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Cast members of ABC’s “Modern Family” found themselves trapped in a crowded elevator for nearly an hour on their way to headline a fundraiser in Kansas City, Mo. Actors Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet, a...

It’s not easy being a superhero--or cheap, either. Superheroes like to equip themselves with the latest in high-tech gadgetry, a plethora of weaponry, and the best vehicles ego can buy. Luckily for DC Universeâ�...

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. The simple reason is that everyone expects quick results, no one can make that happen, and users get very unhappy very quickly. Even the main industry...

In 2006, professional BMX athlete Mike Spinner¹ made the jump from performing as an amateur when he won the Free Flow Tour, the official amateur series of the Dew Tour.  Six years later, and after continually...

NEW YORK -- Just across the East River from midtown Manhattan's shimmering skyscrapers sits one of the nation's most polluted neighborhoods, fouled by generations of industrial waste, overflow from the city's sewage syst...

James Franco refuses to back down from the ex-NYU professor who sued the actor for calling him a "bad teacher" -- insisting the guy not only sucks at teaching, but he also screwed up his own lawsuit. Franco has just file...

What can we say about Joe Flacco this morning?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States lurched into a new budget crisis on Friday as President Barack Obama and Republicans failed to agree on stopping broad spending cuts that could dampen economic growth and curb mil...

A popular Connecticut high school basketball coach will be reinstated to his position this weekend after allegedly being forced out when a controversial, decade-old film he appeared in was emailed to his bosses. The f...

The Berkshire Hathaway chief executive, who famously said in 2011 he was using an elephant gun to hunt for acquisitions, on Friday said he is back on the prowl for more to expand the conglomerate.

WASHINGTON -- A major gathering of pro-Israel activists and lobbyists that kicks off here this weekend arrives at a time of heightened budget austerity and an aggravated level of uncertainty over Israel's place in the bi...

By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is getting an earful about the big spending cuts beginning to hit government services from worried and irate constituents, including one senator's own s...

This statement was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not gu...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — No. 8 Florida showed the kind of resiliency that could come in handy in the postseason. Casey Prather had 10 points and nine rebounds, most of them in the second half, and the Gators rallied fr...

A group of free-speech advocates is rallying behind an Indiana inmate serving two years for his online rants against a judge who took away his child-custody rights during a divorce case.

Evernote, the online note-taking app, is the latest cloud service to be hit by hackers.

Military spokesman says al-Qaeda leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar shot dead by Chadian troops during operation in north Mali.

Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s death was announced on state television in Chad, but the claim has not been confirmed.

Analysis: Raul Castro’s recent announcement that he will leave power in 2018, and his appointment of 52-year-old Miguel Diez-Canel as first vice president and his de facto successor, are signs of the glacial pace ...

Chad's military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dea...

Whatever happened to the flu pandemic?  In 2009, a new flu strain swept across the world. The new strain, called H1N1, emerged from pigs and jumped over to humans sometime in late 2008, and then swept through the huma...