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Space officials from the U.S. have said that they are expecting a 6.5 -ton dead satellite to fall to Earth in almost a week.

Melvin Dwork lived with the a military discharge of undesirable for nearly 70 years for being a homosexual, before the Pentagon took a step - for the first time since the repeal of don't ask, don't tell - to award him an honorable discharge.

Worried about the declining number of the North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles, the United States declared the species as endangered on Friday.

Ex-governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin, has slammed Joe McGinniss, author of the upcoming The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, which alleges that Palin used cocaine and marijuana, had a one-night stand with basketball star Glen Rice and a long-term affair with her husband's business partner.

Pat Robertson’s latest comment on condoning divorce when spouse has Alzheimer’s is outrageous and violates the sanctity of marriage, feel many offended Christians.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will demand full membership for a Palestinian state in the United Nations, which may result in a diplomatic collision between it and Israel and the United States.

Two nude photos of Scarlett Johansson that appeared online on Wednesday, after her phone was hacked have been removed from PerezHilton.com, The Dirty.com and other website that posted the Not safe for work (NSFW) images.

Findings of the second major investigation by the U.S. government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting over $30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches.

General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers union negotiated into the night Friday to hammer out a new contract for 49,000 production workers in the first talks since the top U.S. automaker was saved by a government bailout.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc said in a statement that it reached a tentative agreement with its largest foreign affiliate Lehman Brothers International Europe , related to claims between the two.

The future of the music business is social, free -- and hopefully profitable.

The energy-thirsty United States is on the hunt for a game-changing energy source or energy usage technology -- and batteries and fuel cells are strong candidates. But their mass use could be 20 years away. Meanwhile, a conventional source may bridge that gap, or provide even more upside: natural gas.

Southern California unions and supermarket operators will negotiate through the weekend in a last-ditch bid to end an escalating Southern California supermarket labor dispute that could usher in the r1vegion's first grocery strike since 2003.

General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers union on Friday reached a proposed contract for almost 49,000 production workers that both sides said would create new U.S. factory jobs and include profit-sharing bonuses.

The Obama administration will tell Congress on Friday it plans to upgrade Taiwan's existing fleet of F-16 fighter jets, said sources involved in a deal likely to anger China while disappointing a Taiwan government that was seeking more advanced aircraft.

Stocks rose for a fifth day in a row on Friday and the S&P 500 scored its best week since early July on signs euro zone leaders were acting together to limit any damage from its sovereign debt crisis.

Countrywide Financial's lawsuit losses could compel parent Bank of America Corp to put up the unit on the bankruptcy block, Bloomberg reported citing four people with knowledge of the firm's strategy.

Director Gary Ross has finished principal photography on Lionsgate's highly anticipated movie, The Hunger Games, the studio announced on Thursday.

A soon-to-be-auctioned Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert reveals that the Fab Four took a firm stand in support of the era's civil rights movement, refusing to play before a segregated audience.

Consumer sentiment in the United States rose in early September, but Americans remained very gloomy about the future with their expectations for the economy falling to the lowest level since 1980.

Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal on Thursday of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill.