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A series of text messages tipped off authorities to an alleged Columbine-inspired plot by two high school students to detonate bombs during a school assembly, ...

Police said a group of suspected militants attacked a police station in Nigeria’s Kano province on Friday.

The chief executive of JPMorgan says he can understand some of the grievances of the Occupy movement, describing some of Wall Street’s actions as “a ...

More than 50 protesters opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime stormed the Syrian Embassy building in Cairo on Friday, smashing windows and tearing down ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has suddenly shifted his attitude toward the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, as violence spreads across northern Nigeria. ...

Obama: Bush Is Food Stamp President, Not Me... (Third column, 4th story, link) Related stories: REAL GDP: ...

Demi Moore 'smoked something' before convulsions: 911 tape... (Third column, 10th story, link)

Chavez's daughter sparks anger in Venezuela after posting ...

JEOPARDY! contestants can't name Rachel Maddow... (Third column, 9th ...

REAL GDP: 1.7% FOR YEAR... (Third column, 2nd story, link) Related stories: Food Stamps Up 45%; Federal ...

A team of demolition workers has discovered a ghostly image while knocking down a former boarding house.

A memorial service for the Worcestershire and England cricketer Basil D’Oliveira has been held at Worcester Cathedral.

A host of international writers including several Nobel laureates issue a joint statement condemning attacks on journalists in Mexico.

Two brothers are charged with the murder of a man who was found shot, decapitated and burnt in Stockport.

The Ulster Unionist MLA David McNarry resigns from the Ulster Unionist assembly group.

Just two months after the International Atomic Energy Agency released a detailed report on Iran’s nuclear program, the agency is headed back to Tehran. It ...

Newt Gingrich laid out his case for an activist policy in Latin America. Mitt Romney spoke warmly about the prospect of statehood for Puerto Rico.

The son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has been prevented from leaving the country. He and others who work for foreign groups are under suspicion ...

Scratching an itchy ankle is more satisfying than relieving an itch on your back or arm. Even if you thought you knew that, scientists now ...

Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg projects that President Obama would bury Newt Gingrich in the Electoral College. The president has also gained ground against Mitt Romney.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people in the latest brazen ...

Benghazi: Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some ...

Syrian security forces killed 34 civilians, including 10 children, in clashes across the country today, a rights group said. “The toll for the day has ...

The Pentagon proposed taking some 100,000 troops off active duty as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war, but vowed new investments ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Boko Haram to identify themselves and state clearly their demands as a basis for talks. “If they clearly identify ...

The American economy picked up a little steam last quarter, with output growing at an annualized rate of 2.8 percent, a faster rate than the ...

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday said French troops would leave a year early, by the end of 2013.

The former governor of Massachusetts moved past his rival, Newt Gingrich, heading into the final weekend before the vote.

Heavy bloodshed was reported Friday as Arab League monitors expressed exasperation and the United Nations made a step toward a possible resolution condemning the government.

Producers cite credibility and resonance when explaining how it is that women are the second-choice sex when it comes to voicing movie trailers.

If the president would protect steel, motor vehicles, computers and machine tools like President Reagan did, it would create millions of jobs. President Obama refuses ...

Forty-eight years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson handed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. the pen he’d just used to sign the Civil Rights Act…

Newt Gingrich’s potential jackpot victory in Florida on Tuesday will only come at the behest of conservative Republican voters who don’t like Romney. Gingrich is ...

Weight management is an everyday struggle for many Americans and there is an abundance of quick-fix gimmicky diets on the market.

Meet Caitlin Doughty of Los Angeles, California — a feisty 27-year-old Mortician and, thanks primarily to Jezebel, rapidly-rising Internet sensation.

Female voice is heard saying actress was having convulsions after smoking something that wasn’t marijuana VIDEO: Demi 911 Call Fran Drescher Claims She ...

Some critics say banks get off easy, others says banks hit hard in proposal that would cost companies billions DOJ Launches Unit to Probe Mortgage-Backed ...

Connecticut towns brace for sweeping defense cuts that could eliminate sub and aircraft manufacturing jobs F-35 Stealth Jet’s Future Still Up in the Air

US man who allegedly killed Connecticut jeweler, stole diamonds, is found hanged in Spanish jail cell Classmate Outed Utah Bomb Plot Suspects Connecticut Home Invasion ...

A bill introduced by Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey would prohibit the use of aborted fetuses in food products.

A new law prohibits Kaleidoscoping while driving, Joe Biden advertises guitar lessons on the White House bulletin board, and Romneymania sweeps the nation.

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TRENTON, NJ— Citing the nearly 1,500 deaths that occurred in the United States last year as a result of kaleidoscoping while driving, New Jersey governor ...

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