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No one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors. She was finally hospitalized — and a 2-inch feather eventually poked its way out of her neck, shocking ev...

John McAfee arrived in Miami after being deported from Guatemala, another turn in a strange journey that began after he was sought for questioning in a death in Belize.

More than 30 incoming medical school students will get a full ride to UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine thanks to a $100-million gift from the school's benefactor. The donation by Geffen, a philanthropist and entert...

The SDLP's Conal McDevitt becomes the latest politician in Northern Ireland to receive a death threat, and a DUP office is vandalised, amid ongoing protests over flags.

President Vladimir Putin questions why the US Congress passed a bill aimed at barring Russians implicated in an anti-corruption lawyer's death.

A charity reveals excuses used by dog owners when giving their pets up and asks people to think carefully before getting a puppy.

As President Obama and congressional Republicans wrangle over the terms of a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the likelihood of small business owners making significant investments in their companies over the ne...

The National Labor Relations Board -- the federal agency tasked with protecting employees from unfair management or union practices -- has become a biased advocate for big labor, according to a newly released congression...

UN ambassador tells Obama 'I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly'. Follow developments here Tom McCarthy

WASHINGTON -- The science may be sketchy, but how's the food? Alternative medicine kingpin Dr. Andrew Weil, a founder of the True Food Kitchen restaurant chain with six locations in the western United States, hopes to op...

American voters are sharply divided over how things went this year, and they continue to give President Obama mixed reviews.  Meanwhile, voters are almost twice as likely to say Obama will be one of the country's "worst...

A bill pushed by the National Rifle Association to eliminate criminal background checks for many handgun buyers in Michigan was rejected by state lawmakers Wednesday, after a furious lobbying effort by law enforcement of...

You're unlikely to find two characters as diametrically opposed as Seth Gabel's new villain (dubbed "The Count") on "Arrow" and his understated performance in new film "Allegiance" (released Dec. 28 in New York and Los A...

Police appeal for witnesses after a man suffered serious head injuries when three men shoved him from a bus in Ipswich.

A 21-year-old woman has been charged by police investigating dissident republican activity.

WASHINGTON — Wounded veterans and their spouses wanting to have children could get treatments such as in vitro fertilization through the government under legislation beginning to move through Congress in its wanin...

Julianne Moore will return to "30 Rock" for the series finale. In a statement to the Associated Press, Moore revealed that she'll be back on the NBC comedy. "I'm in a van on my way to Queens to do '30 Rock,'" Moore said ...

RICHMOND, Va. — One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night of President Barack Obama's re-election, the sc...

The University of Chicago bookstore may want to stock up on bullwhips, fedoras and leather jackets. And if they have access to the Ark of the Covenant, couldn't hurt to have it on hand, either. That's because Henry Walto...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama, withdrew her name from consideration as secretary of state on Thursday in the face of what pr...

Andrea Mitchell commented on Amb. Susan Rice withdrawing her name from consideration for secretary of state on Thursday. Speaking on MSNBC, Mitchell said: I think this had become sort of an impossible challenge for her t...

UN Ambassador Susan Rice withdraws her name for consideration from the race to succeed Hillary Clinton as US secretary of state, the White House says.