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Scientists believe that human feces is the cause of the coral-killing disease white pox that has had a devastating effect on the Caribbean Elkhorn coral.

Renewed worries about Europe's debt crisis and a raft of weak U.S. economic data hit global markets on Thursday, driving down stocks and oil prices and pushing U.S. bond yields to record lows while pushing gold to a record high.

Overtime flows like water at the Port Authority, and management has no clear strategy to achieve its own benchmarks and goals for curbing costs, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

President Barack Obama on Thursday for the first time called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down after a brutal crackdown by Syrian forces on demonstrations against the Assad family's 41-year reign.

Graphic smoking warnings violate first amendment, lawyers say.

China is in the midst of a housing bubble, and the government has initiated policies to try and slow growth of second and third home buying. But many couples are getting around the new policies by faking divorce, so they can borrow more money.

Christine O'Donnell walks off Piers Morgan set, David Letterman gets threatened, Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey to star in a stripper movie, and more in today's Daily Scoop.

In one case, the acts disrupted Verizon?s local FIOS service.

Chinese couples are faking divorce so they can get borrow money to buy second and third homes. Here are five reasons China's economic bubble is sure to burst.

Assad has used tanks and ground troops to seize control of parts of Syria where anti-regime activity has been concentrated.

Michele Bachmann has promised supporters that if elected President she will make sure gas prices are lower than $2 a gallon.

Jerry Terrell Jackson set for execution by lethal injection.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether analysts at Standard & Poor's (S&P) wanted to lower ratings on selected mortgage-backed securities, but were prevented from doing so by more-senior S&P officials.

The majority of these replacements have no telecommunications training and someone is going to get hurt bad unless Verizon settles this.?

Last week, Verizon strikers also demonstrated in the front of the home of the company?s chairman, Ivan Seiderberg, in West Nyack, N.Y.

Hundreds of protesters jeered panel members inside the school auditorium.

Christine O'Donnell walked off the set of the Piers Morgan Show on CNN Wednesday night after the host asked questions about abstinence and gay marriage she did not want to answer.

?Health care costs continue to rise,? the company stated.

Former Delaware Senate candidate and Tea Party member Christine O'Donnell stormed off the set of the "Piers Morgan Tonight Show" Wednesday, upset over questions about gay marriage. She called Morgan "rude."

Global economic health rests on the United States and China finding common ground, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, in talks aimed at shoring up faith in the dollar.

Christine O'Donnell walked out of an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan on the "Piers Morgan Tonight" show on Wednesday. The former Delaware U.S. Senate candidate took offense at the host's questions about gay marriage.

Global economic stability rests on the United States and China working together, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told top Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday.

A key recommendation for medical coverage standards under the Obama administration's healthcare overhaul may be issued later than a September deadline.

Anna Hazare's followers see a triumph in their battle against corruption.

Rebels to the west and east of Tripoli battled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's forces Wednesday night for control of oil facilities vital to the civil war's outcome. The United States also deployed two more Predator drones for surveillance operations.

The company has laid out its reasons for asking concessions from its aggrieved workforce.

President Barack Obama's three-day bus tour along the back roads of the Midwest was billed as a chance to listen and what he heard was that people are deeply worried.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shutdown in July 2011 put 74,000 construction and related-sector workers on payless furlough.

Politicians and lawyers are coming to the defense of Anna Hazare, who was arrested under uncertain circumstances Tuesday.