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Sports' elite stripped down for the 2012 ESPN Body Issue featuring 27 athletes posing naked in pictures for the fourth annual edition. Some of the athletes posing in nude photos for the magazine include Rob Gronkowski of the New England Patriots, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays, Abby Wambach of the Women's National Soccer Team and Tyson Chandler of the New York Knicks, who is featured on the cover.

More than 1.3 million requests for information about mobile telephone subscribers came from police and other law enforcement agencies last year, the New York Times reported.

If you are reading this online, then the computer you're using is not infected with the DNS Changer Malware. However, those who haven't bothered to remove the malicious software lost internet access at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

A video of the brutal public slaying of an Afghan woman by a militant, believed to be a member of the Taliban, was caught on camera last month near Kabul, laying bare the perilously unstable law and order situation in Afghanistan, ahead of the planned withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014.

The Dark Knight Rises is hands-down the most widely hyped movie of the summer. Yet, for all the fanfare surrounding the film, there's a lot of mystery, too. It appears director Christopher Nolan has heard his fans' pleas for More, and released a 13-minute sneak preview of the coming blockbuster.

Estimates have The Amazing Spider-Man finishing the weekend atop the movie box-office standings, raking in $65 million in U.S. and Canadian sales. Overall, it has grossed $140 million since its U.S. release on July 3.

Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.

A new novel by Yale Law professor and writer Stephen L. Carter gives us a bizarre alternate outcome of the Abraham Lincoln presidency, had it not been cut short by John Wilkes Booth.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? high-profile divorce came as a surprise to some. The duo burst into a public love life with an oft-mocked appearance Cruise made on Oprah, which saw the actor hopping on couches and pumping his fists. But now their split has opened up new interest into how scientologists handle divorce.

The heatwave that's ravaged the Midwest is moving east, bringing with it wildfire smoke and record breaking temperatures.

The autopsy report on Mary Richardson Kennedy revealed the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. had traces of three antidepressant medications in her system when she died.

The Orlando center will likely be dealt before the trade deadline.

The CBGB Festival at Webster Hall in NYC turned violent Friday night when founding bassist of the Co-Mags, Harley Flanagan took out a knife in the VIP balcony area.

David and Elena Barnes are Connecticut parents who are coming under fire from both the media and Internet commenters for letting their 5-year-old daughter Anaia swim with sharks while the family was on vacation in the Bahamas.

A horse became an unwilling unicorn after he was found with a piece of wood wedged into his skull, NBC's Today.com reported. The horse's owner, Tommasina Ashley, was in shock when she found out that her 30-year-old horse, Danny, had been impaled by a nine-inch piece of wood.

Politico's headline jolts readers the moment they sign on to the site and read, Zombie Economy Threatens Obama. After all the zombie apocalypse hysteria our nation has been experiencing lately, the walking dead have even made their way -- metaphorically, of course -- into the economy.

As the gap between America's middle class and the wealthiest 1 percent has widened, luxury retailers and discounters continue to grow, while midprice brands are finding it difficult to compete.

One standout film at South By Southwest this year was undoubtedly The Do-Deca-Pentathlon. Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass, two notable bed head cinema figures, the uplifting indie is both hilarious and touching.

Many high school graduates want to forego university altogether.

He asserted that a number of major leaguers who have been elected into the Hall of Fame in recent years also did not deserve enshrinement.

Is Jeremy Lin worth a four-year, $28.9 million contract?