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A vintage World War II plane crashed into a crowd killing 2 and injuring 54 in Reno, Nev., on Friday at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show.

Ex-governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin, has slammed Joe McGinniss, author of the upcoming The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, which alleges that Palin used cocaine and marijuana, had a one-night stand with basketball star Glen Rice and a long-term affair with her husband's business partner.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will demand full membership for a Palestinian state in the United Nations, which may result in a diplomatic collision between it and Israel and the United States.

Findings of the second major investigation by the U.S. government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting over $30 billion on the table to quickly settle its outstanding legal headaches.

Loggerhead turtle populations divided and listed as threatened or endangered.

The Obama administration will tell Congress on Friday it plans to upgrade Taiwan's existing fleet of F-16 fighter jets, said sources involved in a deal likely to anger China while disappointing a Taiwan government that was seeking more advanced aircraft.

Some students who have not been vaccinated for whooping cough were sent away from school until they got the shot.

Under which scenario could former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin make it harder for the Republican Party to win the U.S. presidency in 2012?

Although many of the world’s democratic states have had females as presidents and/or prime ministers – surprisingly, many have not, including the most powerful democracy on Earth, the United States.

Former President Jimmy Carter appeared on MSNBC Thursday night and endorsed candidate Mitt Romney for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. Could the endorsement doom Romney's nomination chances?

Diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi threw rockets, mortars and heavy gunfire at Libyan fighters who pushed into two besieged towns on Friday in a bid to end months of civil war and capture key figures from the old ruling system.

President Barack Obama Friday signed into law a the first major overhaul of U.S. patent law since 1952 -- one that officials say will speed the application and approval process for inventors -- a short-cut that could lead to more inventions coming to market sooner, creating more jobs.

COPENHAGEN -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt has become the first female prime minister of Denmark, according results of the Danish general election on Thursday.

Sarah Palin can sure get into bed in some surprising places.I'm not talking about a sexual life, either. It's The New York Times that Palin has cozied up to, and that is causing a second look.

That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here.

At a meeting with E.U. finance ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the case for a leveraged E.U. buyout fund ala the U.S.'s successful 2008 TALF, to help address Europe’s banking crisis, but the structure and size of any beefed-up intervention mechanism remained undetermined as of Friday night in Europe.

Photos of the final phase of the Libyan revolution

Presidential candidate Rick Perry said Republican rival Mitt Romney would not provide a stark enough contrast with President Barack Obama in the 2012 election because of his record on health care policy.

Geithner is currently in Warsaw, Poland to meet with Eurozone finance ministers to find a way out of the continent’s huge debt problems after more than two years of bailouts, wrecked economies and bickering.

FTC changes the definition of personal information and looks to strengthen child protection laws.

Here's a look at which organizations/institutions employ the most people in the world. The list may surprise you.

Hurricane Irene cost the Long Island Power Authority about $170 million, which could leave Long Island ratepayers on the hook for about a quarter of the cost.

The good news for Congressional Republicans is that President Barack Obama's approval rating is hovering at a term-low 40 percent. The bad news is that the GOP's approval rating is at 19 percent.

Republican presidential debates and a rise in the number of natural disasters are influencing more Americans to believe that the world is warming, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who believe in global warming rose to 83 percent in 2011, from last year's 75 percent, the poll conducted Sept. 8-12 found out.

Obama didn’t deny the account, but declined to tell Suskind what he told Geithner about this apparent breach of an executive order.

Ron Paul has at least one celebrity firmly in his camp: singer Barry Manilow.

Reports that former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin and former NBA basketball star Glen Rice had a one-time fling continued to dominate the headlines and social media Web sites on Friday.

A centerpiece of the Obama administration's immigration policy drew its sharpest criticism yet, as a major task force urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to overhaul the embattled Secure Communities program.

California voters give Senator Dianne Feinstein the lowest approval rating of the powerful Democrat's nearly 20-year career in Washington, according to a poll released on Friday.