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Sue Wentz and her husband, Eugene, saved for five years, living in a modest home in a low-income neighborhood of Houston, before they broke ground in January on a 4,300-square-foot...

Sue Wentz and her husband, Eugene, saved for five years, living in a modest home in a low-income neighborhood of Houston, before they broke ground in January on a 4,300-square-foot...

A car bomb exploded near shops and cafes in the northwestern city of Tal Afar late Saturday morning, killing at least six people and wounding at least 50 others. Witnesses...

Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday informed top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, that the government was preparing...

A missile strike from a pilotless U.S. reconnaissance aircraft killed six to 12 people in a group of houses in southern Afghanistan, very close to the border with Pakistan, Pakistani...

Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in...

A Chinese government committee said Thursday that a rush to build schools during the country's recent economic boom might have led to shoddy construction resulting in the deaths of thousands...

Sheldon Keller, an Emmy-winning comedy writer whose work included "Caesar's Hour," one of the jewels of 1950s television, died on Monday at his home in Valencia, Calif. He was 85....

Over the years, MTV has faced accusations that the Video Music Awards telecast has devolved from a celebration of rock 'n' roll rebellion to a parade of celebrity train wrecks....

After months of legal challenges meant to stop her, Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan opened an unusual hearing Wednesday to determine whether she should remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit...