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In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had...

For about 400 people in western Kenya who can call the next U.S. president part of the family, the business of being an Obama has a whole new meaning. The...

In a growing investigation into corruption at top levels of Mexican law enforcement, authorities said Friday that the nation's former anti-drug chief had accepted $450,000 to tip off traffickers. Noe...

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the pioneering cardiovascular surgeon who performed the first U.S. heart transplant, developed a balloon-pumping device that has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and developed mechanical heart-assist...

At one point on the road he's still on, leading from "American Idol" to the iPod promotions and summer shed tours of actual rock stardom, David Cook stopped for a...

Stu Rasmussen promised a new administration if he was elected, and he's as good as his word: Silverton residents not only are getting a new mayor, they're also getting a...

First Melyssa Cowburn's 5-year-old child tried to bash in a baby's head with a hammer. Then he set the shower curtain on fire. The next day he plugged all the...

One was a nice Jewish girl, born on Groundhog Day 1955. Bryna Kane's parents had survived the Holocaust. She was expected to excel, and she did, studying biochemistry and then...

Irving Brecher, a comedy writer whose career in radio, television and the movies included writing two Marx Brothers comedies, co-writing the Judy Garland musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" and...

BAGHDAD -- An attempt to open debate on a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay in Iraq through 2011 degenerated into a yelling match in parliament Wednesday, casting doubt on...