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Virtually all the children a French aid group tried to fly out of Chad last week had been living with family members in villages and were not orphans of the...

Searching for a vacation home to complement nearly 50 acres in Pope Valley, Calif., Dan Edmonds-Waters studied home designs online, visited a factory and even traveled to Missouri to tour...

Japan's Defense Ministry ordered home its naval ships from the Indian Ocean on Thursday, ending for now a six-year mission in support of the war in Afghanistan that raised the...

When Larry Pinczower switches on his cell phone, the seal of a rabbinate council appears. Unable to send text messages, take photographs or connect to the Internet, his phone is...

When Michael Krasner renovated his four-bedroom vacation home in Bushkill, Pa., last year, he revamped the kitchen, added a whirlpool bath and installed a four-person cedar-walled sauna with an electric...

The Army medic was climbing into a helicopter outside Baqubah, Iraq, when he felt the bullets sear through his left thigh. He lurched backward, crumpled to the ground. His pants...

She spent her early years playing in the back yard of a small house in Reno learning American Sign Language from the scientists who adopted her, and by age 5...

Thomas Meskill, who in his one term as governor in the early 1970s steered Connecticut from the edge of bankruptcy, instituted a state lottery and oversaw the creation of a...

At 29, Danny Basavich has already peaked at his chosen profession. Basavich is an immensely gifted pool hustler, or used to be until his reputation spread, making it hard for...

The nation's top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation intended to strengthen the agency that polices thousands of consumer goods, from toys...