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A drug dealer is keeping the memory of digital black market Silk Road alive with specially-printed ecstasy pills. "To pay our respect to DPR and to forever remember the legacy that was Silk Road we have made a small batc...

Authorities searched early Saturday for nine teens they say were abducted from a New Mexico ranch for troubled youth.

Top 5 iPhone 5S alternatives, Avegant's Virtual Retinal Display prototype, and get ready for Apple's October 22 iPad event!

Earlier this week, WikiLeaks released a letter founder Julian Assange sent Benedict Cumberbatch back in January. The actor is playing Assange in the upcoming DreamWorks' film "The Fifth Estate." In the lengthy letter, As...

Louisiana-based accounting firm Postlethwaite & Netterville has pledged a $50,000 donation over five years to the University of New Orleans department of accounting.

Yahoo has acquired Bread, a URL shortener whose links included interstitial ads designed by the person who shortened them. The service has shut down as of Friday in the wake of the deal. Bread (aka "Bre.ad") posted the n...

Wells Fargo once again posted record profits in the third quarter, the bank said Friday, despite the long-expected slow-down in its mortgage division.

This week, Amazon announced a new service called "Login and Pay" that directly compete with PayPal. For the 215 million Amazon users worldwide, there's no question that this capability will make it significantly easier t...

Lucas123 writes "Consumers appear more willing to use a self-driving car from a leading technology company, such as Google, over an auto manufacturer like Ford or Toyota, according to a new study from KPMG. Based on poll...

China denied US doctor's application to visit jailed activist, colleague says     

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide car bombing has killed one civilian and two police officers in the country's east.     

Mortgage rates slipped downward for the third consecutive week; but before would-be refinancers and home buyers cheer too loudly, they may want to ponder the reason why. The federal government shutdown is creating a dark...

BEIJING (AP) -- China's exports suffered an unexpectedly sharp decline in September amid weak global demand but imports grew.     

Delegates at AU summit in Addis Ababa reject what they call Hague court's "double standards in dispensing justice".

Forecasters say Cyclone Phailin could be among the most powerful storms ever to be recorded in the Bay of Bengal after it hits landfall, with a storm surge of as much as 10 feet.     

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. officials say some progress has been made in U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a security deal to allow American troops to remain in the coun...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First it was bad attitudes among young officers in nuclear missile launch centers. Now it's alleged bad behavior by two of the nuclear arsenal's top commanders.     

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea refused to sign a non-aggression pact that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered last week on condition of denuclearization.     

Two referees were arrested during a high school football game in Covington, La., on Friday evening and will be charged with public intimidation. WWLTV.com reported on the matter, citing Covington police captain Jack West...

sfcrazy writes "Valve Software have demonstrated how the controller works in the real world with popular games like Portal 2, Civilization V, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve has posted a video on their YouTub...

McCoy, Texas seniors get Mack Brown much-needed win, 36-20 over No. 12 Oklahoma     

NEW YORK -- With early admission deadlines looming for hundreds of thousands of students, the new version of the online Common Application shared by more than 500 colleges and universities has been plagued by numerous ma...