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The 113th annual Christmas Bird Count is now underway, with Audubon making it easier than ever for you, your family and friends to participate in this fun and rewarding holiday tradition.

Parents, teachers hesitant about NRA's proposal to put an armed officer in every school

Mark Perry has posted some interesting comparison of how prices have plummeted between 1958 and 2012 when measured in terms of the hours of work required to purchase items. He concludes that today’s consumer worki...

Why the NYSE Sold Out (To a Company You've Never Heard Of)

A retired British economist and his wife are found bludgeoned to death at their home in Tasmania.

Back when Facebook only had millions of users instead of a billion, before Timeline and the bungled IPO and outrage over privacy issues, people "poked" each other on the social network. The poke, which is still around bu...

Data competition company Kaggle is offering startups free learning competitions.

A law aimed at turning gay minors straight will not continue.

Judge Myron H. Thompson ruled in favor of a group of prisoners who argued in a class-action lawsuit that they had been stigmatized.

Did you leave your Christmas shopping for the very last minute? Not to worry. America's retailers have got you covered. Here is a list of stores that will be open on Christmas Eve: Best BuyRead More... More on Christmas

Spectacular art heists may be imbued with a mythological, almost romantic status, but the underworld reality is far murkier. It was just after 2am when the lone, hooded man approached one of the museum's south-facing win...

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is yet another wake-up call that our school children deserve something more and something soon.  

Nate Phelps, the son of Westboro Baptist Church's founder Fred Phelps, appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to discuss the controversial organization's plans to picket funerals of children killed in the Newtown, Conn., el...

Staff and drinkers at a pub in Llancarfan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, have rescued a woman from the River Carfan before her car was washed away under a bridge.

At least 83 people have died in Ukraine from a cold snap that has been gripping the country, officials say.

FORKS, Wash. -- Hiking over primitive coastal trails, a team reached a dock that apparently floated from Japan after last year's tsunami and just washed ashore on a Washington beach, and an official said the group found ...

In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, countless celebrities have joined millions of Americans in a plea for gun control -- Jesse James is not one of those celebrities. The former reality sho...

The prosecution of the Heythrop Hunt is unlikely to stop 250,000 turning out on what is traditionally the busiest day of the hunting calendar Patrick Martin gestures towards 45 yapping fox hounds and breaks into a grin. ...

Pudding Monsters is the first new game from Zentolab since Cut the Rope. Does humanity need another addictive touch-screen app? We all feel like we’ve wasted plenty of time on Angry Birds, Where’s My Water?...

The Jews are better off without Israel.

After the mass murder in an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut, on Friday, December 14, some formerly unyielding gun-rights supporters in Congress began to change their views, and it started to look as if the Natio...

Sure, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey set a December record last weekend when it opened with $84.5 million, but after eight days in theaters, it’s now clear that the Lord of the Rings prequel is running well beh...