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The state's House of Representatives passed legislation would make possession of a half ounce or less of marijuana subject to a fine, rather than criminal charges.

A famous letter about Jews written by a young Adolf Hitler has been put on display in New York’s Museum of Tolerance.

Representative Anthony Weiner refused to step down on Tuesday even as friends deserted him and political foes bayed for his blood. Responding to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s statement that Weiner should quit, the disgraced politician said: “He’s (Cantor) entitled to his viewpoint ... I’m not resigning, no.” But how long can he hang on to the public office after he squandered away people's trust by denying that he sent the lewd photograph to a woman's Twitter account?

Actress settles claim with Murdoch's News Corporation tabloid

The 33-year leader of the Gulfi nation, currently hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, is suffering from bleeding in his skull and burns on 40 percent of his body, according to one Time report.

Jacobs' new collection absent of a theme on purpose.

Fox News television host Glenn Beck, with his show set to end June 30, has plans to continue his talk show online as part of a new Internet network, GBTV.

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Making the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs said iOS 5 is a major release, and that it will have more than 200 new features. Apart from the yet to arrive iPhone 5, the all new iOS 5 will start being seen in devices like iPhone 3GS and 4, iPad and iPad 2, and iPod touch 3 and 4, from this fall. Some dashing features it will have are the new messaging service iMessage, integrated Twitter, PC-free us...

Todd Carmichael to Duane Sorenson: Just don't lie, dude

In honor of today's WWDC, here's a list of the best apps to stay fashion savvy on the go.

At least 270 migrants from Libya heading towards Europe may have drowned after their ship sank off the coast of Tunisia in a storm, authorities said on Thursday.

The strenuous P90X fitness program favored by celebrities is nothing new ... but it works.

Duane Sorenson and Alexander Panos tell the New York Times that Stumptown has not been sold; Sorenson runs the show

The slowdown has begun. The economy has started to sputter and unemployment claims have tipped 400,000 for the last seven weeks. Manufacturing is cooling, the housing market is struggling and consumers are keeping a close eye on spending, meaning the U.S. economy might be on a slower path to full health than expected.

The New York Times announced that current managing editor Jill Abramson will be the newspaper's next executive editor. Bill Keller, the executive editor for the last eight years, resigned from his post and will write a weekly column for a new Sunday opinion section.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will formally announce his candidacy today with a speech that will largely attack the failures of what he dubs the Obama economy.

On Day 3 of her One Nation bus tour, Sarah Palin and Company, made a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield and cemetery Tuesday morning.

Unrest among ethnic Mongolians in northern China is deepening, a week after the accidental killing of two Mongolians in separate incidents have sparked unprecedented protests.

Although Harold Camping's predictions failed and the Rapture did not occur, a real life Ark, almost as long as Noah's, is close to completion at Dordrecht, Netherlands.

A trailer for The Girl With the Dragoon Tatoo has been released to the web, and specifically, YouTube.

Sarah Palin kicked off her 'One Nation' tour in Washington D.C. on Sunday, riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to honor U.S. veterans, marking the start of a short tour that will take her to New England as speculation mounts about her willingness to mount a presidential run.

The equivocal, baby step rhetoric of the SNB - together with Swiss exporters' reluctance to give up the benefits of a weaker Swiss Franc - suggest that we shouldn't expect Switzerland either to race away from the bottom just yet.

Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and singer whose best known work is perhaps The Revolution Will Not be Televised, died at the age of 62 on Friday, according to reports.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has been linked to a cyber-attack on a firm which supplies coded security coupons to users, said a report in The New York Times.

The extension passed but the question lingers: What were they trying to warn us about?

Osama bin Laden and his aides wanted to make a deal with the Pakistani government under which al-Qaeda would not attack Pakistani targets in exchange for a safe haven in the country, according to a report in The New York Times.

Lindsay Lohan is making the most out of house arrest with the use of 'art.'

Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann said Thursday she plans to announce her decision on whether to join the Republican presidential race in June - during a visit to her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, the New York Times reported.