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Opponents of gay marriage petitioned the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately reinstate a 5-year-old ban on same-sex matrimony in California, saying a federal appeals court had acted prematurely in removing the prohi...

More records broke Saturday as a heat wave kept its grips on California and the West.

Visions of sounding rockets streaking through a bluish-black New Mexico sky conjure the earliest days of Cold War rocketry.

STARKE, Fla. -- A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse. As a small group o...

Spencer Lubitz a reporter with KNTV in Las Vegas spoke to BBC News about the effect of the extreme heat.

Chicago Park District¿s Promontory Point, off 55th Street in Hyde Park, was off limits to the public Saturday for the wedding reception of Star Wars creator George Lucas and Chicago businesswoman Mellody Hobson. The eve...

Crowds are gathering in Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of a mass rally to demand the resignation of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

CAIRO (AP) -- Massive crowds thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace in a cheering tide of people that filled a broad avenue for blocks in an attempt to f...

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators line streets to demand president's removal on first anniversary of his inauguration Millions of Egyptians filled streets across Egypt on Sunday calling for the departure of Mohamed ...

Hissene Habre to be tried in special court over alleged political killings and torture during his 1982-1990 rule.

Could something as simple as drinking green tea protect you from developing Alzheimer's? A host of new studies have looked at various aspects of how green tea affects the brain, and concluded yes.

Gay Pride parades celebrate marriage after Supreme Court rulings.

When Mariam Diallo fled her home in Mali after Islamists threatened her for not wearing a full head scarf, she decided to grab her favorite pair of intricate earrings before setting off to a refugee camp: Beyond just bei...

A growing number of American workers are confronting a frustrating predicament on payday: to get their wages, they must first pay a fee.

June ended with a bang for the Marlins.

Brazil has no injury worries and is expected to field the same team that beat Uruguay for Sunday's final against Spain. Selecao boss Luiz Felipe Scolari has named the same starting XI in three of his side's four matches ...

The notorious asterisk (*) is applied to discredited sports records. Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories have been followed by an * in the record books since his admission of doping. Richard Nixon is modern ...

Hissène Habré, who is accused of the killing and torture of thousands of people in Chad in the 1980s, had evaded prosecution while living in Senegal.

After Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis' 11-hour filibuster helped defeat a controversial anti-abortion bill aimed at severely cutting access to abortion services across Texas, even her Republican colleagues had to express th...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island's public pension system has been recognized by an investment magazine as the best small public pension plan in the nation.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Jeremy Hellickson earned his fifth June win and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 Sunday in a game that included an early warning by the umpires. Hellickson (7-3) allowed one run over...

The Judge who, all alone, decided that it was okay for the NSA and whoever else had access, to spy on ALL Americans.