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Minerals found inside a Martian rock were made in a process similar to what colonists used to make apple cider booze.

A teenager posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube chronicling years of bullying, cutting and struggling, weeks before she was found dead at home.

The BBC announces two independent inquiries surrounding sex abuse claims against Sir Jimmy Savile, as police say they now have 340 potential lines of inquiry.

Paul Ryan landed some blows on Joe Biden early last night, and with very few substantive responses, the VP was reduced to loud talking, uncontrollable laughing, and obnoxious smirks that surely turned off voters.

A Dallas woman who beat her 2-year-old daughter and glued the toddler's hands to a wall was sentenced Friday to 99 years in prison by a judge who described his decision as a necessary punishment...

Giant Lego Man, motorcycles, and more appear on beaches

Vice President Joe Biden came out swinging against Republican opponent Paul Ryan in Thursday’s lone vice presidential debate, seemingly determined to avoid repeating President Barack Obama’s laconic perform...

A space shuttle is set to make its first-ever parade through city streets Friday and Saturday, and anyone in the Los Angeles area can get a front-row seat.

MoD opens inquiry into incident that is alleged to have happened last year during skirmish with insurgents in Afghanistan Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder after one of their colleagues came f...

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A giant eyeball that washed ashore and was found by a beachcomber in Pompano Beach, Fla., is mystifying wildlife officials — but probably not for long.

A second Obama term would guarantee the president's health care law will be fully implemented, and businesses are warning that may affect their employees.

While Vice President Biden stressed the importance of "facts" a total of 26 times on the debate stage, those facts required considerable clarification Friday from the White House. 

Mitt Romney says Vice-President Joe Biden made misleading remarks in Thursday's debate about last month's Libya consulate attack.

At campaign stops across Iowa and Ohio this month Mitt Romney has been riling up crowds with his take on the pre-game chant from the fiction Texas football show “Friday Night Lights.” “Clear eyes, full ...

A U.S. Secret Service officer was arrested early Friday morning after police found him passed out on a Miami, Fla., sidewalk. The officer, Aaron Francis Engler, was in Miami as part of the advance team for President Bara...

Search for missing student grips N.H college town.

Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an activ...

Goldman Sachs employees may not be so happy with President Obama and has tough rhetoric about Wall Street and it's showing in the latest campaign finance figures.

Roads are closed after one man dies in a house fire in Aberdeen's Gairn Terrace, to the south of the city centre.

Social media commentary was fairly closely divided on who did better in Thursday night's vice presidential debate, according to NBC Politics' computer-assisted analysis of more than half a million Twitter and Facebook po...

ArgoWarner Bros. Pictures 120 minutes Ben Affleck is officially done atoning for Pearl Harbor, and for shanking hundreds of thousands of American moviegoers in the face back in 2003. Argo, the actor/director's Iran-hosta...

The Obama administration is facing justified scrutiny over its handling of the terrorist attack in Libya that killed four Americans. But GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan—seeking to exploit the incident an...