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A juror who sat through three months of testimony in the Jodi Arias murder trial was dismissed today for "misconduct" after Arias' attorneys claimed she made statements showing she was biased.

A night on the town turned into a six-hour-long nightmare after an American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transit van while her handcuffed French boyfriend looked on helplessly, in an incident that's sh...

Authorities investigate whether Florence Banta, 80, accidentally fell from her 17th floor apartment.

Astronomers have watched the sudden brightening of a galaxy and realized it can mean only one thing: a supermassive black hole has "woken up" and feasted after a long period of hibernation. ->

This article cites recent news about the bank confiscations of depositors' savings and other frightening economic trends. It also summarizes current negative environmental news. It argues that we need a global vision and...

A recent Fast Company article (for my part, a must-read for senior leaders) creates a compelling case on "Why Good Design Is Finally A Good Bottom Line Investment." But how many businesses today, particularly service bus...

Quest boldly! Create a project that turns you on and excites your soul. Quest to train for a triathlon, learn to play the piano, write a book or create the finest macram-- the world has ever seen. Oh heck! Go out and cle...

California has taken the idea of managed care for low-income seniors and people with disabilities to a whole new level. Under an agreement with the Obama Administration announced last week, the state will begin shifting ...

Some agencies have avoided or delayed the worst of it

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After a rosin bag exploded over pitcher A.J. Burnett during the opening-day game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs, there was just one question on everybody's lips: Was the powdered blast part of a snea...

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It seems John Mayer has learned a thing or two about kissing and telling! Just a few weeks after splitting from girlfriend Katy Perry, Mayer, 35, who once blabbed about his romance with Jennifer Aniston and famously refe...

Josh Elliott shares a YouTube video of a woman finding out she's going to be a grandma.

Lifetime will premiere an hour-long documentary that pays tribute to Cher's mom Georgia Holt on May 6. "Dear Mom, Love Cher" will focus on the singer's family history and features interviews with Holt, her daughters Cher...

Over the past week, we've seen a tsunami of stories about the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act," more accurately known as Section 735 of HR 933. The Genetic Literacy Project's Jon Entine reports the story behind the st...

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A transgender Arizona man who was denied a divorce by a judge last week on grounds the state does not recognize same sex marriages said today that he plans to appeal the ruling.

Ronan was taught to keep a beat by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

I'm sitting on an Acela train from Washington, D.C., to New York City, comfortably tapping my keyboard at 100 MPH. Just a few hours earlier, I was not in such a calm condition. Super Storm Saturn was bearing down on the ...

It's really quite depressing to watch the utter destruction of another Arab state unfold, framed once again as some kind of project for humanitarianism and/or democracy. It's depressing to know that it will engender chao...

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