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People who suffer from chronic headaches have been known to try all sorts of pills and home remedies. But cayenne peppers? Behind the folk wisdom is capsaicin, the active ingredient...

Nearly eight months after he was fired for making a racially and sexually disparaging remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Don Imus went back on the radio at 6...

You might make some assumptions about Jonathan Rojewski when you hear about his life. A former finance guy, that modern catchall for someone who plays with numbers and wears a...

A man with a deep voice may have a survival advantage, a better chance of passing on his genes. Researchers have found that men with deeper voices have more children...

Congress is considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines...

The collection of child support from absent fathers is failing to help many of the poorest families, in part because the government uses fathers' payments largely to recoup welfare costs...

Hundreds of demonstrators in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, poured into the streets Friday demanding the execution of a British teacher who was convicted of insulting Islam because her class of 7-year-olds...

Israeli authorities who were investigating whether Prime Minister Ehud Olmert acted criminally in the 2005 sale of a bank recommended Thursday that the case be closed, citing a lack of...

Gudrun Wagner, who as the wife of the director of the Bayreuth Festival played a major behind-the-scenes role in guiding the event, died Thursday in Bayreuth, Germany. She was 63....

Marking the 14th anniversary of legislation that allowed gay people to serve in the military but only if they kept their orientation secret, 28 retired generals and admirals plan to...