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Firearm accessories supplier Brownells says that it's experiencing "unprecedented" sales of magazines. Brownells has sold 3 1/2 years worth of PMAG magazines in just 72 hours, according to a statement posted from the ...

These feel like the best of times for Stoke City. With shrewd development and decision-making off the field, the club is growing as a Premier League force and results on the field have not been bad, either. This Jon Walt...

Whether MMA fans are naughty or nice, UFC President Dana White isn't in the spirit of handing out lumps of coal. The expectations are through the ceiling for 2013, and while White has the final say in every UFC decision,...

About one in three children in the U.S. are now overweight, and since the 1980s the number of children who are obese has more than tripled. But a new study of 26.7 million young children from low-income families sh...

A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities. The bold move has escalated into a transparency arms ra...

For more than a century, intelligence quotient has been used to measure how smart people are, notes Nick Collins, science correspondent for the London Telegraph. He continues: “But now the scale has been dismiss...

The Houston Rockets are hot and the Minnesota Timberwolves—for lack of better words—are not. Despite the 6-4 records that both teams hold over the last 10 games, the James Harden-led Rockets are undoubtedly...

In 1989, a brand new Chevrolet Corvette was stolen from a dealership in San Diego. Over two decades later, the thief came clean. He recently reported his crime to the police because storing the car simply got too expensi...

Pittsburgh Steelers wide out Mike Wallace did not practice on Wednesday, via Ed Bouchette. The Steelers receiver landed on the team's injury report with a banged up hip. While this is not a good sign for Sunday's game, h...

The U.S. Treasury Department will begin taking steps this week to delay hitting the government's $16.4 trillion borrowing limit.

The US Geological Survey will soon shut down Landsat 5, an observational satellite that has been running since 1984. Landsat 5 was designed for a three-year run, but it's now orbited the Earth over 150,000 times and tran...

The U.S. Treasury Department will begin taking steps to delay hitting the government's $16.4 trillion borrowing limit on Dec. 31. Click to Continue »

Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola wasn't just for patents. It wants to make a phone that can compete with the iPhone and Samsung's successful line of Galaxy phones. To make those phones, it chose Lior Ron to...

It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two St...

The NBA Finals rematch between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder was certainly worthy of its top billing on Christmas Day. LeBron James nearly tallied his second holiday triple-double in three seasons, Kevin D...

Netflix’s streaming service went down about midday Christmas Eve, depriving thousands of their Christmas (or anything-but-Christmas) video fix for about 20 hours. Our Christmas gift to you: our latest video-stream...

As usual, major college recruiters regularly streamed through DeMatha during the 2010 football season, eager for a look at coveted All-Met offensive lineman Cyrus Kouandjio, among others. Few visitors to the Hyattsville ...

Google Now may be one of Google's most underrated new products of 2012, but I think it will turn out to be Google's killer mobile product in the long run. It's the one tool that brings together virtually everything Googl...

There is no one to skewer today — no coach, player or team to fillet. Even the woeful Wizards feel like less of a target and more like the relative in recovery that you pray for but don’t yet allow back to ...

Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou wants his tech startup VMK to be for Africa what Apple is for the U.S. and Samsung is for Asia. That is, he wants the majority of people on the continent to use the African-designed s...

Adrian Peterson has 1 game left to chase down playoffs, 2,000-yard season

Kevin Durant is a chameleon. No, seriously, he is. As we've come to find out, the 6'9" Durant can score, rebound, pass, force turnovers, block shots and star in a movie (Thunderstruck) where he can't do any of those t...