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Kayla Wheeler, 16, holds the Paralympics world record in the 50-meter butterfly.

What at first seemed like an episode that would separate the girls and the boys on "The Big Bang Theory" instead turned into a strange game of Dungeons & Dragons that they all "enjoyed" together. Sheldon was certainly en...

A woman was rescued Friday after spending 17 days trapped in the ruins of a Bangladesh factory that collapsed April 24, killing more than 1,000.

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I often come across people who have a deep desire to be an entrepreneur and start their own business, but who haven't done so yet because they "can't come up with a good idea." Too often I hear: "All of my ideas are dumb...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon man who stripped naked during a security check at Portland International Airport says he expects the Transportation Security Administration to uphold its $1,000 fine at a hearing Tuesday.

In a stunning development out of Bangladesh, worker cleaning up the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory say they've found a woman still alive after more than two weeks trapped under the debris.

Sheriff's officials alerted people in the area to watch for the four tan-colored dogs, and they were using a helicopter to search for them.

Officials would not say whether the case was related to a deadly fertilizer plant explosion last month, but they opened a criminal inquiry.

On the same day authorities in Texas launched a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant explosion that occurred in West, Texas, last month, a first responder who worked at the explosion was arrested for having a...

ISLAMABAD -- Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed...

Sharon Richard of Toledo, Ohio, a town located just 90 miles from Cleveland, knows too well the burden of living through sex abuse in horrendous captivity and then struggling with freedom.

A new report from the New York Fed describes a disturbing trend: student loan debt has increased so much that it's crowding out the ability of college graduates to buy homes. As the chart on the right shows, young worker...

It's entirely possible that I'm one of the only games journalists out there still playing Diablo 3 quite regularly at this point in time. We all had our fun a while ago at launch, decrying the game for it's always online...

From his seat on the 17th floor of Viacom's Times Square office, Colin Helms is on the front line the television industry's next iteration. As the senior vice president of digital media at MTV, he is tasked with guiding ...

Vonita Murray says that getting laid off from her architecture job was the best thing that's ever happened to her. It gave her a chance to re-evaluate, and she decided that her true passion was in fact farming. The crops...

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CLEVELAND (AP) -- The man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home terrorized the mother of his children, frequently beating her, playing twisted psychological games and locking her indoo...

How were three teenage girls allegedly lured into car and held captive for ten years?

A Democratic bill introduced in the Senate and House on Thursday would prevent student loan rates from doubling as scheduled in July, while capping them in the future and permitting students to refinance current loans to...

"Big Banks Push Against Tighter Rules," says the headline in this piece from the Wall Street Journal. 'Twas ever thus, but now, "big banks" are doing so more overtly, and with more gusto, and with all kinds of interestin...