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Alexander Haig, who managed the Nixon administration during the Watergate crisis and served a controversial stint as secretary of state under President Reagan, died on Saturday. He was 85.
The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, according to a Senate committee report released Saturday.
Watch the Tiger Woods public statement. Will he admit to his affairs? Will Elin be staying or calling it quits?
Critics argue the French movie industry has deliberately undermined the 19th Century novelist's ethnicity. They say a mixed-race actor should have been chosen to play the national hero
Durham police late Wednesday arrested the woman who four years ago falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her. Crystal Mangum assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him, investigators said.
According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families.
AUSTIN, Texas – A man upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into his small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building that houses federal tax employees, authorities said.
U.S. Rep. Steve LaTourette has joined 25 House colleagues trying to preserve Constellation, the back-to-the-moon mission that brought stability to the NASA Glenn Research Center.
TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday any country that tried to impose new sanctions on Iran would regret its actions.
The eight Americans are part of a group of 10 that face charges of kidnapping and criminal association for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the nation's January 12 earthquake.
In the study published this week, researchers used anthropological, radiological and genetic testing to examine Tut and 10 other bodies mummified over a two-year period during Tut's dynasty.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has ordered Toyota to provide documents showing when and how it learned of the defects affecting approximately 6 million vehicles in the United States.