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Tired of spending a fortune on expensive hair-care products? Maybe it is time to re-evaluate your diet. Eating more of certain foods can provide your body with the vitamins and...

Step away from the soda Looking to slim down for bathing suit season? Put down that soda! Cutting back on calories from sugary beverages can go a long way to...

Philip D. Curtin, a historian of the African slave trade who was instrumental in changing the way schools teach the subject, died June 4 in West Chester, Pa., of pneumonia....

In farm towns across the hot, fertile state of Michoacan, famous for its mangos and marijuana, residents are used to seeing military patrols rumbling through their streets. But until late...

The Obama administration on Friday petitioned a full federal appeals court to hear its argument that it should not have to reveal details of the CIA's "black site" prison program,...

A pivotal presidential election in Iran ended in confusion and confrontation early Saturday morning as both sides claimed victory and plainclothes officers fired tear gas to disperse a cheering crowd...

When you have an itch, you scratch it, right? Sounds simple. But the systems inside the body that create that itchy feeling -- and then soothe it through scratching --...

What kind of company would try to start a new search engine now? Years after most people have grown accustomed to plugging queries into Google or, less often, Yahoo, anybody...

Ernest May, a Harvard historian who became a senior adviser to the 9/11 Commission that analyzed the 2001 terrorist attacks in Washington and New York, died June 1 at a...

Charitable giving in the United States fell by 2 percent last year, the largest year-over-year drop and only the second decline since the Giving USA Foundation began tracking American philanthropy...