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It's a debt deal that isn't ideal or loved. So why is it getting a vote on Capitol Hill?

Illinois governor Pat Quinn is poised to sign legislation giving undocumented immigrant students access to educational benefits, making Illinois the second state in less than a week to pass legislation aimed at bolstering education for undocumented immigrants.

Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn is adding one million robots over the next three years in hopes of reducing labor costs.

Cyrus has been showing the world a more mature (in a good way) side to herself with her charity work and under the radar relationship to Liam Hemsworth, who was recently cased in "The Hunger Games" series along side Josh Hutcherson.

With the debt deal negotiations done, the focus now shifts to the Republican-led House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will try to attract moderate Democrats to offset the likely high number of Tea Party House members who will vote against the bill. A Senate vote on the bill also could occur later Monday.

Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions.

Previous allegations that AT&T has charged users multiple times the actual data usage have come back in spotlight even as the carrier is bracing to face ire from users over its plan to throttle data speeds for high-usage customers.

Former Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger and estranged wife Maria Shriver celebrated his 64th birthday, having lunch together.

Arnold Shwarzenegger and Maria Shriver reunited on Saturday to celebrate the former California governor?s birthday in Beverly Hills, along with two of their children, Patrick and Christopher.

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Democrat and Republican leaders had reached an agreement to reduce the U.S. deficit and avoid default, but it was not clear if the spending cuts were deep enough to stave off a credit rating downgrade. The White House said the compromise would cut about $2.5 trillion from the deficit over the next 10 years but the reductions would not happen so quickly that they would drag on the fragile U.S. economy.

Two days before a financial market-rocking U.S. Government default, President Barack Obama Sunday night announced that leaders of both major political parties have reached a debt deal agreement to reduce the U.S. deficit and avert a default. Both the Senate and the House are expected to vote on the bill Monday.

A deal to raise the federal debt ceiling and avoid the first ever U.S. default is "very close," but House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday there is a chance they may not pass it.

Pop star and actress Miley Cyrus has gotten an equal sign tattoo on her finger in support of gay marriage.

Fighting diabetes means not just keeping down body fat, but even building more muscle mass, according to a new study

Space Exploration Technologies, or simply SpaceX, and other private sector companies are vying to fill the void for transport to space after the U.S. government put the breaks on its own shuttle program.

STANFORD, California, July 30 - Comeback queen Serena Williams crushed Germany's Sabine Lisicki 6-1 6-2 to move into the final of the Stanford Classic on Saturday.

Serena Williams, who needed nearly a year to recover from surgery, moved into the Bank of the West Classic final, where she will face France's Marion Bartoli on Sunday at 12 PM PDT.

The couple?s split could now be the costliest in California history.

Casey Anthony might be one of the most hated women in America, but "Hustler" magazine wants to give her a half-million dollars.

Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or Space X, is planning to fill the void left by the retiring U.S. space shuttle program with its own space taxi as it ramps up for a test later this year.

When U.S. Immigration agents found a boatload of Mexican castaways huddled on a Malibu beach, and a larger group marooned a week later on an island north of Los Angeles, they realized it was a new trend.