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The badly injured Boston bombing suspect still cannot speak, but is answering questions in writing, according reports.

Richie Havens, the folk singer who opened the legendary 1969 Woodstock rock festival, dies of a heart attack at 72.

I had the honor to present at the Big Data Innovation Summit recently. The conference gathered some of the greatest minds in the space; from , to , to , to Citibank, to the NYSE and EBay, everyone seemed to be there.

Seoul cancels visit by foreign minister after Taro Aso, deputy prime minister under Shinzo Abe, leads trip to war memorial South Korea has abruptly cancelled a trip to Tokyo by its foreign minister in protest at visits t...

Reese Witherspoon is "deeply embarrassed" about what she said to police officers during her husband's arrest in Atlanta.

Marathon hero pays visit to bombing victim's bedside and recalls tragic day.

Police: Actress Reese Witherspoon arrested disorderly conduct charge after traffic stop

Thousands apply to become one of four astronauts selected to set up a human colony in a plan that comes with snags A few months before he died, Carl Sagan recorded a message of hope to would-be Mars explorers, telling th...

Remember how the Mitt Romney-espoused "self-deportation" rhetoric was supposed to end up in the dustbin of history following President Obama's huge margins among Latino voters back in November? Apparently no one told Kri...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today defended accepting tens of thousands of dollars in political donations from hotel developers who need the approval of his administration for their projects.

Flight Delays and Furloughs: Sequestration Begins to Bite

Cogito ergo sum. French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed this idea in 1637, which translates to "I think, therefore I am." Certainly the power of abstract thought is what separates humans from other animals.

Massachusetts a week after the Boston Marathon bombing

I had coffee with a friend of mine this week. She started her own company a few years ago. I think we share some of the same challenges in that, but also the same joy. We choose what we do with our days and if we see som...

Woodstock performer Richie Havens dies of heart attack at 72

WASHINGTON -- Ben Bernanke is intensifying speculation that this year will be his last as Federal Reserve chairman by deciding to skip the Fed's annual August conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Jackson Hole has long been a...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the US intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether y...

April showers couldn't stop all of the sunny wedding celebrations that took place this weekend! Click through the slideshow below to see some real wedding moments captured by those who attended them. If you go to a weddi...

After running the Boston Marathon on a broken foot, Dr. Natalie Stavas raced to save as many lives as possible. As Stavas and her radiologist dad, Joe, neared the finish line after running a grueling 26.2 miles, the pair...

Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan announced a $133 million gift on Monday to Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. It will fund the creation of The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innova...

The shaggy 19-year-old accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing with his older brother "appears calm" in a panicked crowd, federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint filed Monday. The complaint offers ...

The financial crisis is seen as taking a toll on individual countries' defense capabilities as well as their role in helping the United States finance NATO.