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A hotel that bills itself as the world's most luxurious is giving guests the ultimate in over-the-top amenities: A 24-carat gold iPad at check in. Dubai's Burj Al Arab hotel claims to be the first in the world to offer t...

Ronald Poppo, 66, is in good health and spirits despite being blind and having cut off contact with family members, his caregivers said.

A Chinese fishing crew seized by unidentified North Koreans two weeks ago is freed along with their boat, reports say.

Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Jason Sudeikis are on their way out at Saturday Night Live. Given the crowdedness but odd insularity of the comedy scenes in New York, Chicago, and L.A., finding new cast member...

Xbox Looks Beyond Gaming With New 'One' Console

A far-right historian reportedly shot himself just days after blogging about his anger over a law allowing gay marriage

After the big acquisition announcement Yahoo and Tumblr CEOs talk about why the two are a good fit.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Baton Rouge Metro Airport will give a standard incentive package to Elite Airways when the company begins flying out of the market in July.

Scientists have used plant samples collected in the 19th Century to identify the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.

Back in October 2011 I first wrote about Italian engineer, Andrea Rossi, and his E-Cat project, a device that produces heat through a process called a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR).

Q & A: The Seal Sniper Killing Revisited

A former Philadelphia cop once hailed as a hero is facing 16 charges, including rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and making terroristic threats, as well as a bail of $60 million after he allegedly sexually a...

Mikkel Kessler says "he is at his peak" before his world title fight against Carl Froch in London on Saturday.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Family members of victims slain by various acts of gun violence across the country converged on Nevada's Capitol Tuesday urging lawmakers to approve universal background checks on gun purchases ...

Senator Carl Levin has dubbed it the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance." According to the Chair of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Apple's "complex web" of international subsidiaries helped the company sh...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivia's culture minister calls it actor-activist Sean Penn's "worst performance" ever. He isn't talking about a movie.

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait for their parents to pick them up.

Today's people may read of the circumstances of "The Days Before," but they cannot be expected to truly understand them. It is possible to survive without welfare, Social Security, and Medicaid, but to those forced to li...

Survivor of the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado relives the loss of two grandchildren, 6 and 10, who were ripped from their mother's arms while the family huddled for safety in a bathtub. She tells those separated from their c...

ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) -- A town judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's Economic Development Corp. has a new leader after the state Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved Gov. Lincoln Chafee's pick to head the agency, still reeling from its failed inve...

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Lawyers in the court-martial of an Army private who sent more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks said Tuesday they have reached a deal that may eliminate the need for testimony fr...