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Give this man some tomato dipping sauce, stat. The title character in Teddy Wayne's critically acclaimed new novel, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, is an 11-year-old Bieber-esque pop star who subsists on little more th...

The NBA won't vote on the sale of the Sacramento Kings to a group from Seattle until the Board of Governors convene in mid-April. But so far, all signs point to the Kings being sold and moving to Seattle to become the se...

Semen! With the possible exception of Bud Light, no fluid is as responsible for the propagation of the human species. Some of us think it's funny, some of us are grossed out by it and the lucky few of us cannot get enoug...

The North Dakota legislature approved the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States on Friday, cutting off abortion access as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The bill, HB 1456, makes it illegal for doct...

Facebook has named vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer as its new chief technology officer.

WASHINGTON/CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Senator Rob Portman became the most prominent Republican lawmaker to back gay rights when he reversed his opposition to same-sex marriage on Friday, two years after his son told him he wa...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — There's nothing like Derby Pie — and Kern's Kitchen is willing to fight in court to prove that. The Louisville-based company which makes the chocolate-nut pie has sued Claudia Sanders...

It's testament to Cliff Paul's character that he hasn't managed to get a big head about all the attention he's received recently -- you know, despite thousands of fans literally waving around super-sized cutouts of his h...

MIAMI — Officials say up to four people were injured when large lighting equipment being set up for the Ultra Music Festival collapsed in downtown Miami. Fire rescue workers responded to Bayfront Park Thursday eve...

Younger generations used to be successively wealthier, but no more. “For many, the American dream of working hard, saving more, and becoming wealthier than one’s parents holds true. Unless you’re unde...

The National Nuclear Security Administration and Temple University recently announced that they had secured a device containing cesium 137 that could be used to build a radiological dirty bomb.

LED screen comes down at Ultra Music Festival site in Miami on eve of opening; at least 2 hurt

With Facebook's appointment of Mike Schroepfer as its new chief technology officer, the company is putting in place a person who has overseen an infrastructure strategy that has made an industry take notice.

What happens to late Venezuelan president's body still unclear as it may be too late to embalm him.

An Illinois man was charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama after putting his message on a contact-the-White-House online form. Normally, the man's comments, including — "I am going to kill Obama a...

Facebook often ranks at or near the top of any "best companies to work for" list.  Although founder Mark Zuckerberg is often described as awkward, employees love working for him. There's a learning curve, but once peo...

Actor discusses working with Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey on "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone."

Ricky Gervais, creator of British hit "The Office," is bringing David Brent back to life on his new YouTube channel.

After a man was swallowed by a sinkhole in Tampa, Fla., there seemed to be new ones opening up all over the place, but experts say that’s just what sinkholes do.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A white tip shark shipped from New York and placed into an outdoor pool for a Kmart commercial in Los Angeles died after showing signs of distress, an official from the animal welfare group that m...

Boeing Co said its proposed fix for problems relating to the lithium-ion batteries on its 787 Dreamliner would eliminate the risk of fire, as the company seeks to reassure regulators and the public about the jet's safety...

ESPN is suspending Bill Simmons, the marquee columnist and editor of the network's Grantland site, from using Twitter. The suspension follows Simmons' critical tweets of ESPN's show "First Take" over a recent heated argu...