men who led the nation i...

Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade will be a game-time decision Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Clippers due to a sprained left foot.

-- Lindsey Vonn has been released from a hospital in Vail, Colo., on Wednesday, two days after being admitted for intestinal pain. Vonn's publicist...

It's one of the rough things about being a sports fan, that you have zero impact on the outcome of the event in which you're so invested. It's a big reason we're so prone to freaking out when watching: we're utterly help...

Put your name on it: Rex Ryan rips 'cowardly' Jets for anonymous criticisms of Tim Tebow

Ryan rejects the notion that his ideas lost. Indeed, he still claims he's promoting "popular ideas." And he says of the Republican ticket: "It was a well-run campaign. We made this campaign about big ideas and big issues...

A week after the 2012 elections, a look at some of the changes in the social- and digital-media landscape in the U.S. since 2008 [Read more]

The Japanese tech industry continues to feel the squeeze in the economy, with one of the most painful effects being more mass layoffs of workers. In the latest development, Panasonic Corp. says that it will reduce its wo...

ROCKAWAY PARK, New York (Reuters) - Noreen Ellis begged the American Red Cross for help a few days after Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast.

Small plane crashes into Jackson, Miss., neighborhood; 3 aboard killed, authorities say