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U.S. judo competitor Nick Delpopolo was disqualified at the 2012 Olympics in London after the 23-year-old reportedly tested positive for THC, a substance found in marijuana, during a drug test.

After rounding up over 6,000 suspected illegal immigrants over the weekend, Greek authorities announced that 1,600 will be deported.

Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP), the largest track network in the U.S., reached its highest stock price ever on Friday as it shifts its business to natural gas producers as coal shipments drop.

Leave it to Fox News to achieve the impossible. On Sunday, the conservative spinsters found cause to lament the decline of American patriotism after Douglas' victory last week in which she became the first African American in history to win all-around gymnastics gold.

Despite its relative isolation, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula plays a huge role in one of the overarching conflicts of the twentieth century.

Adirondack State Park, the largest state-protected preserve in the contiguous United States, grew by 69,000 acres Sunday in the greatest single addition to the park in over a century.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has supported Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegation that Mitt Romney avoided paying taxes for years, giving her imprimatur to a charge that Romney's campaign has dismissed as baseless slander.

Globalization -- basically, free markets and the transfer of jobs to lower-cost labor/production centers -- has lifted more than 1 billion people out of poverty. However, globalization, at least initially, also contains a contradiction that, in time, could undermine not only the uniting of markets, but trade and global GDP growth itself.

Watch live coverage as the United States takes on Canada in the semifinals of the Olympic women's soccer tournament, plus a full preview and prediction.

Sanya Richards-Ross, the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Aaron Ross, took home the gold medal in the 400-meters at the Olympics in London. Richards-Ross's win comes four years after an emotional loss left her unsatisfied with an Olympic bronze medal.

Obama will be in Connecticut on Monday on a fundraising jaunt that features two tiers of backers.

This is the second time in three months that a patient suffering from bone marrow failure was successfully treated with its PLX cells, Israeli company Pluristem Therapeutics said on Monday.

The Obama administration is starting to launch an initiative that could protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants from deportation, announcing on Friday that it would start accepting applications in mid-August.

"That turban has tragically marked us as automatically suspect, perpetually foreign and potentially terrorists."

"I am from today a soldier in this blessed revolution," says former premier from Jordan on Monday.

Condemning the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, in which a gunman killed six and critically injured another three on Sunday, hundreds of Sikhs protested in India on Monday.

The FBI, probing the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, in which a gunman killed six and critically injured three others on Sunday, hinted that it could be an act of domestic terrorism. Meanwhile, the Sikh community in the U.S calls it a crime of "hate and ignorance."

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a mixed open Monday as investor worries about the weakening economy were alleviated following the recovery in the jobs data in July.

Asian stock markets rallied Monday as better-than-expected jobs data from the U.S. and optimism at European action to boost the faltering regional economy buoyed sentiment.

Crude oil futures declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging the most in a month in the previous session on upbeat U.S. jobs data.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt proved it once again that no one can touch the finishing line faster than him. The world record holder and the defending Olympic champion clinched the gold medal in the 2012 London Olympic Games Sunday and retained the men's 100m title with an electrifying performance.