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New York City police have still not found Shanel Nadal, the woman who kidnapped her eight children from a child agency during a supervised visit on Monday.

A U.S. judge set a February 13 start for a trial over whether AT&T Inc can buy rival T-Mobile USA, a compromise between the companies' desire for a quick resolution and the Justice Department's request for more time to prepare its case.

The New York Yankees clinched a berth in the Major League Baseball postseason for the 16th time in the last 17 years with a 4-2 comeback victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.

Jamey Rodemeyer, a gay teen victim of bullying, committed suicide this weekend, according to his parents, days before the first ever DOE national summit against bullying.

A Denver-based natural gas company has sued a small town in New York state over its ban on natural gas drilling, a case that may set a precedent on how local governments in the Empire State can regulate the controversial process known as fracking.

NFL was probably not amused by Deon Grant's injury on Monday Night Football and has sent a memo to teams about faking injuries.

Designer clothes owned by Hollywood legend and fashion icon Elizabeth Taylor, including haute couture by Chanel, Yves St. Laurent and Dior, will be sold at auction in New York, Christie's said on Wednesday.

A Michigan man and his two sons were seriously injured by a car bomb late Tuesday, but all three are expected to survive. Police are investigating whether the attack was random or targeted at one of the victims.

Twitter executives announced that they will start selling political advertisements, seeking for the first time to profit off of the social media tool's role as a forum for political activity and debate.

If the rumors hold true, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to be a single woman without a shot at the presidency.

Casualties in the competitive wars against Apple are starting to add up -- so much so that sometimes it barely seems like a battle at all.

New York police are on the lookout for a 28-year-old Manhattan mom who abducted her eight children from a foster-care facility. Police say Shanel Nadal took the children without permission from the agency. She was visiting her children at the Forestdale agency in Queens when she took them. The ages of the child range from 11 months to 11 years old, according to reports.

The internet community has accused Yahoo of censoring email messages on Occupy Wall Street protests, after numerous videos were posted on YouTube by Yahoo users demonstrating the censoring.

The new couple took a romantic hike in Los Angeles on Sunday.

A new type of smartphone will be launched on Sept. 29 in New York, HTC announced Tuesday. It features one accessory named Rhyme charm, a small purple cube that lights up when the phone rings because of a call or a new message, which is evidently designed to draw the attention of female.

President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to urge him to drop plans to ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state despite U.S. and Israeli objections.

While the turnout was much smaller than the number anticipated to participate, Occupy Wall Street, a leaderless resistance movement, is now calling those in Northern California to participate in the growing occupation in San Francisco, now that the financial district in lower Manhattan is being disrupted by fervent protesters.

More U.S. women are drinking booze and becoming alcoholics, according to a study by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. About one-fifth of women have at least three drinks per day, versus a figure of about 42 percent for men.

Multiple Republican-led states have passed new election laws that severely hamper certain groups' ability to vote, a move that many Democrats see as a move to weaken their base ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

Legendary singer Tony Bennett has been sweeping headlines, not for the release of his new album, but instead for comments criticizing America's foreign policy, which he has since apologized for.

The Obama administration is constructing a network of drone strike bases in Africa and the Arabian peninsula as its broadening campaign against Al Qaeda affiliates reaches increasingly into Yemen and Somalia.