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The first pieces of debris picked up along the path of an Air France jetliner that went down in the Atlantic with 228 people on board turned out not to...

Sam Butera, a hard-swinging tenor saxophonist who formed a rowdy and successful onstage partnership with entertainers Louis Prima and Keely Smith in the 1950s, died June 3 at a hospital...

Here at the World Pork Expo, H1N1 influenza is many contradictory things: an unfolding disaster and a passing inconvenience, a cause of the pork industry's woes and an excuse for...

Fox lucked out because David Carradine is catatonic but not suicidal on Tuesday's episode of "Mental," which means the network can go ahead with the broadcast, as scheduled, in the...

No company -- or at least no company's products -- has been as celebrated in American popular culture as General Motors Corp. For generations, GM vehicles have inspired artistic metaphors...

Albert Toner, a White House aide in two Republican administrations nearly 20 years apart, died of congestive heart failure May 21 at his home in Brunswick, Maine. He was 91....

As more states take up the debate on same-sex marriage, some advocates of legalization are taking a very specific lesson from California, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

Iran's urban middle class is increasingly disenchanted with the current government and may turn out in larger numbers than four years ago to oppose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, voters said in...

For years, Russia has appeared to take a back seat in international efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. It urged diplomacy and resisted tougher...

The systems inside the body that create that an itchy feeling -- and then soothe it through scratching -- are very complex and have never been well understood. Some high-level...