I come from a small-ish town in Oklahoma where we've never met a vegetable we couldn't fry and the only things more super-sized than our portions are the huge church complexes that alternate with fast...

Brent King says it still "takes my breath away" to talk about his daughter in the same sentence as the man who killed her.

In recent weeks, a series of CNN articles have appeared purporting to get to the bottom of male infidelity. "Men More Likely to Cheat on Women With Bigger Paychecks," one headline informs us; yet in t...

Hurricane Earl prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as residents scrambled to ready themselves ahead of its arrival.

It was the fifth game of the 2009 Ohio State University football season, and offensive lineman Andy Miller cheered as the Buckeyes sprinted past the Indiana Hoosiers, 33-14, the fourth win of the year...

A mile-long sheen is now visible where an offshore petroleum platform exploded and burned Thursday off Louisiana, the Coast Guard said. Gulf of Mexico - Oil spill - Oil platform - Environmen...

Hurricane Earl's winds weakened to 125 mph on Thursday but the Category 3 storm was still blowing toward North Carolina. National Hurricane Center - Tropical cyclone - Saffir–Simpson Hur...

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The plunge in interest rates has put the nation’s public and private pension funds badly underfunded, leaving pension fund managers with a giant hole to fill. Pension - Business - Investin...

The Israeli and Palestinian leaders conclude a first set of direct peace talks and plan a second set Sept. 14-15, U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell says. Middle East - Israel - Pa...

Many women these days want to showcase their small chests, not pad them out. Retailers are listening.

Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.

Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.

The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.

The value-added formula to evaluate teachers is gaining acceptance, and critics, across America.

New York Times - Found 1 hour agoWASHINGTON Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton formally reopened direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on Thursday, acknowledging that we...

New York Times - Found 3 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on an unannounced visit Thursday for meetings with American military commanders and President Ha...

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CNN - Found 1 hour agoCNN's Rob Marciano reports on Hurricane Earl as it moves through the Atlantic and nears the Eastern Seaboard. Enormous Earl closing in on East Coast...

Hollywood - Found 4 hours agoHilton and her current boyfriend Cy Waits were driving through Las Vegas on Friday night (27Aug10) when their car was pulled over by police, who searched the vehicle after...

In a speech to the nation, President Barack Obama says whether you supported the war in Iraq or opposed it, it's time to turn the page.

After the public spectacle surrounding the arrest and trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the jury's decision to hang on 23 of 24 charges has largely been viewed as an embarrassing failure...

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In this week’s magazine, Amy Wilentz writes about the upcoming Presidential election in Haiti, where a million people are still homeless or semi-homeless after the January 12th earthquake. The d...

Last spring, according to a Pew Research Center poll, eighty-four per cent of Pakistanis were dissatisfied with the way things were going in their country. Inflation, terrorist bombings, and American...

Let’s say you hear James Brown records as a teen-ager, as Gabriel Roth, the leader of the band Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, did. You may decide that there is no better template for making a...

We are at or near that approximate line where a stiff breeze becomes or lapses from a considerable wind, and I like it here, the chimney smokes right-angled from west to east but still for brief...

When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public face of American science and the keeper of the world’s deepest biom...

James Lee's rants were unified by one familiar theme: the exaggerated belief in a media institution's ability to single-handedly create, and impose solutions upon, social problems.

Israelis feel prosperous, secure -- and disengaged from the peace process with the Palestinians. Is that wise?

According to a new study, once the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, 95% of American workers will have health insurance through their jobs, up from 85% today.

In an essay exclusively adapted for TIME from his new memoir, Britain's former Prime Minister reflects on the U.S. Presidents he has known and worked with -- and on their country...

What if we gave people real choices and real consequences and let them make decisions?

Employers keep shifting a larger share of health costs to their employees. Higher premiums, deductibles and copayments are making health insurance less affordable for people who get coverage at work.

The Justice Department says Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is standing in the way of its investigation by refusing to turn over arrest records and other materials that could show whether he violat...

Four members of the environmental group had clung to the rig for two days to protest drilling in the Arctic. They were forced to abandon their protest because of a storm. The rig is owned by Edinburgh...

An oil rig, 90 miles off the Gulf of Mexico, is on fire, the U.S. Coast Guard reports. Thirteen people on board the rig are accounted for. An explosion was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. ET.

The rig, about 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay along the central Louisana coast, exploded about 9:30 am. CDT Thursday.A mile-long oil sheen was spreading from the platform, the Coast Guard reported.

Hurricane Earl is a powerful Category 3 storm packing 125-mph winds, and coastal residents in its path need to take action now, FEMA Administrator ...

As Middle East peace talks begin anew in Washington, President Obama warns, "This moment of opportunity may not soon come again."...

The alliance between George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair was tight, but Blair says that may never have occurred without 9/11. ...

Experts say the Oscar winner with Stage IV throat cancer is in for a tough haul, but otherwise his prognosis is excellent.

A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 jolted the East Bay just after 9:30 a.m. today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was centered near Richmond at a depth of 4 miles, the agency said. It s...

The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The site of the explosion is west...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina agreed on one thing Wednesday during their hourlong televised debate at St. Mary's College in Moraga: California voters have...

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U.S. immigration officials said Wednesday they will consider San Francisco's request to opt out of the controversial Secure Communities program that makes it easier for federal authorities to track do...

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Treacherous winds, driving rain force thousands of vacationers to evacuate parts of Outer Banks. Outer Banks - Hurricane Earl - North Carolina - United States - Coastal...

Secretary of State Clinton urges patience and leadership from Israeli and Palestinian leaders. President of the United States - Middle East - Barack Obama - Warfare and Conflict - Israel-Palest...

Nyjer Morgan charged a Marlins pitcher on the mound, an action that clear both benches and led to ejections. Florida Marlins - Pitcher - sport - Morgan - Chris Volstad...

Coast Guard responding to reports of people in water...

The headline linked to a column by Ann Coulter titled, "Obama is not a Muslim." This is the same Coulter who repeatedly promoted the lie -- three years after it had been debunked by numerous news orga...

Politics Daily: Economics weigh in on the impact of the stimulus package...

Sarah is 43, single and celibate — and determined to remain so. Each night she fastens a wire chain, known as a cilice, around her upper thigh. The device has sharp prongs that dig into the skin an...

The US Secretary of State tells the Israeli and Palestinian leaders they have the "opportunity to end this conflict" as direct peace talks begin.

An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill.

BBC Sport understands that police investigating alleged corruption involving three Pakistani cricketers believe that video evidence crucial to the case is authentic, despite fresh claims to the contra...

David Cameron supports William Hague "100%" following speculation about the foreign secretary's private life, the PM's spokeswoman says.

The Scottish government says drinkers should be charged a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol as part of efforts to cut consumption.

(AP) - Senior hurricane specialist Lixion Avila studies data on Hurricane Earl at the National Hurricane Center in Miami Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina to Maine is o...

(Reuters) - Children from Nairobi's Kibera slums scavenge through a garbage dump February 17, 2009. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA)...

(Canadian Press) - This Aug. 23, 2010 photo shows chicken breasts with cider, spices and caramelized apples. With apples speaking to the desire for a sweet year to come this dish is both meaningful an...

(AP) - This July 8, 2010 photo shows John Pfeiffer as he posts photos of models on a board during a casting session for the Fashion's Night Out runway show in New York. Fashion's Night Out is a nation...

(AP) - Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell briefs reporters at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Palestinian P...

Firefighters running from California to New York...

Harry Smith gets answers to viewers questions about digital overload from Dr. Jennifer Hartstein, Dr. Jennifer Ashton and lawyer, Jack Ford.

Dans le zapping de ce 2 septembre, l’ouverture des négociations israélo-palestiniennes, la rentrée des classes, et des bulles de savon gigantesques.

Hurricane Earl is packing winds near 140 mph as it blows its way toward North Carolina on Thursday. The Eastern Seaboard up to Maine is on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, ga...

The three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of spot-betting allegations were "set up", the country’s top diplomat in London told Sky's Ian Dovaston.

The bailout bill has passed. But how will we know if it succeeds? By Robert E. Litan So, will it work? Now that Congress has passed the bailout bill -- an unprecedented riverboat gambl...

Why should Sarah Palin benefit from the fact that the media expects her to do poorly against Joe Biden? Low expectations might be the secret to happiness, but are they the secret to win...

Somali pirates hijacked a Ukrainian vessel carrying tanks and other military hardware in the Gulf of Aden. U.S. Navy warships have surrounded them. This year alone, pirates have attacke...

Barack Obama and John McCain both think they can win the election by accusing the other of not understanding America. In Friday's debate John McCain said six times that Barack Obama do...

The bailout crashed, and so did democracy. Democracy is not perfect, and one of its many imperfections is that voters tend to be ignorant. I don't mean to be insulting. There are, after...

Writing at the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker offers some frank insights about Glenn Beck: . . .

Writing at the New York Review of Books blog page, Princeton professor Perry Link enumerates the seven deadly secrets that China’s octogenarians want to keep from the public at all cost. It makes an...

As a young lawyer, Obama represented a whistleblower; as a presidential candidate, he pledged to “strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of autho...

(Sept. 2) -- Initial Reactions from Twitter in response to the Vermilion Bay Oil Platform Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Sept. 2) -- Vermilion Bay is the site of today's oil platform explosion, which was reported this morning by a helicopter company flying over the area. The offshore rig, owned by Mariner Energy, is ac...

(Sept. 2) -- The attacker who held three employees hostage at the Discovery Communications headquarters before being shot to death by police told an NBC producer during the siege that he had spent abo...

(Sept. 2) -- BP plans to carefully remove the cap from its crippled oil well today in preparation for a procedure it hopes will plug the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all. That proce...

(Sept. 2) -- Forecasters know Hurricane Earl is a powerful and dangerous Category 4 storm, but they don't know its precise track as it churns ever closer toward the Atlantic Coast today on a path they...

With four months left in the year, 2010 is already the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 321 have been killed so far (out of 485 total coalition deaths), compared with 313 deaths in a...

Muslim men and women across the world are currently observing Ramadan, a month long celebration of self-purification and restraint. During Ramadan, the Muslim community fast, abstaining from food, dri...

Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane...

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photograp...

Between April 20 and July 15, 2010, a generally accepted estimate of nearly 5 million barrels (200 million gallons) of crude oil emerged from the wellhead drilled into the seafloor by BP from the now-...