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LONDON | When you’re smiling, the whole world really does smile with you. A paper being published today in a British medical journal concludes that happiness is contagious — and that people pass on their good cheer even to total strangers.
STOCKTON, Calif. | A jailhouse interview with a woman accused of abusing a teenage boy reveals startling details of the boy’s ordeal.
MIAMI | When President-elect Barack Obama called Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen at her Miami district office Wednesday, she hung up on him.
ALLENTOWN, Pa. | A woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes after the seat broke.
WASHINGTON | Many troops who have suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of long-term health problems, but it is impossible to predict how high those risks are, researchers say.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. | Three men, including a police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi.
WASHINGTON | For the final time as president, George W. Bush led the countdown Thursday night to the glowing unveiling of the nearly 42-foot Christmas tree that overlooks the White House.
NEW YORK | Doreen Giuliano was obsessed with saving her son from a life behind bars after he was convicted of murder.
WASHINGTON | Democrats are growing impatient with President-elect Barack Obama’s refusal to inject himself in the major economic crises confronting the country.
They’re baaaaack. And they still want baaaaajillions of tax dollars. Executives from Detroit’s Big Three took automobiles this time (hybrids actually made in the USA!) to Washington on Thursday to plead for more money so they can keep building cars not enough people want.
WASHINGTON | Big men drove small cars on a road trip to Washington to beg for billions and billions of taxpayers’ dollars.
NEW YORK | What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people?
WHEATON, Ill. | Conservative Anglican leaders unveiled Wednesday the constitution and laws for a new organization intended to replace the Episcopal Church as the American arm of the Anglican Communion.
WASHINGTON | Financial industry lobbyists are urging the Treasury Department to take steps to lower mortgage rates and help stabilize the battered U.S. housing market.
Here’s a shocker. The White House won’t display a Christmas tree ornament that calls for President Bush’s impeachment.
WASHINGTON | The Pentagon this week approved a major new policy directive that elevated the military’s mission of “irregular warfare” to an equal footing with traditional combat.
BOSTON | The oldest prison inmate in Massachusetts, a career criminal who was the first person to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list twice, has died at 92.
CHICAGO | President-elect Barack Obama selected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be his commerce secretary Wednesday.
NEW YORK | Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem-cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm evidence to back up their claims.
TRACY, Calif. | After being held captive for nearly a year, an emaciated and shackled 17-year-old boy climbed out a window of his captors’ home in search of help, police said.
LOS ANGELES | Lil Wayne — a ubiquitous and successful performer on today’s music scene — was the most rewarded by the Recording Academy on Wednesday.
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Pictures of former fraternity brothers line a wall, and empty soda and beer cartons are stacked near the back door. It's like any other college fraternity house - except for the deer carcass hanging in the front hall.
U.S. charitable foundations gave money to international causes at record levels in 2007 and their contributions are likely to increase again this year, says a report by an organization that monitors philanthropy.
If troubled automakers and banks need government bailouts, why not give their customers federally financed vouchers to help cover car and mortgage payments - so both consumers and companies could benefit from the money?
O.J. Simpson is going to prison; the question is for how long.
Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance of the eight people killed a year ago in the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history.
Three federal judges seem convinced that overcrowding in California prisons is so bad it leads to unconstitutional conditions. Now they must weigh whether ordering the release of nearly a third of the state's inmates would be a public safety nightmare.
A chartered bus carrying high school students collided with a tractor-trailer on an icy highway in north-central Illinois, sending at least 36 people to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.
Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.
A couple accused of beating and torturing a teenager, who authorities say was sometimes kept shackled inside their home, appeared in shackles themselves to face more than a dozen kidnapping and child abuse charges.
A soldier was acquitted of murder Thursday in the 2005 bombing deaths of two superiors in Iraq, triggering loud outbursts and gasps from the slain officers' families.
Special court-appointed investigators are seeking fines against Gov. Matt Blunt, alleging he "knowingly and purposely" violated Missouri's public-records law by denying access to e-mails.
Depending on your political tastes, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sarah Palin or even Tina Fey could be considered Woman of the Year. But here's the harder question: Was this the Year of the Woman?
The Chicago City Council has approved a more than $1.1 billion deal to lease city parking meters to a private operator.
Federal prosecutors twice pursued a former autoworker suspected of running a multimillion-dollar drug operation. The first attempt fizzled when Clarence Carson died shortly after an indictment. The second? Blame it on the collapse of Detroit's real-estate market.
Texas juries this year sentenced the fewest number of inmates to death row since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976, according to a report Thursday from an anti-death penalty group.
When football star Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg, police were surprised to learn of it from TV - not from the hospital, as required by law.
At least three U.S. residents have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in as many weeks as the death toll in the violent border city surpasses 1,400.
A homeless woman who died after writhing in pain on a hospital floor for nearly an hour could have survived if she had received proper treatment, a county report concedes.
A romantic marriage proposal on the Oregon coast turned deadly for the bride-to-be when a wave swept her out to sea.
A 16-year-old accused of smashing into a police car during a chase in Philadelphia, killing an officer, has been ordered to stand trial as an adult for murder.
Nine Illinois Secretary of State employees face suspension without pay because they looked up President-elect Barack Obama's street address in state records, officials said Thursday.
A fire on Thursday burned through the roof of The Body Shop, a landmark West Hollywood strip club mentioned in a Motley Crue hit.
A Texas Supreme Court justice was fined $29,000 on Thursday after the state ethics commission found that a law firm provided what amounted to an illegal campaign contribution by giving him a $168,000 discount on legal fees.
A New York City firefighter, critically injured when a colleague hit him with a metal chair during a firehouse fight, has reached a $3.75 million settlement with the city.
As of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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