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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.

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.

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.

STANFORD, California - Marion Bartoli is no longer needled by the "little voice" that told her she did not belong in the winner's circle at grand slams and finally regards herself a true contender ahead of next month's U.S. Open.

Comedian Andy Dick pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he sexually abused a security guard and another man at a West Virginia bar by grabbing their crotches.

California has moved its presidential primary to June, consolidating trips to the poll to save money in an election that most voters in the Democratic leaning state see as a foregone conclusion.

Larisa Popa, 24, has been crowned as Miss Universe Romania 2011 in Bucharest July 29, 2011. Popa will represent Romania at the Miss Universe beauty pageant due to take place on September 12 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bank of America was sued by 15 former Countrywide Financial institutional investors who said they lost money after being misled about the mortgage lender's financial condition and lending practices.

A California woman was in jail on Thursday after being charged with making threats at the Philadelphia International Airport after a flight from England, including references to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Competitive Power Ventures Inc (CPV), GE Energy Financial Services and Diamond Generating Corp (DGC) began construction at their co-owned, 800-megawatt gas-fired CPV Sentinel Energy Center in Riverside County, California, the companies said in a release on Thursday.

The United States has hired Jurgen Klinsmann as its next national team coach, according to a report.

There is a short list of candidates to replace Bradley

Star baseball player Hideki Irabu was found hanging in his California home, and the police have said it was a case of 'apparent suicide'.

Astronomers discovered a twisted ring of gas that looks like an "infinity symbol", stretching past 600 light-years across the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Hideki Irabu, who started for the New York Yankees for three seasons in the late 1990s, was found dead at his Los Angeles-area home in an apparent suicide, the coroner's office said on Thursday.