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National Guard soldiers on Tuesday began airlifting food and water to about a dozen Vermont towns that have been cut off by the raging waters that remained after Hurricane Irene. At least three deaths have been reported in that state, which was somewhat reshaped by the flood waters from Irene.

Police have confirmed that they arrested an uncle of U.S. President Barack Obama in Massachusetts last week for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Onyango Obama, 67, entered a not guilty plea on Friday and was being held without bail on a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to yield the right of way.

After Jia Lin divorced twenty years ago, his wife got both house and son, leaving the Beijing cook with little more than a fresh start.

National Guard and firefighters rescued hundreds people from record flooding in New Jersey on Tuesday and Vermont planned to airlift food and water to inland towns cut off by Hurricane Irene after its paralyzing rampage through the U.S. northeast.

Film financier David Bergstein is suing his former attorney Teri Zimon for $50 million, alleging that she helped encourage his creditors to drive him into involuntary bankruptcy.

Metro-North Railroad to and from New York City resumed full service on its major lines, while some remain indefinitely suspended.

The recovery from Hurricane Irene in the U.S. has only just begun, but another tropical disturbance, Tropical Storm Katia, is slowly strengthening over the eastern tropical Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

A judge dismissed a case against Illinois mom Kimberly Garrity, who was slammed with a $50,000 lawsuit from her two children who claimed they suffered from emotional distress as the result of her bad mothering.

The Hurricane Irene death toll continues to rise, including a Holocaust survivor who was found dead in floodwaters on Sunday in a Catskills cottage.

Connecticut's utilities, maintenance, and emergency crews continued to play catch-up Tuesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, reducing the number of customers without power to about 420,000.

The federal government will distribute emergency supplies across Vermont to people and communities still feeling the effects of Hurricane Irene, which is threatening to become the state's worst natural disaster since the historic 1927 flood.

Firefighters battling a forest fire near Yosemite National Park since last week have manage to encircle about a third of the blaze, but a main road into the park remained cut off, officials said on Monday.

Massive flooding and widespread power outages continued to bother Vermont on Tuesday after Hurricane Irene hit the small Northern state on Sunday.

Scientists are working on compact nuclear power plants based on fission power technology for settlements on the Moon and Mars.

Couples who live together before marriage are at significantly greater risk of divorce, a recent report says.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may leave the International Space Station (ISS) unmanned after the failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket last week is forcing the agency to consider its options.

China's state-run news agency demanded on Tuesday that Internet companies, regulators and police do more to cleanse websites of toxic rumors, adding to signs that the ruling Communist Party wants to tame the explosion of freewheeling microblogs.

Many Chinese have made their own helicopter, submarines, cannon, robot and more, using recycled materials. Press “Start” to view some of the top homemade gears “Made in China.

Lest anyone believe that SAG and AFTRA have lost interest in their latest merger go-around, the two labor groups put out an announcement Monday, touting the fact that their respective merger task forces had gotten together over the weekend for a videoconference bi-coastal chit-chat, despite severe storm conditions in New York.

The jailed polygamist leader is said to be in a critical condition at a Texas hospital and may not survive.

The polygamist cult leader was rushed to a hospital Sunday after several days on a hunger strike at a Texas prison.

A California mom accused of dropping her 7-month-old baby to his death from a hospital parking structure was due in court on Monday for her arraignment on murder charges.

Irene ran through 10 states on the East Coast, damaging several communities, including some in New York and New Jersey, with winds and floods. It is believed that Irene claimed 25 lives as of Monday and caused between $7 billion and $13 billion in damages.

Vermont Monday continued to fight back from what is rapidly becoming the state's worst natural disaster since the historic 1927 flood. Dozens if not hundreds of people remain stranded, provisions for food and water are dwindling in certain areas, and swollen rivers continued to be a threat.

Lapoleon Colbert gets 32 years in prison.

After Hurricane Irene forced a massive shutdown of mass transit in New York City, subway service has been fully restored citywide, NBC New York reported.

Warren Jeffs, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints leader who was convicted on charges of sexually assaulting two underage girls, is near death, an undisclosed source told ABC News. Jeffs is currently serving a life in prison with no possibility of parole for 45 years sentence.

New Jersey Transit's trains remain out of service Monday until further notice, as a result of damage inflicted by Hurricane Irene.

Following Hurricane Irene, the MTA began operating Monday, offering limited service on subway, bus, and railroad.