President Obama is delivering his major policy speech outlining the future of America's military drone program, and the future of the entire war on terror, though he doesn't want us to call it that anymore. Here are the key highlights, live video, full text, and more.
The World Wildlife Fund released a new report on biodiversity and human interaction with the planet, but there's one map in particular, highlighted by The Washington Post, that shows just how much damage we're doing.
Three mountain climbers have died and two more are missing after a windstorm hit a "traffic jam" of climbers trying to descend from the summit of Mount Everest over the weekend.
Robin Gibb, one third of the legendary Bee Gees, died on Sunday due to complications from liver and colon cancer.
Today in sports: The Heat are falling apart, SEC football plays rough, and a Saints takes a big shot at the Commish.
Facebook's big IPO day was a wild ride, but ultimately ended with the stock price almost exactly where it began.
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The Secretary General of the United Nations says he believes al-Qaeda is responsible for two massive bombs that killed 55 people in Damascus last week.
An unknown buyer has paid over $90 million for an unfinished penthouse apartment, setting a new mark for the priciest home in New York City.
Police arrested a 28-year-old man this morning and charged him with capital murder in the deaths of two motorists who were shot in their cars on Mississippi highways.
A massive trove of documents was just released in the Trayvon Martin investigation, including an autopsy report that shows Martin had THC in system when he died.
Everyone hates Bruno Iskil for single handled costing JPMorgan $2 billion, but some titans of finance wield just as much power over financial markets by uttering a few words -- and get rewarded handsomely for it.
Today in sports: Some rare memorabilia, the NHL readies for its next labor fight, and Wenlock is watching you!
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A new study says that raising the level of HDL, the so-called "good cholesterol," doesn't actually lower your chances of having a heart attack.
Representative Mike Coffman of Colorado is backing off comments he made last weekend, when he hinted at "birtherism" and said that President Obama is "in his heart... not an American."
White Americans have officially passed a major — though not unexpected — milestone as they now represent less than half of all births in the United States.
RadarOnline and TMZ are both reporting that Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was found dead in her home today of an apparent suicide.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department can become a class action suit, possibly creating a class of potential victims in hundreds of thousands.
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WFTV in Orlando reports that the autopsy report on Travyon Martin shows broken skin on his knuckles, suggesting that he was involved in a fight before being shot and killed by George Zimmerman.
More and better weaponry is being funneled to Syrian rebels by neighboring Gulf states, which much of the support effort being organized by U.S. forces
Amid the ongoing debate over President Obama's support of gay marriage and following of North Carolina's recent ban of it, Virginia's House of Delegates voted today to deny a judicial nomination to Tracy Thorne-Begland, who would have become the state's first openly gay judge.
Mitt Romney received an endorsement from the other former President Bush — even if it was hastily delivered from behind the doors of a closing elevator.
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In an effort to avoid an embarrassing leaks, the Obama campaign is reportedly asking donors attending the President's most intimate fundraisers to hand over their cellphones at the door.
As the world braces for Facebook's earthshaking IPO, a new AP-CNBC poll shows that most Americans don't trust Facebook and are not optimistic about the company's future.
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, will be charged with the dastardly sounding offense of "perverting the course of justice" during the investigation of News Corp's. still ongoing phone hacking scandal.
There were plenty of headlines on the Internet this morning like "War On Texting While Walking" (Gothamist) and "Stupid Laws: Text And Walk In Fort Lee, New Jersey, “Win” $85 Fine" (Gadgetsteria). But after a couple of phone calls were made by MSNBC.com's Rosa Golijan, it turns out there's no ban—and there never was.
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New York City police officers stopped and questioned more than 200,000 people in the just the first three months of 2012, setting up a record pace for much criticized tactic.
The Wall Street Journal reports that shortly before stepping down as CEO, Scott Thompson told Yahoo's board that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
The Uganda army has managed to track down and arrest a "big fish" in the Lord's Resistance Army, who is an ally to their controversial leader, Joseph Kony.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about a man who was able to move trillion dollar markets in a single bet, is that we know so little about him. Especially when everyone has known what he was up to for weeks.
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Almost four years after Americans became obsessed the idea of "too big to fail," JPMorgan found a way to lose $2 billion in one quarter without breaking a sweat — or any securities laws.
Did you get an email this week telling you that you're currently involved in a lawsuit against Apple? Perhaps you'd like to know why you became so litigious?
Intelligence services in the United Kingdom are now getting pulled into the story of the foiled airline bomb plot as it's been revealed that the mole who infiltrated al Qaeda in Yemen was actually a British citizen.
Archeologists have unearthed what they say is the oldest known version of the Mayan calendar and one that doesn't "end" with the Earth's destruction later this year. Yeah, you're welcome.
Few large organizations are better at collecting data than the federal government, but actually making sense of it all is one challenge they might not be up for.
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Both the Syria government and opposition forces blame the other side for two huge bombs that went off in Damascus today, underscoring once again the failure of the U.N. cease fire.
Debris from the Russian "demonstration" plane that disappeared over Indonesia yesterday has been found on the side of a mountain, where it apparently crashed in heavy fog.
The fortuitous timing of President Obama's announcement on same sex marriage meant that it came during Shepard Smith's show on Fox News, giving him the first incredible reaction on the network.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced a full internal review to determine who might have leaked information to the media about the suicide bomb plot that was thwarted by an Al Qaeda spy.
Remember that delicious "hell hath no fury" story about an angry dentist in Poland who pulled out all of her ex-boyfriend's teeth? You may be shocked to learn that it didn't really happen.
Sarah Lacy of PandoDaily reports that AOL is looking to unload two of its signature blog properties, Engadget and TechCrunch, after a year of messy public fights over their leadership.
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In a shocking revelation from intelligence sources, the suicide bomber reportedly thwarted trying to blow up a U.S. airliner last month, was actually an informant who willingly turned over the bomb and a top al-Qaeda operative to the CIA.
It was rough night for liberals as primary season turned its focus from presidential candidates to more local concerns.
The White House Press Secretary has taken a beating the last couple days, facing more than 50 questions on the gay marriage issue and they are questions the press is not about to stop asking.
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