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Winglets have been growing in popularity as an add-on to fuel hungry airplanes around the planet. Attached at the extremity of each wing, they act to manage the flow of air passing the craft, reducing the amount of turbu...

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Stephen Rakes, a Boston man with a long-standing grudge against Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, was found dead yesterday, just one day after being told he wouldn't get his chance to testify against his nemesis in court.

Poetry by America's top fighter for international legal justice about corruption in the legal profession.

BOSTON (AP) -- A man who had hoped to testify in the ongoing racketeering trial of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and openly despised him has been found dead, authorities said Thursday.

A witness in the James "Whitey" Bulger case was found dead at the side of the road in Lincoln, Massachusetts just hours after he left the South Boston courtroom where he has attended testimony in the case daily.

A group of satanists say they've given the controversial Westboro Baptist Church a taste of its own medicine, performing a same-sex ritual at the grave of the mother of the church's founder. Members of the Satanist Templ...

The stinging sensation of a bad hit is caused by the vibrations that ripple through the bat after making contact with the baseball. Dan Russell, a professor of acoustics at Penn State University, has been working with ba...

Police have discovered a body in a wooded area just miles from a Michigan convenience store, where a 20-year-old woman was kidnapped and her co-worker was killed.

Alexei Navalny denounced the case as a political show trial.

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JONESBORO, Ill. (AP) -- A physician suspected in four slayings in Nebraska and arrested in Illinois is waiving extradition and will return to Omaha to face murder charges.

There has long been a sense of sexuality to ballet, what with all those sculpted bodies gracefully moving against each other. But now, the art form is being openly compared to pornography.

They're back! For the Season 2 premiere of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," Mama June took away the girls' cell phones. The girls needed to find some way to entertain themselves, and they certainly came up with something inno...

A Moscow mayoral candidate and a vocal Kremlin critic has been found guilty of embezzlement charges, Russia's state news agency RIA-Novosti reported Thursday.

A fast-growing wildfire in the mountains of Southern California forced the evacuation on Wednesday of the popular resort community of Idyllwild after flames engulfed seven homes and numerous other buildings.

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Phil Black profiles Alexei Navalny, the opposition candidate who wanted to fix corruption in Russian politics.

Deep in the desert, at a roadside memorial, Willy Steed paid his respects to his friends, teens who died in a car crash after a beer party. In any other place, this would be a tragic footnote to a common aspect of teenag...

With temperatures in the 90s, D.C.-area homeless shelters are running out of space at a torrent pace, putting homeless women and children at a serious risk, according to a report by WTOP. David Treadwell, the executive d...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee said Thursday that he's "stunned and dismayed" to learn that DNA tests revealed he is not the father of a woman with whom he had an affectionate Twitter exchange ...

Shows like Louie and Enlightened -- small, innovative, unconventional, and staggeringly smart series, -- were nominated for Emmys this morning, a welcome change from the years of Boston Legal. But that doesn't mean that ...