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An Obama administration appointee at the U.S. Energy Department pressed White House analysts to sign off on a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra LLC even though his wife worked for the failed solar-panel maker's law firm.

Writer insists Jobs was not a big believer in nostalgia

Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers vote against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men.

Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers voting against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men. Although the vote has drawn criticism from health groups worried that the move will increase deaths in men at risk of the cancer.

The Big East suffered another blow on Thursday when the Big 12 officially extended an invite to TCU, which the Texas school is expected to accept.

Steve Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer initially believed to be treatable

Amidst an outpouring of social media tributes to Steve Jobs on Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Apple co-founder's death, so have donations toward awareness and research of his longtime battle with pancreatic cancer.

The Big East is now losing teams that aren’t even a part of its conference yet. TCU going to the Big 12 became the latest move in more than a year of college football’s conference reshuffle and realignment.

Volunteers in the embattled city of Sirte are currently caring for 500 ostriches once owned by the Libyan dictator that were left without food or water when loyalists fled the city.

Abdulfattah John Jandali -- Steve Jobs' biological father -- had no comment Wednesday on the untimely death of his world-famous son, with whom he had no relationship.

While Steve Jobs' death in 2011 is shocking, it wasn't unexpected. Jobs had battled cancer for years. He had an operation in 2004, a liver transplant in 2009, and took three leaves of absence before he permanatly resigned as the CEO of Apple in August 2011.

Ari Weinstein and Ben Feldman, age 17, were able to capitalize on the 'iPhone5' hype with their live coverage of the Apple keynote event on Oct. 4. The boys got 259,337 hits.

Sesame Street debuts its new hungry, poverty-stricken Muppet Lily on Sunday's primetime special Growing Hope Against Hunger.

A five percent tax surcharge on millionaires and billionaires would replace more unpalatable provisions President Barack Obama suggested to pay for his $447 billion jobs package.

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., criticized the influence anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has on Washington.

Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter derided the Occupy Wall Street protesters by saying the movement is simliar to the Nazis' rise to power in Germany in the 1930s, and that the protesters also represent the start of totalitarianism in the U.S.

Now that Chris Christie's flirtation with the Republican presidential race has ended in rejection, polling suggests that Mitt Romney's steady courtship of potential voters may ultimately render him the nomination.

The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has now become something of a Mecca for marine scientists, particularly those who study sharks. On Tuesday, the island nation passed a bill creating the world's largest sanctuary for sharks.

New Apple CEO Tim Cook began his first product launch on Tuesday at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino by trumpeting all of his company’s successes, but after almost an hour of self-promotion and smaller updates, Apple unveiled its latest iPhone, the 4S.

Seven NYC restaurants are awarded the top honor of three Michelin Stars

Investigators from the Government Accountability Office report that thousands of Medicare beneficiaries are doctor shopping to receive huge bulks of prescription drugs.

A large ozone hole over the Arctic may have likely exposed people living in Russia, parts of Greenland and Norway to high ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

A breast cancer survivor said she was subjected to a humiliating public pat down at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport even though she offered to produce documentation on her medical implants.

A series of emails released by the House Of Representative's Energy and Commerce committee show that Solyndra investors as well as White House officials questioned Solyndra's financial stability as early as December 2009.

With Apple's next iPhone announcement just a day away, experts and analysts make their last-minute predictions on what the world can expect to see come out of Cupertino tomorrow.

GOP hopeful Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, doubts Christie's appeal among conservative voters.

A young boy is in a coma after a producer for Anderson, Cooper's new daytime show, urged the teen to film the crazy stuff you do.

The increasing emission of carbon dioxide along with the warming planet is making the scientists and experts worry about the future of forests as per a report in New York Times.

Speculation that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will enter the U.S. presidential race has led to a feverish debate about the possibility of having the fattest man in the White House since the corpulent William Howard Taft squeezed behind the big desk in the Oval Office.