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Better-targeted policies like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) deserve the support of politicians and public figures who want to do something about poverty. It's been empirically proven to boost employment and incomes...

With a new Star Wars film expected to be released starting in 2015 and beyond, we're sure you're going to want to buy yourself a lightsaber, that is, if you already don't own one already. You could head down to your loca...

Philips and their Ambilight technology certainly ushered in something different for the mass market a few years back, and it is not something that you would be able to find on other non-Philips devices around the home. W...

A 1913 Liberty Head nickel was hidden in a Virginia closet for 41 years after its owners were mistakenly told it was a fake. It was thought to be worth up to $2.5 million. It sold for $3.17 million. The nickel is one of ...

When the bombings went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Heather Abbott was right there on Boylston Street, in the middle of a fun, annual day trip of watching the Red Sox and hanging out with friends. Abbot...

This summer, Americans fell in love with 12-year-old Nathan Sorrell, the chubby jogger who starred in Nike's "Find your greatness" Olympics commercial. The ad was powerful in its simplicity, only showing uncut footage of...

Parse, a cloud services company that provides developers tools to use a unified back-end for their apps, announced that Facebook acquired it today. Facebook confirmed the purchase on its own blog. TechCrunch has informat...

Hillary Clinton is the very early favorite in New Hampshire's 2016 Democratic presidential primary, two polls released this week find. If that state, which traditionally holds the nation's first primary, went to the ball...

Miley Cyrus has successfully made the transition from Disney child star to... tabloid catnip. In addition to her ever-elusive relationship status, the 20-year-old seems to make eye-catching headlines for her decidedly ba...

Part of a landing gear, apparently from one of the two planes to crash into the twin towers more than 11 years ago, was discovered Wednesday, the police said.

Investigators in white hazmat suits are searching a landfill for a laptop tied to the accused Boston Marathon bombers, one of a potential lead that emerged as a result of interviews with men from Kazakhstan who knew the ...

The advent of big data is affecting Ford Motor Co. in some significant ways, from how it analyzes its supply chain to the features it puts into its cars.

By Douglas MainLiveScienceWhat's cooler than being cool? Brine-cold.When salt-rich water leaks out of sea ice, it sinks into the sea and can occasionally create an eerie finger of ice called a brinicle. New research expl...

"Wow! I totally just watched the awesome cell phone video you shot at that concert!"

Today, 38-year-old Chelsea Handler is the host of late-night talk show "Chelsea Lately," a New York Times best-selling author, stand-up comedian, movie actress and TV producer. Here she is looking better than ever at las...

After a six-year effort, Washington state has joined California, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Utah in passing gender-neutral constitutional mandates--i.e., any official documents must be gender-b...

Smartphones have finally outpaced feature phones (dumbphones) in unit of worldwide sales this past quarter, so says a new report by the International Data Corp. Smartphone vendors shipped 216.2 million units in the first...

President Obama today said the U.S. was conducting a "very vigorous investigation" into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and reiterated that the use of such agents would be a "game changer." "We cannot stand by and p...

The Earth's inner core is hotter than experts previously suspected -- by a whopping 1,000 degrees. In fact, new research suggests, the center of our planet might be around the same temperature as the sun. In a study publ...

White House says Syria used sarin gas; Third juror excused in Arias trial; Openly gay football player seeks NFL contract.

Tickets for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in June sold out in record time today. It's time to rethink how the company reaches its developers.

The smartphone has finally surpassed the traditional feature phone, also known as the dumb phone, in sales worldwide. Samsung Electronics is leading the pack.