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Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped and held captive for 18 years, has sued the federal government for failing to supervise her captor, Phillip Garrido, who was on federal parole at the time of her kidnapping.

Researchers have claimed that they have been able to record particles traveling at speeds faster than that of light, throwing open once again the debate on the possibility of time travel.

Big, brash new singing contest The X Factor was thumped on its U.S. TV debut, with American audiences preferring comedy Modern Family in their millions, ratings figures showed on Thursday.

Tabloid rumors are being taken more seriously than usual

Whitman, who failed to become Republican Governor of California last year after spending tens of millions of dollars in the campaign, is a highly controversial choice to lead the troubled HP.

While New York City as a whole has endured the recession better than the rest of the country, it has also seen a surge in poverty that outpaced the rest of the nation, according to U.S. Census data.

A judge received a seven-page letter from Jamaican drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke asking for leniency after pleading guilty to racketeering and assault charges in August.

The state of Georgia Wednesday night executed Troy Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer 22 years ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

Young adults are gaining health insurance faster than ever, mostly due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Jamey Rodemeyer, a gay teen victim of bullying, committed suicide this weekend, according to his parents, days before the first ever DOE national summit against bullying.

Stocks plunged late Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced it will sell $400 billion worth of short-maturity bonds and reinvest in bonds with maturities of six to 30 years in the coming year. The program has been commonly referred to as Operation Twist.

If the rumors hold true, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to be a single woman without a shot at the presidency.

Casualties in the competitive wars against Apple are starting to add up -- so much so that sometimes it barely seems like a battle at all.

Multiple Republican-led states have passed new election laws that severely hamper certain groups' ability to vote, a move that many Democrats see as a move to weaken their base ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

The Obama administration is constructing a network of drone strike bases in Africa and the Arabian peninsula as its broadening campaign against Al Qaeda affiliates reaches increasingly into Yemen and Somalia.

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) principal dancer David Hallberg will join Russian ballet company Bolshoi Ballet for the 2011-2012 season.

The relationship between President Obama and Warren Buffett has grown as the president is calling on wealthy Americans to pay more in taxes to solve deficit problems.

Seventeen people suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning when scaffolding collapsed and hit a city bus in Harlem, the New York Fire Department said.

A prominent dolphin researcher is probing whether dolphins are capable of starting conversations.

More than a third of young American families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data that offers the latest indicator of spreading poverty in America.

Seven scientists are on trial in Italy for manslaughter charges relating to more than 300 deaths from an 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.

Five arrests were made on the third day of Occupy Wall Street protests in New York's Financial District.

A water main on New York's Upper West Side Monday has turned Central Park West into a river, while shutting down parts of the city's subway service.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 remains the most anticipated smartphone in the U.S. market and it has been the source of relentless rumors over the past few months, which set the smartphone for release in October.

President Barack Obama will once-again try to right the nation's fiscal ship of state by proposing a new tax levy for U.S. taxpayers whose income exceeds $1 million per year. Congressional Republicans have already said they're opposed to the levy, but it remains to be seen whether that latter view will hold amid a public that wants upper-income groups to pay more in taxes.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute for knowingly exposing black children to lead paint and dust during a 1990s study.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett misses the mark more often than most people realize, but his view, shared by President Barack Obama, that the richest Americans should be taxed at the same rate as middle-class Americans, is on the money.

President Barack Obama will propose a new minimum tax rate for U.S. taxpayers who make more than $1 million to help lower the nation's $1.5 trillion long-term debt, according to media reports. This plan will be adopted from a suggestion made by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.