Three Democratic lawmakers are urging President Barack Obama to tell the nation – and Iran – that he is ready to tap the United States’ Strategic Petroleum...

Qnexa, a diet drug previously rejected by the Food and Drug Administration over safety concerns, should be approved, an advisory panel has said.

The panel of non-FDA...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Heavy rains that reached Acre state in northern Brazil have affected more than 65,000 people in the region, making it the second largest...

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had some harsh words for billionaire Warren Buffett,...

A long-serving security worker and his wife were arrested in Estonia today on suspicion of leaking classified information to the Russian government,...

A Moroccan man suspected of plotting a suicide attack in the U.S. Capitol waived his rights to preliminary and detention hearings in court Wednesday.

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It’s a good bet giving up alcohol for Lent tops the list of many New Orleans revellers today, Ash Wednesday, as thousands departed the morning after Mardi Gras.

There are 258 days until Americans choose who will be president for the next four years but signs are increasing that the Republicans are getting further, not closer, to...

The Indiana state lawmaker who called the Girls Scouts a radical organization that promotes abortion and homosexuality is sticking by his comments despite ridicule from...

Facebook profiles are good predictors of job performance, American researchers have found...

Steven Dyer, a regular on America’s Most Wanted, is back in police custody after a decade running from a dozen sexual abuse charges.

Canadian authorities...

NASA wants to rent out parts of the John F. Kennedy Space Center that it can't afford to keep, according...

Syria's information ministry announced today that foreign journalists illegally in the country should report to the government,...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced today that it will investigate overdraft protection, a business that generates tens of billions of dollars annually for...

US home sales rose by 4.3 percent in January, bringing good economic news to a battered real estate market,...

A gunman shot four people to death inside a Korean health spa in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday night before turning the gun on himself in what authorities are calling a murder-...

President Obama will reveal a proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 35, which is the highest in the world after Japan,...

Divers today located a total of eight more bodies on a passenger deck of the wrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia,...

Shares in Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second-biggest carmaker, have jumped 15 percent after the company revealed it is in talks about a possible alliance with US auto...

At least six people are reported to have been killed in the second day of protests in Afghanistan over reports that NATO troops put copies of the Quran in a garbage...

Riot police have stormed a prison in the Indonesian resort island of Bali after inmates rioted and took control of the facility.

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Cocaine trafficking in West and Central Africa has increased by $100 million annually since 2009, the United Nations announced today....

Some might be persuaded to dig for five years through forest beds in India if the cure for cancer depended on it. Or perhaps for lost treasure.

But for a team of...

Hepatitis C, the sexually transmitted viral infection, now kills more people in the US than does HIV, according to a study from the US Centers for Disease Control and...