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Matt Drudge, the conservative creator and editor of The Drudge Report, tweeted Wednesday night that Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's nomination as CIA Director constituted an "energy shift" for the ent...

This week, Letter From London comes to you from Paris, which is of course umbilically connected to London by the Eurostar so we have decided that makes it ok for this column.

In the final 14 questions submitted by jurors to accused murderer Jodi Arias today, the jury indicated they are not fully convinced that Arias killed her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in self-defense.

This sounds like an Onion story, but it actually happened: A twenty-something couple decided to go on a bike trip through South America; when they stopped updating their Facebook pages, their loved ones assumed they'd be...

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Big dogs apparently die younger mainly because they age more quickly, researchers say. These new findings could help unravel the biological links between growth and mortality, the scientists added.

NASA's Curiosity rover hunkered down Wednesday after the sun unleashed a blast that raced toward Mars.

A canine skull found in the Altai Mountains of Siberia is more closely related to modern domestic dogs than to wolves, a new DNA analysis reveals. The findings could indicate that dogs were domesticated around 33,000 yea...

Groups representing Federal Air Marshals and flight attendants -- outraged over the Transportation Security Administration's decision to allow small pocketknives back into aircraft cabins -- say they will ask the TSA to ...

After more than three decades of economic prosperity, China faces serious environmental challenges, including its increasingly filthy waterways

Country's attorney general had sought to have the agency excluded from the MegaUpload founder's lawsuit. [Read more]

Facebook released more details about the technical underpinnings of its Graph Search function. The company's engineers still appear to have plenty more work ahead to improve Graph Search, though.

Facebook plans to announce a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed both at keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars.

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The smartphone has killed a lot of gadgets, but it won't kill all specialized gadgets. In this talk from our internet of things meetup Dave Merrill of Sifteo explains how devices will evolve.

Time Inc. has been struggling in recent months, and now parent company Time Warner has announced it is spinning off the division entirely. In a statement today, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said that the decision had been...

No NBA team is going to look particularly good while being outscored 20-0 over the final 6:22 of a game, but the Lakers made the...

Real Madrid has won its last five matches and is unbeaten in its last seven in large part because of the play of world-class forward Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo has not only led by example with his production on the pitch...

Shares in the Web radio service company climb too, on both the earnings news and reports that Apple's would-be competing service will face delays. [Read more]

Shares in the Web radio service company climb on both the earnings news and reports that Apple's would-be competing service will face delays. [Read more]

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Redskins are facing another name challenge. NBC's ProFootballTalk blog has the details on the team's new trademark dispute: On Thursday a...