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Carroll Shelby, designer of Shelby Cobra sports car, dies at 89
US sports car designer Carroll Shelby, who gave his name to the famous Shelby Cobra sports car, has died aged 89 at a hospital...
Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her 4-year-old son on the latest cover of Time magazine
The latest cover of Time magazine has caused outrage after Jamie Lynne Grumet, a 26-year-old mother from Los Angeles, has been pictured breastfeeding her...
US foreign-born population is at the highest percentage since 1920
A new report by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that 40 million foreign-born people were living in the country in 2010 - the highest...
Bill Clinton branded Barack Obama “incompetent” and urged Hillary to run against him in 2012, claims Edward Klein’s book
Bill Clinton branded President Barack Obama as an “amateur” and urged his wife Hillary to run against him in 2012 U.S. presidential election, claims...
Prom dates plunge into lake while taking photos after pier collapsed
Prom night was almost a complete washout for a group of students from the Kettle Moraine High School, Wisconsin, when they posed for a...
Barack Obama has become the first sitting US president to back same-sex marriage
President Barack Obama has ended months of hedging on the issue of same-sex marriage by saying he thinks gay couples should be able to...
Twitter objects at a New York court order to release Occupy protester messages
Twitter is objecting at a New York state court order to hand over the message history of Malcolm Harris, one of its users who...
Al-Qaeda underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a CIA double agent
Reports from the US say the al-Qaeda underwear bomber sent to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was actually a double agent who infiltrated the...
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a frequent Fox News guest, says women should not be allowed to vote
Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, a frequent Fox News guest, has drawn wide condemnation for saying women should have never been given the right to...
FBI foils al-Qaeda updated underwear bomb plot in Yemen
US officials say FBI has foiled a plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb". The device was...
Why Amish children from Indiana farms are nearly immune to asthma and allergies
According to a new study, Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss...
2012 US Peace Index reveals the most peaceful and most violent states in America
The non-profit Institute for Economics and Peace has released its U.S. peace index for the second-straight year. According to 24/7 Wall St., the rankings were...
President Barack Obama kicks off his re-election campaign in Columbus, Ohio
It was an embarrassing start for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign yesterday as he held his first political rally of the 2012 race in...
Pepsi original secret formula could be unveiled
Joan Ritchie Silleck and Robert Ritchie, the heirs of Richard Ritchie, the man who developed the formula for Pepsi-Cola in 1931, have sued snack...
Gavin Smith, 20th Century Fox executive, missing for four days
Los Angeles police are searching for Gavin Smith, a missing movie executive who disappeared on Tuesday. Gavin Smith, 57, a longtime 20th Century Fox employee,...
Ed Kennedy, scoop reporter who broke the news of WW II end, receives Associated Press apology
The Associated Press has apologized for sacking Ed Kennedy, a war reporter who broke the news that World War II had ended one day before...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 attacks planner, appears in court
9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of plotting the 2001 attacks are appearing before a US military tribunal at Guantanamo...
More than one in three Americans would fail citizenship test
According to an American survey, more than one third of U.S. citizens would fail the country's citizenship test for immigrants. The study, conducted by the Center for...
Osama Bin Laden’s documents seized in Abbottabad raid posted online
Osama Bin Laden’s documents seized during the raid on the Abbottabad compound were posted online by the research wing of the US military academy,...
Spirit Airlines will charge $100 for each carry-on baggage
Carry-on baggage fee will soon cost some Spirit Airlines passengers $100, which is more than they may have paid for their flight. The Miramar, Florida,...
Emmelyn Roettger becomes Mensa’s youngest US member after being dignosed with autism
Three-year-old Emmelyn Roettger of Washington D.C. loves writing, spelling and counting and is fascinated by science and space. Despite her tender age Emmelyn Roettger, known...
Barack Obama’s Afghan speech: 23,000 troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan
President Barack Obama has pledged to "finish the job" and end the Afghan war, addressing the US public live from a military base in...
US Navy SEAL accuses Barack Obama of using them as “ammunition” for his re-election campaign
US Navy SEAL has slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces...
More than one shooter in Robert F. Kennedy assassination, claims Nina Rhodes-Hughes
Robert F. Kennedy, JFK’s brother, was shot dead by two gunmen and not just “lone wolf” Sirhan Sirhan, claims Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a witness stood...
At least three sailors died in a Newport yacht race collision
At least three people have died during a yacht race in Newport, US, weeks after another fatal accident off California. US Coast Guard boats are...
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