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Court says family can proceed with suit that claims LA hospital put woman in freezer alive

Mom couldn't have full body scans without risking her pregnancy.

Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley's daughter is all grown up.

CHICAGO (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the government will get to the bottom of what happened in a shooting incident at Fort Hood.     

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HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a ruling requiring the Texas prison system to disclose more information about where it gets lethal-injection drugs, reversing a judge who had halted an upcom...

The general in charge of Fort Hood said today there was an "awful lot of heroism" during the shooting rampage by Spc. Ivan Lopez, and he cited a female MP and a chaplain for their actions.

Lebanon's generally open-door policy for Syrians has immensely strained the tiny country's political and economic systems, as well as its overall stability

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The United States is calling on Myanmar to lift travel restrictions on humanitarian workers trying to get to Rakhine state, where tens of thousands of Muslims are living in displacement camps.  �...

America's biggest bank has inadvertently picked a fight with the Russian government, simply by going along with financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. because of the Crimean crisis.     

Authorities said Wednesday the explosion that hit a liquefied natural gas storage facility in Eastern Washington earlier this week threw 250-pound pieces of steel up to 300 yards through the air.     

Thai scrapyard workers accidentally detonated a suspected World War II-era bomb Wednesday, killing seven and injuring 19 after attempting to cut into it with a blowtorch.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- A prison officer in Jamaica has died from bullet wounds inflicted during an attack by gunmen who ambushed him late last month.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is not amused that Samsung is promoting a selfie with the president taken by Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz on a Samsung phone.     

Gabriel García Márquez, widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary Latin American authors, has been admitted to a hospital in Mexico, according to the Ministry of Health.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Suspected Filipino insurgents seized a Chinese tourist and a hotel worker from a dive resort in eastern Malaysia and then fled by speed boat, Malaysian and Philippine officials said Thursda...

The Roberts Court has decided, a la Orwell, that some people are more equal than others. If James Madison wanted to equate money with free speech, he would've drafted it into the Bill of Rights back in 1787. He must be f...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA is suspending its work with Russia except for the International Space Station.     

An ocean at least as large as Lake Superior lies below a thick layer of ice on a moon of Saturn, new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests.

DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co. says it will take a charge of $400 million pretax in the first quarter because of a change in the way it values Venezuela's currency.     

Great news for today as it announced a settlement in its long-running litigation over . Anadarko has agreed to pay $5.15 billion to plaintiffs. News of the settlement sent Anadarko shares soaring 14.5% in the last two ho...