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Manchester City continued their red-hot form with a 4-2 win over Fulham yesterday, but it wasn't without one embarrassing gaffe from captain Vincent Kompany. The Belgian defender scored one of the most unlikely own goals...

"Saturday Night Live" host Jimmy Fallon and musical guest Justin Timberlake teamed up once again for "The Barry Gibb" show, interviewing Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly [Cecily Strong], Paul Ryan [Taran Killam] and Madon...

Sometimes art draws inspiration directly from nature. In a video posted to YouTube, artists from a company called Anthill Art poured molten aluminum inside a fire ant anthill, dug it up, and washed off the dirt.  This r...

The Fourchon Oilman's Association has awarded $108,500 in grants to 24 schools and community groups in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a year-end memo to all Apple employees this week where he says Apple is working on some big stuff for 2014. 9to5Mac was the first to get its hands on the memo. Most of the note is a recap of what ...

Fox brought out its special holiday-themed scoreboard graphic for Week 16 of NFL action. It features (somewhat confusingly) Christmas lights to represent how many timeouts each team has left. It also has a snowfall anima...

Samsung has a really bizarre new commercial for its Galaxy Gear smart watch. In the spot, two men compete over a cute blonde by trying to impress her with their gadget prowess on the ski slopes. One man just has a smartp...

AS NEW YEAR approached a century ago, most people in the West looked forward to 1914 with optimism. The hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo had not been entirely free of disaster--there had been a horrific civil w...

When pupils get in trouble for silly reasons, the results can be serious EARLIER this autumn a school in Canon City, Colorado suspended Hunter Yelton for violating its sexual-harassment policy. His crime? Kissing a girl ...

Police in Bangladesh have charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees with culpable homicide for alleged negligence in a fire at the facility last year that killed 112 people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a central Florida-based pesticide producer has agreed to pay more than $1.7 million in civil penalties for allegedly distributing and selling mislabeled pesticides.

It's holiday time, and that means more scams.     

A major banking regulator moved Friday to curb a type of financial maneuver that banks can exploit to make themselves look stronger than they actually are.     

Company officials are trying to figure out what caused a Friday explosion and fire at the Axiall Corp. chemical plant near Lake Charles.

Earlier in December, Wonkblog hosted a debate on a guaranteed basic income (GBI) for all Americans. The idea is simple: the federal government would send a check to every adult each month. It would replace all income sec...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. is the juiciest target for hackers hunting credit card information. And experts say incidents like the recent data theft at Target's stores will get worse before they get better. That's in part ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- As a key enrollment deadline hits Monday, many people without health insurance have been sizing up policies on the new government health care marketplace and making what seems like a logical choice: They'...

Tony Romo came up big for the Dallas Cowboys in Week 16, orchestrating a late touchdown drive to beat the Washington Redskins 24-23. Romo took a ton of heat for throwing two late picks in Dallas' collapse against Green B...

Winter has arrived in Michigan with an icy blast, sending freezing rain across a wide section of the Lower Peninsula and knocking out electrical service to at least 312,000 homes and businesses.

So you decide to drive home after a few drinks. All of a sudden, panic strikes when blue and red lights appear in your rearview mirror. Join the conversation about this story »     

Some people did not like my recent article about Phil Robertson, star of Duck Dynasty. In the article, I noted problems with Robertson's comments that go far beyond the idea that homosexuality is a sin. Robertson said bl...

On Friday, the Obama administration told a federal judge that even after the disclosures of Edward Snowden, a legal battle over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program poses a grave threat to nationa...