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Carl Baker, who was director of the National Cancer Institute during the United States' "war on cancer" in the early 1970s, has died. He was 88. Dr. Baker, who died...

It's an older episode of "The Office," the one where Stanley goes berserk and Pam wears her ugly glasses and Darryl tells Michael he belongs to a gang called "the...

For more than 150 years, Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch has been rumored to carry a secret message, supposedly written by an Irish immigrant and watchmaker named Jonathan Dillon. Dillon, working...

An agency under the director of national intelligence is seeking to develop an automated computer program that could process millions of feet of videotape, such as surveillance-camera data from countries...

The world is falling into the first global recession since World War II as the crisis that started in the United States engulfs once-booming developing nations, confronting them with massive...

It's easy to just toss on whatever black-and-white get-up the tux rental salesman offers, but why be one more identical penguin in a rookery of thousands? It may be a...

Santos Cardona, an Army dog handler involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, was determined to continue fighting overseas to erase the stain of his assault...

A car bomb exploded in a crowded livestock market south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and injuring scores of others, police said. The attackers parked the...

Reacting swiftly to the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the government of Sudan on Wednesday expelled at least 10 foreign aid...

Iranian leaders said Wednesday that President Barack Obama follows the "crooked ways" of his predecessor, repeated earlier warnings that Iranian missiles could reach Israel and reiterated that the Holocaust was...