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The former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, who is expected to make an entry next year into the Republican race for 2012, is facing politically devastating allegations about her past. A new book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, authored by Joe McGinniss, alleges that Palin used cocaine and marijuana, had a one-night stand with NBA star Glen Rice and had a long term affair with one of her husband's former business associates.

Groupon seeks to go public in October or November, people familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday, a week after the daily deals website put its IPO on hold for a few weeks as it waited to ride out global market turmoil.

Republican Bob Turner's victory in the special election for Anthony Weiner's New York congressional seat is being interpreted across the political spectrum as a possible rebuke to Democrats, particularly President Barack Obama.

Those redirected into the small town of Gander, Newfoundland return to thank residents for their kindness during the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

Poverty is on the rise in the U.S. -- something one would expect after the worst recession (2007-2009) since the Great Depression -- but the percentage is still stark: 15.1 percent of the nation is in poverty, in the richest nation on the face of the earth.

In U.S. politics, he who wins the verbal war often wins the political war, and with the aforementioned in mind, the Republicans are ahead.

A timeline of Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power and this his fall from power.

More Americans dropped below the poverty line last year amid a stalled economic recovery, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday.

Residents of Stallion Springs, Calif., residents were forced to evacuate on Monday as string of lightning-caused wildfires in the area, Capt. Joshua Valverde of the Gilroy Fire Department said.

A book containing the details of a series of 1964 interviews that former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave to JFK aide Arthur M. Schlesinger is being released on Wednesday.

So far, relatively few states have made progress in establishing the health insurance exchanges that represent a central piece of the federal health care reform bill.

Many New Yorkers are critical of the 9/11 Anniversary events and media coverage

On the morning of 9/11, The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman wrote a short blog posting titled The Years of Shame.

Top girls basketball prospect Tayshana Murphy was gunned down in her Harlem apartment on Sunday in an incident family members say is a case of mistaken identity. There has been no arrest as of Sunday.

The paleoanthropologist greets the recent discovery of a two-million-year-old fossil with the possibility that it might explicate the understanding of human evolution.

Murphy was shot to death as she tried to outrun a gunman on the fourth floor of the building she lived in. No arrests have been made in this incident as of Sunday afternoon.

With the nation reaching the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack, the United States has moved to a heightened state of alert: government officials have been trying to strike a balance between recommending caution and stirring up unnecessary fear.

President Barack Obama with former President George W. Bush commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack that took place in New York City, Washington, D.C. and in Shanksvillle, Pa. on Sept. 11, 2001.

The United States marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on New York, Washington, and Shanksville, Pa. Sunday with memorial services at the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon, and at a field in Pennsylvania -- all three of which are hallowed ground.

The discovery of a set of 2-million-year-old fossils could be a gamechanger in understanding human evolution, providing a key link in the process that led to modern human beings, scientists say.

The majority of Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters all believe that climate change is happening, according to a new poll. Only the Tea Party does not. What does this mean for Republican presidential candidates who want to do well both in the primaries and in the general election?

Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin are up for Weiner’s seat in Sept. 13 election.

Scientists have unearthed the fossil of an ancient creature, half-human, half-ape, a discovery that could give paleoanthropologists a missing link in the evolutionary history of the human being.

Beyond the rubble, debris, and destruction, exists several individuals who risk their lives daily and who made no exception on September 11, 2001, despite hazardous toxins floating around in the air.

The patients' names, account numbers, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges were posted on Student of Fortune, a commercial homework help Web site. The information was contained in a detailed spreadsheet, which the site posted on Sept. 9, 2010, to show customers how to create a bar chart from raw data.

Tropical Storm Lee's residual fury caused a renewed round of flooding across the northeast on Thursday, as rising waters forced the evacuations of some 120,000 people and killed at least six.

On Sept. 11, 2001, I was 11 years old. I can't say when exactly I realized how young that was to understand the enormity of the attacks. But 10 years removed, I see it. For me, the world isn't divided into before and after the attacks, because there is no before.

Stanford University’s hospital in California on Thursday has confirmed that a medical privacy breach has led to the online posting of electronic medical records of 20,000 emergency rooms patients.

Regulators are close to an agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to settle a case over disclosing their exposure to risky subprime loans, The New York Times reported on Thursday.