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Three men accused of building Molotov cocktails were planning attacks at President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters and at the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel during this weekend's NATO Summit, prosecutors said.
WASHINGTON — There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America’s lead. And with 4 million jobs created in the United States in...
It was to have been the dawn of a new era, private companies launching into space and on to the International Space Station. The first such launch was set for before dawn this morning, and it came tantalizingly close. But the SpaceX rocket never got...
The subject of Tyler Coyner’s salutatorian speech to his Nevada high school classmates two years ago was how people can learn from their mistakes. Now he will have to go back and speak on the same subject, with himself as case in point. Coyner, who...
Nick Stahl, the 'Terminator 3' actor who was reported missing by his estranged wife nearly a week ago, reportedly sent an email to friends indicating that he would enter a 30-day rehab program.
An Ohio woman who was allegedly stabbed by her best friend as she sat in a running car, stepped on the gas before she died and ran over her alleged attacker’s two toddlers, killing one, police said. The bizarre chain of events began with an...
Six school buses taking some 200 middle school students to Six Flags crashed today in Newton County, Ga., leaving more than 50 people injured, state officials said.
Lifeguards in California are testing a robotic lifeguard named Emily that could speed up rescues and save lives. Once a lifeguard launches Emily in the water, the robot, which resembles a small motorboat, can speed across the water to a distressed but conscious swimmer to...
Howcast.com, a website of how-to videos, has just launched a new design, and reports its videos have now had a billion viewings.
The world's scariest toilet hangs over a 15 story unused elevator shaft in a Guadalajara, Mexico, penthouse.
If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight will seem to come early on Sunday afternoon, well before the sun actually sets.









