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Padma Lakshmi is pretty much perfect. In the December issue of Playboy, the “Top Chef” host and former model strips down to a lace negligee and reveals that she doesn’t like dudes who shower her with g...

TIME TO TALK TOILETS Over 40% of the world has zero access to a toilet.    People are forced to do their private business in public streets, fields or nearby waterways.  Diseases spread, girls drop out of school...

Allyn Rose lost her mother to breast cancer when she was just a teenager, so after the newly-crowned Miss District of Columbia competes in the Miss America pageant in January, she will undergo a double mastectomy as a pr...

Lucille Bliss has passed away at the age of 96, but her voice lives on through iconic cartoon characters like Smurfette of “The Smurfs,” Anastasia from “Cinderella,” and more recently Yagoda from ...

David H. Petraeus apologized to lawmakers for his affair, but lawmakers turned their attention to statements by Ambassador Susan E. Rice over the Libya attack.

9-year-old boy charged with murder in toddler's beating death in St. Louis suburb

DAVIE -- Linda Owen may want to cry, but tears won't help feed the hundreds of hungry families needing her help this Thanksgiving -- if she can figure out who some of them are. She turns to answer the phone, which has be...

When you're cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner, you want at least one super-easy side dish to create time for wrestling with the turkey and making complicated desserts. I've got one for you: It's simple, quick, involves a...

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- An Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed near a Florida Panhandle highway Thursday, but the pilot was able to eject safely and there were no injuries on the ground, the military said. ...

Today Zulily, a daily deals site for moms, announced it has raised $85 million in Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. According to Fortune, this investment now values the company at $1 billion. "Zulily is one...

Nutella (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I was in the UK years ago, a friend offered me a slice of bread with a creamy brown spread on top. "Try it," she said, "You'll like it." Like it? I loved it. As in couldn't believe ...

A Missouri man was arrested for planning an Aurora-style shooting during a weekend screening of Twilight.

James Landale on why people will vote when it matters

The anti-virus software creator is wanted for murder in Belize.

Rotten food, limited access to sunlight, and even arbitrary solitary confinement: For undocumented immigrants in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, detention could mean all that and more. According to the...

"Web Therapy" has been renewed for its third season. The Showtime comedy, starring and co-created by Lisa Kudrow, will have a ten-episode Season 3, which will air in 2013. Kudrow's fellow "Friends" alum, Matt LeBlanc -- ...

Republican senators' angry criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of...

After five weeks of naughty nuns, electroshock therapy, aliens, severed limbs, Nazis and a serial killer in question, Bloody Face was finally revealed on "American Horror Story: Asylum" (Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX) ....

A day after the Department of Justice and BP reached a settlement on criminal charges related to the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, another rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico. An oil platform owned by Black E...

Is there essential dissonance between the Creationist Paradigm and Right Wing Politics?

Samoa pile further misery on Wales with another historic win in Cardiff to apply even more pressure on interim coach Robert Howley.