The entire staff of a Los Angeles elementary school where two teachers were arrested last week for lewd acts involving pupils will be replaced when the students return to class, the school district's...

A Norwegian court concluded Monday that Anders Behring Breivik -- the man charged with killing 77 people last July, an attack he claimed merited a medal of honor -- can legally be kept in custody unti...

The author of a new tell-all book claims she lost her virginity to President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, and that the affair lasted 18 months.

The Washington man who authorities believe killed his two sons and himself by setting fire to his house first gave toys and books to charity, sent multiple goodbye e-mails and doused the home with gas...

Moments after the energetic Madonna entertained fans during the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl, millions of television viewers got an emotional jolt back into reality.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is replacing the entire staff of Miramonte Elementary School following the arrest of two teachers on lewd conduct charges last week, Superintendent John Deasy t...

The two boys of a Utah man suspected in his wife's disappearance, and then of killing himself and his sons in an intentional fire, suffered from head and neck injuries, officials say.

The Senate voted Monday afternoon to approve a House-passed bill aimed at improving the nation’s aviation infrastructure and modernizing air traffic control systems.

The architects of the joint state-federal mortgage releief plan believe it would be better for homeowners to get a partial deal than nothing at all, according to sources close to the talks.

Researchers have found what happens to muscles when a masseur goes to work on them.

A golden retriever was the only thing that could reach a raging, disconnected boy.

One form of wickedness Charles Dickens decried still haunts us, proud and unrepentant: the lawyer.

Ron Paul’s political views are unusual, and, as a closer look at his life reveals, unusually constant, shaping not only his career in Congress but also how he has lived his life.

Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

ABC News - Found 1 hour agoCharles and Braden Powell are shown in these 2011 file photos Courtesy KOMO. Josh Powell tried to kill his two young sons with a hatchet before the flames of the fiery explo...

New York Times - Found 42 minutes agoStuart Elliott, The Times’s advertising columnist, is taking a running look at some of the evening’s Super Bowl commercials, along with other staff members who...

BBC - Found 10 hours agoObama told NBC that he would work to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon US President Barack Obama has placed stricter sanctions on Iran's government, including its central...

CNET News - Found 2 hours agoWatch out, Netflix. A new competitor will soon be entering the movie-streaming business. Verizon has announced it will team up with Coinstar, the parent of DVD rental comp...

CNN - Found 44 minutes agoWashington (CNN) -- Mitt Romney's front-running campaign on Monday took aim at trailing rival Rick Santorum, suggesting there is concern the conservative Santorum might be po...

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Listen to "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca by clicking the arrow on the audio player below:...

Did the first Obama re-election ad run during the Super Bowl? You might have missed it since the president wasn't even mentioned. It was a Chrysler ad, although even that wasn’t obvious. Instead, mo...

Madonna was upstaged at her own Super Bowl halftime show Sunday when guest performer M.I.A. extended her middle finger at the camera. When did we start calling this gesture “flipping the bird?”...

A portfolio of the winning entries to the 2012 Eustace Tilley Contest, an invitation to redefine The New Yorker’s presiding dandy.

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God took Dallas Wiens’s face from him on a clear November morning four years ago. If you ask Wiens, he will say that it was neither an accident nor a punishment; it was simply what had to happen...

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Spy novels embrace clichés—the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase—and “Assassin of Secrets,” published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope ont...

As the Free Syrian Army is establishing an identity in the conflict, another organization announces its presence in the opposition pantheon...

Animals, beer, women in bikinis, aging actors -- all the things that one would expect from Super Bowl commercials were present and accounted for this year. TIME grades the ads of Super Bowl XLVI...

At least three giant-telescope projects are now under way, and the biggest of them, the European Extremely Large Telescope, is finally breaking ground in Chile...

For this week's cover story, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who has been making high-profile busts on Wall Street, gave TIME a rare and extensive on-the-record...

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A bill to speed the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressiona...

The defeat of a peace plan at the U.N. and the closure of the American Embassy in Damascus represent the latest blows to attempts to use diplomacy to end the violence in Syria.

Stanley became a poster boy for tough loses, only to come back roaring a week later.

German chancellor Angela Merkel sounded exasperated saying she couldn't understand how additional delays would help.

While the barrage of negative ads is likely to be bad during the general election, the Republican primaries have seen a confluence of factors that have made for particularly fertile ground for nega...

Lawmakers in nine states are looking to scale back their own pensions by closing loopholes and lucrative retirement plans.

President Obama's re-election campaign is building on its historic 2008 effort by combining grass-roots organizing with the latest gadgetry.

As U.S. and Britain pull diplomats from Syria, dissidents say more needs to be done to end the killings.

President Obama is urging his top fundraisers to support a Democratic super political action committee which can spend unlimited amounts of cash ...

Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only ...

(02-06) 19:44 PST Graham, Wash. (AP) -- Josh Powell's boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make. He boxed up their books and toys and brought them to a charity. He carried heavy ca...

(02-06) 17:09 PST Carson City, Nev. (AP) -- Sports fans bet $93.9 million at Nevada casinos on Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, the most wagered in the...

A face-off between Occupy Oakland activists and members of a new group that formed to protest their tactics erupted Monday in front of Oakland City Hall, with both sides accusing each other of missing...

(02-06) 19:13 PST New York (AP) -- Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 28 points in his first career start, Steve Novak added a season-best 19, and the New York Knicks overcame the absence of Amare Stoude...

(02-06) 14:34 PST ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's highest court concluded Monday that a state law restricting assisted suicides violated free speech rights, a ruling that destroyed a long-running criminal c...

Rescue teams searched through matchstick rubble Saturday for thousands of people missing in flooded areas of northeastern Japan, beginning one of the most complex relief efforts in history.

Japanese authorities said Sunday that efforts to restart the cooling system at one of the reactors damaged by Friday's earthquake had failed, a major setback in the struggle to contain what has become...

Fast food giant said eating chicken item was less risky than petting the animal...

Back in May of last year, The Onion wrote a silly article satirizing the growing ridiculousness of the charges being levied against Planned Parenthood entitled “Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billi...

An ongoing study at the University of California, San Francisco will show that forcing a woman to view a sonogram often does not impact her decision on whether or not to have an abortion. Department o...

Newsday reports that Wendy Long, a former law clerk to tenther Justice Clarence Thomas who is best known for spearheading several inaccurate race baiting attacks against Justice Sonia Sotomayor during...

An assault by the Syrian army on the restive city of Homs enters its fourth day as Russia's foreign minister is due in Damascus for talks.

Rescue efforts continue for survivors of a 6.7 magnitude quake that shook the central Philippines on Monday, leaving at least 15 dead and 44 missing.

Five killer whales are named as plaintiffs in a court case arguing that they deserve the same constitutional protection from slavery as humans.

Thousands of Trendnet security camera webfeeds have been breached and shared on the internet, including live video from children's rooms.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says one of the country's most wanted paramilitary leaders, Martin Llanos, has been captured in Venezuela.

(AP) - In this photo taken Monday Jan. 9, 2012, Jan Owen, Gov. Jerry Brown's appointee to head the Department of Corporations, testifies before the Assembly Banking Committee in Sacramento, Calif. Con...

(AP) - Police and other officials from Washington state and Utah view charred rubble, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, at of the home where Josh Powell and his two sons were killed Sunday, in Graham, Wash., in w...

(AP) - Chief Buzz Nielsen, of the West Valley City, Utah, Police Department, pauses as he talks to reporters, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, near the home in Graham, Wash., where Josh Powell and his two sons w...

(AP) - Chief Buzz Nielsen, of the West Valley City, Utah, Police Department, talks to reporters, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, near the home in Graham, Wash., where Josh Powell and his two sons were killed Su...

(AP) - Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum casts a shadow as he speaks at The Cable Center in Denver, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)...

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I watched the Super Bowl online and considered myself lucky, because I was--for the most…...

How research in political psychology explains the fierce clashes between Republican and Democrats in our polarized system.

A provocative new report from the prestigious science journal Nature suggests that sugars are so unhealthy that they should be regulated.

Tuesday's contests could keep him in the race -- or persuade his supporters that he has no shot at the nomination.

Obama chose Osawatomie because it was there that Theodore Roosevelt took his first step toward abandoning the Republican Party to run as a Progressive, supposedly to battle the powers that had capture...

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