After the high-profile recalls of millions of lead-contaminated toys last year, a watchdog group said that its tests found fewer toys with high levels of chemicals in them this year.
An Ohio death row inmate says prison food is partly responsible for making him too fat to be executed humanely.
The government's $700 billion plan to rescue the creaking financial system has prompted readers to ask, why can't we just arrest the CEOs responsible for this mess?
A British university is investigating a video of binge-drinking undergraduates taking part in a bizarre initiation ceremony with a student dressed like a Nazi officer.
With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw, Mich. She was the top bidder during an auction on eBay, The Saginaw News reported.
MADD removed Rose �Harn as a volunteer at its booth at a state fair last month amid complaints that the sight of her was too disturbing.
The government's failure to reach a compromise on a hotly contested federal bailout package is adding to the frustration and confusion surrounding the country's current financial crisis.
Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
A calendar entry for Feb. 16, 2009, was supposed to read "Black History Lunch and Learn." Instead, it says "Black History Linch and Learn."
Kauai police officers use a Taser to restrain an armed man after barricading himself in a police car at a Kilauea home for five hours.
David Letterman assailed John McCain's decision to cancel an appearance on his talk show and, with prickly humor, questioned whether the nominee - now trailing in some polls - was in trouble.
Even after an extra U.S. Army brigade arrives in Afghanistan, three times that many reinforcements will be needed, the highest-ranking U.S. general there said Tuesday.
An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.
Anyone who doubts the influence of Japan's erotic cultural imports in the U.S. only has to spend time with a Hello Kitty vibrator to know it's not just a fringe subculture anymore.
Naish Hasan, the 28-year-old bride and a women's rights activist, and Imran Ali, the 41-year-old groom, were married last week in a ceremony that is believed to be the first of its kind in India.
Even the top Republican in charge of the party's Senate campaigns concedes that the GOP will lose seats this year - the only question is how many.
U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual events on broadcast television, a report says.
Company medical clinics are springing up at Toyota, Harrah's, Disney, and elsewhere - and the savings are substantial.
Tough economic times in rural areas all around the country have created possible openings for Democrat Barack Obama.
The FBI says it has identified the kidnapping suspect who calls himself Clark Rockefeller as a German man who came to the United States as a youth and later took on several aliases.
More schools are banning peanut products as the number of kids diagnosed with peanut allergies has increased, causing many parents -- and even some advocates for people with food allergies -- to speak out.
It may not cause arthritis but it does give women big ugly knuckles!!
An elderly woman� who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for killing her 85-year-old ex-boyfriend because she thought he was seeing another woman was granted a new trial Friday.
A part-time south Alabama evangelist pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge in the death of his wife, a mother of eight whose body had been stored in a freezer at least three years.
A man accused of stabbing, beheading and cannibalizing another man on a bus in Canada pleaded Tuesday in court for someone to "please kill me."
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