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Lindsay Lohan booked then released as a formality after pleading no contest in car crash case

Sanford advances to GOP runoff in House race in SC; winner to face comedian Colbert's sister

1,000-year-old Chinese bowl found for $3 at tag sale sells at NYC auction for $2.22 million

Per the United Nations, today is the first International Day of Happiness, though we're not sure if that's possible on the ten-year anniversary of the war in Iraq while White House tours are suspended. The Tea Party Cauc...

VeryFirstTo.com claims this £990,000 (just shy of $1.5 million) is, fittingly, given the site's name, the very first of its kind. The price tag, based on two people traveling together, includes Mexico's ancient city o...

Malala Yousafzai Returns to School 5 Months After Being Shot by the Taliban

No charges will be filed against a man who posted online a photo of his young son holding what appeared to be a military-style rifle, police said Wednesday. In a moment of heightened sensitivity around guns and gun contr...

A Mexican politician wants election cancelled because rivals "lied" about her past.

Cyprus Banking Crisis: Will Russia Ride to the Rescue?

PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon man who killed two people in Portland last year was released from an overcrowded county jail just weeks before the first killing, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Crowded jails and early release h...

CoStar Group (CSGP), a provider of information and marketing services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States as well as the United Kingdom, has seen consensus estimates fall meaningfully lo...

After lathering up deficits of roughly $350,000 a year over the past 15 years, Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer says it’s time to give the U.S. Senate barbershop a trim, the Weekly Standard reports. The Sen...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to avert a government shutdown next week by keeping agencies and discretionary programs funded through the fiscal year ending on September 30.

We are on the precipice of the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world. In the decades to come, we will witness millions of elderly Americans, the Baby Boomers and others, slipping into poverty. Too frail ...

Apple and Samsung have apparently become embroiled in a watch war. Samsung just announced that it is, in fact, working

Actress Lindsay Lohan turned herself in and was officially booked yesterday, after agreeing to go to rehab for the sixth time as part of a plea deal Monday. So what does this really mean for the star's future - and futur...

The mother of a missing New Orleans-area school teacher said it is time to broaden the nearly three-week search for her daughter.

Two years ago, John Havens was a 42-year-old actor-turned-author/PR consultant obsessed with his Klout score and his postings on Twitter and Facebook. He had lost his psychiatrist father two months before and he was incr...

A Marine who lost both legs to a bomb was "humiliated" at a TSA security checkpoint in an Airzona airport when the agents insisted he stand up and was also told to remove his prosthetic legs, a California congressman cla...

Men who have children after they turn 50 not only increase their children’s risk for developing autism, but may increase their grandchildren’s risk for developing it, too, researchers at Sweden’s Kar...

The Washington Post is looking for a new Style blogger and says the winning candidate should expect to write a dozen posts a day. That's led to a few raised eyebrows out in the blogosphere, but Ed Kilgore at Political An...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Survivors of Guatemala's bloody civil war relived the massacre of relatives as they took the stand on Wednesday to testify against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who is accused of allowing gen...