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Police in Wixom, Mich., arrested a suspect they believe to be a highway gunman responsible for 24 attacks, which made residents of the Detroit suburb nervously eye each passing car for weeks.

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President Obama was reduced to tears when thanking his campaign staffers at the Chicago headquarters.

UN envoy Gordon Brown says the courage of shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai woke Pakistan's silent majority as national leaders vow to get five million out-of-school children into classes by 2015.

Could sex with robots help extend human life spans? Some futurists seem to think so. A Nov. 7 article on the futurist website Transhumanity argues that robot lovers could help extend life spans by giving users mind-blowi...

It took 24 doses of anti-venom, four days of hospital intensive care, and two weeks at home for 16-year-old Vera Oliphant to recover from six rattlesnake bites. Oliphant, who is from El Cajon, Calif., was visiting her...

Throughout the presidential campaign, Republicans repeatedly accused the Obama administration of waging a "war on coal." This despite the fact that the number of coal jobs is actually higher now than it was when Presiden...

Financial prospects for the U.S. have deteriorated to a state where the probability of a default in the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is actually higher than a handful of top tier U.S. publicly traded corp...

Sauce for the Canada Goose.... In a note today Tyler Crowe of  Motley Fool mocks the idea of patriotic Americans  buying American cars. He  argues that the fact that a car bears a Ford or General Motors badge do...

The new angelfish joins the long line of genetically engineered fish, though this one won't be at your pet store anytime soon.

With long lines persisting at gas pumps, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said an odd-even rationing rule would go into effect at 6 a.m. Friday, and counties on Long Island announced a similar system.

Sky News is shown evidence of cluster bombs allegedly being used by the Assad regime against civilians.

Having a total hip replacement increases the risk of a stroke in the two weeks immediately after the operation, according to records of patients in Denmark.

The historic measure to regulate and tax marijuana in Washington State deserves to be looked at closely as a model of how legalization ought to be designed and implemented elsewhere in America.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Staffers at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission failed to encrypt some of their computers containing highly sensitive information from stock exchanges, leaving the data vulnerable to cyber ...

Former Lockeford priest Michael Kelly and the Stockton Diocese have been sued for the third time on allegations that Kelly sexually abused former altar boys. The most recent lawsuit was filed by Orange County attorney Jo...

If you're poor and you live in the South, there's a good chance health care reform won't reach you. Intransigent Republican governors from Florida to Texas remain steadfastly resistant to President Barack Obama's plan to...

Police trying to solve the murder of a Texas teen have arrested one man and questioned another accused of sexually assaulting the victim, but say they have not named a suspect or person of interest in the case. "We are u...

Any fashion-forward woman likely has at least one Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress in her closet. But what these fashionistas may not know is that the iconic frock was actually inspired by the designer's divorce. Instead...

A key pillar of American civil rights law is now in danger of being nullified by the Supreme Court.  Shelby County, Alabama, is seeking to have Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the law that first guaranteed the rig...

Republicans agree immigration reform is imminent, but disagree on how widespread reforms should be.