White House and State Department officials confirmed that the Obama administration has dispatched the top U.S. diplomat for Africa, Johnny Carson, to Central Africa this weekend to help negotiate an end the latest crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I can tell you that......
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Halle Berry's ex-boyfriend claims he was threatened before fight with actress's fiance
Carla Bruni backs French gay marriage plan, but not feminism
A new report says that a child is hurt in a bounce house every 46 minutes.
The two-party tango that is negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" took a turn Monday as two more Republican lawmakers expressed willingness to break with a long-standing anti-tax pledge and the White House revealed that President Obama made fresh overtures to congressional leaders on both sides.
ABC News' Sharyn Alfonsi catches up with the winners of the last mega-jackpot.
Millions of consumers are doing their holiday shopping on the Internet.
With a $425 million Powerball jackpot now up for grabs, people are lining up across the country with dreams of money, money, money. “[I] really want that Powerball,” Tony Hanson of Georgia said. In 2006, eight meatpacking workers — called the “Nebraska 8″ — struck...
A company that makes clothes for Sean Combs' clothing brand ENYCE and other U.S. labels reassured investors that a factory fire that killed 112 people over the weekend would not harm its balance sheet, and also pledged to pay the families of the dead $1,200 per victim. In an announcement Monday, Li & Fung Ltd., a middleman company that supplies clothes from Bangladesh factories to U.S. brands, said "it wishes to clarify" that the deadly Saturday night blaze at the high-rise Tazreen Fashions...
ABC News’ Ben Maas reports: It has long been known that grapefruit juice can pose dangerous — and even deadly — risks when taken along with certain medications. Now, experts warn the list of medications that can result in these interactions is longer than many...
NJ Gov. Christie announces re-election bid, says he'll lead storm recovery 'for the long haul'
Astronaut Scott Kelly will become the first UP.SE. astronaut to spend a year in space. He will help NASA collect data on the effects of long term spaceflight on a human. He will also free up seats on ferry ships sold to space tourists by the Russian space agency.
"The View" hosts discuss Rihanna's Twitter photo of a man in her bed, and Brown's recent Twitter war.
Americans are returning to work today after the extended Thanksgiving weekend just in time for Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year.