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While Santa and his elves are preparing for their sleigh ride around the world, some impostors have been busy giving jolly old St. Nick a bad name.

Smile: Your computer is watching. Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel. Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize...

Some families like to go all out for their yearly holiday card portraits... and by "all out" we mean creepy, confusing or just plain weird. If you got any of these in the mail, we're very, very sorry. Read More... More o...

Just ahead of the Christmas holiday, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" debuted its 2012 holiday card on Monday. The "Morning Joe" hosts--including Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist--posed for photos clad in festive ...

Around 10,000 homes in Carmarthenshire face possible water supply disruption over a flood-damaged water main.

It was the same Swingline stapler, on the same Staples.com SPLS -2.04% website. But for Kim Wamble, the price was $15.79, while the price on Trude Frizzell's screen, just a few miles away, was $14.29. A key difference: w...

Purse Shopping at Bon Macys2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Did you ever think about the fact that the purses we carry around as women tell a lot about who we are? Not only the style and color of the purse we chose to wear bu...

Gunmen ambush and shoot dead four policemen and injure another five in central Mexico's Michoacan state, in a suspected drug-related attack.

Or not. My number one wish for 2013 is that we focus on the upside and keep a sharp eye out for potential opportunities, and new ways to do everything. The most important thing I’d like to see is a return to predi...

By Salma Touma Bob Clarks says that sharing everything is the secret to his successful marriage with wife Norma Clarks. But after 48 years of marriage, the Redlands, Calif., couple was surprised to discover that their ma...

WASHINGTON -- If you're a fan of burlesque, faeries, science, the DC Rollergirls, medieval weaponry, dressing like a pirate, horror movies, robots and/or women in the comic book industry, you might well be a geek. In whi...

-- Hung on a building in the Connecticut town where 20 children and six adults were killed at an elementary school is a spray-painted sign with four words: "Hug a teacher today." It's a testament to the teachers who spra...

Sandy Hook: After the Shooting, a Stricken Town Struggles On

What was Dickens really doing when he wrote A Christmas Carol?

Original Song: "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey. (The song was first recorded in 1966 by Carla Thomas.) Cover Artist: The one-and-only former Disney star and sassy "X Factor USA" judge, Demi Lovato. She ...

Six children in Texas have been injured by an explosion that happened after gas was poured from a can onto an open fire pit.

An unarmed police officer takes on a man armed with a samurai sword after he attacked a woman on a London street.

MILWAUKEE -- A suburban Milwaukee police officer was found shot and killed on Christmas Eve a couple of hours after a police dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to reach her, and authorities said they were investigating the ...

In what has become a time-honored tradition, news rumors concerning who will cover the next coveted issue of Vogue have arrived. The New York Daily News "has learned" that Beyonce will be covering Vogue's March issue, ci...

First Lady Michelle Obama recently took some time to read the holiday classic "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" to kids at Children's National Medical Center. But one creature was stirring, and it was the Obama family d...

Court expected to give verdict on Friday in case of whistleblower died in November 2009 after nearly a year in jail Russian prosecutors have dropped their accusations against the only person being tried in connection wit...

Six others gravely wounded following gunfight between police and unidentified assailants in Mexican state of Jalisco.