POLITICS

In what can be termed as a swift and unprecedented reversal on some of its time-tested conservative social codes, Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has reportedly revoked a flogging sentence handed to a Saudi woman for driving.

The Obama administration on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to back the centerpiece of Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul -- the requirement that all Americans have health insurance.

As part of the biodiversity program launched by the Airbus Corporate Foundation, a third group of sixteen Airbus volunteers has reached Kudimery village in Tamil Nadu state, Southern India.

Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton” to be released Oct. 4.

A decade-long study of 135,000 men found that those who did not have children had a higher risk of dying from heart disease than those who did, raising new questions over the links between fertility and overall health, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Student Republicans holding a bake sale at UC Berkeley to mock diversity efforts by state legislators were met on Tuesday by about 200 silent, black-clad protesters but little in the way of acrimony.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tuesday again rebuffed a growing chorus of Republican pleas for him to enter the 2012 White House race.

Newer antipsychotic drugs are often prescribed for conditions they aren't approved to treat, with questionable benefits, according to a study.

A new research review confirms that people with diabetes have a somewhat increased risk of colon cancer -- but the reasons for the connection, and what should be done about it, remain unclear.

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President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten the United States' future and restore its preeminence in education.

Jurors in the Michael Jackson death trial on Wednesday heard a frantic phone call Dr. Conrad Murray, the singer's personal doctor, made after the singer was found unresponsive.

The owner of the Majestic Dragon Chinese restaurant on Route 1 in Ipswich, Mass., was found dead inside his business late Tuesday morning, the Essex County District Attorney's Office confirmed Tuesday.

As the trial into the death of Michael Jackson enters its second day, 12 jurors are expected to hear testimony from the singer's assistant about the chaos that erupted the day he died.

Residents of the Philippines' capital city, Manila, began cleaning up after Typhoon Nesat brought widespread flooding that killed 21 people and left over two dozen missing.

Scientists have newly unveiled the mechanism of the temperature-size rule, in which certain animal species shrink in physical size as a result of hotter temperatures.

Tropical Storm Ophelia reformed in the Atlantic, joining Tropical Storm Philippe. Here's a look at their projected paths.

A jury of seven men and five women will decide whether Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter for administering a fatal dose of propofol, a surgical anesthesia, to Michael Jackson, 50, who died on June 25, 2009.

Taking saw palmetto, an herbal supplement used to decrease symptoms of enlarged prostates, may have no intended health effects, according to new research released Tuesday. Even taken in high doses, researchers found the dietary supplement long believed to aid men's prostate health was not any better than a placebo.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t actually protesting on Wall Street.

Typhoon Nesat's path drove it off of the Philippines and into the South China Sea on Wednesday, but many parts of the country are still unsafe.

The trial of Conrad Murray, the iconic pop singer Michael Jackson's personal doctor who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, started on Tuesday. The image of Jackson's dead body and a voice recording of his slurred speech before his death were released to the jury.

The trial of Conrad Murray, the iconic pop singer Michael Jackson's personal doctor who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, started on Tuesday. The image of Jackson's dead body and a voice recording of his slurred speech before his death were released to the jury.

Another haboob, or dust storm, swept across Arizona Tuesday afternoon near Phoenix, causing a multi-car accident on Interstate 10 that injured a dozen people. The dust storm prevented highway patrol officers from clearing the car crash that blocked eastbound lanes on I-10 near Picacho Park for several hours.

In the latest Shark Attack 2011, a 21-year-old Longboat Key, Florida man bitten by a shark over the weekend has reportedly undergone surgery and will likely return home within a week. But now the man and his actions that apparently led to the shark attack is now being attacked by PETA, organization for the ethical treatment of animals said.

Indiana state police Tuesday said that the man who killed five persons in a southeast Indiana shooting rampage over the weekend was still at large.

A 14-year-old Phoenix boy was arrested by sheriff's deputies on Tuesday for threats made over the Internet to go on a killing spree and then commit suicide at his former middle school, authorities said.

Images of Michael Jackson lying dead in a hospital and rehearsing the day before his death, along with recollections of the singer as a troubled lost boy, made for a heart-wrenching opening on Tuesday to the manslaughter trial of the doctor hired to care for him.

The illegal gill net set in Texas water by Mexican fisherman has killed at least 3,000 juvenile sharks along the South Texas Gulf Coast, Texas authorities said.