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Another first on the Supreme Court! If Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed, she'll be its first ... bachelorette. The 54-year-old judge has been single since 1983, when her college marriage ended...

The big appeal of replacing your old windows with new energy-efficient ones is that they might save you money. A federal tax credit of up to $1,500 adds to the...

A longtime Hamas leader accused of plotting deadly attacks in Israel was killed during an exchange of gunfire Thursday after Israeli forces surrounded his West Bank home, officials said. The...

It may not have made a big splash on network news or in print, but for real estate it was the equivalent of a congressional declaration of war -- a...

Scientists have created the first genetically modified monkeys that can pass their new genetic attributes to their offspring, an advance designed to give researchers new tools for studying human disease...

Fussy film historians will tell you that the heyday of the movie poster is long gone. In the 1930s, they were often hand-drawn works of art -- precious cargo that...

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has dealt a blow to cigarette-makers by upholding a landmark 2006 legal ruling that the companies lied for decades about the dangers of smoking....

Robert Furchgott, an American scientist who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover how a gas molecule regulates some of the most important functions of the body, died May 19...

Jon and Kate Gosselin came back to television Monday for a fifth season of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" (TLC at 8 p.m.), trying like crazy to keep up appearances...

Jon and Kate Gosselin came back to television Monday for a fifth season of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" (TLC at 8 p.m.), trying like crazy to keep up appearances...