Mitt Romney looked a little uneasy firing Big Bird during Wednesday night's presidential debate, said body language expert Chris Kowal. Kowal spent the night after the debate using a computer program to analyze the facial expressions of Romney and President Obama for clues about what they were really thinking during the one-on-one showdown....

No mountain was high enough, no river was wide enough, and no valley was low enough to keep one Montana man from watching the birth of his baby twins on Sept. 25 at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Mont. Jon Zimbelman, 31, Skyped with his...
In her new book, actress and author Jenny McCarthy talks about her devout Catholic upbringing.
A Dutch “abortion boat” bound for the Moroccan port of Smir has been blocked from entering the harbor. The campaign created by the ‘Women on Waves’ group sails to countries where abortion is illegal and was due to arrive in the Moroccan port today to...
Maternity specialists say that death of Oakland A pitcher's baby at 23 hours will likely be explained in autopsy and genetic analysis.
Nearly 100 people have been arrested in a series of raids in seven cities targeting health care fraud on massive scale. Doctors, nurses, even top hospital administrators were arrested in connection with separate scams totaling $430 million -- nearly a half billion dollars in pilfering.
Cosmetic procedures done at a spa might not always be safe.
The deadly venom of one of the most feared snakes in Africa apparently contains a painkiller that could rival morphine, but without the side effects, according to French scientists. The black mamba, found throughout sub-Saharan Africa and reportedly the second-largest snake on the continent, unleashes...
A unique way of speaking English disappears as Scotsman's death spells demise of rare dialect
A rare form of fungal meningitis has killed four people and sickened 26 across five states, and more cases are expected, health officials said.
It’s time to talk turkey. Or, more specifically, getting to your Thanksgiving destination to enjoy turkey this year. It’s seven weeks from the big day, and Thanksgiving weekend is one of the most heavily-traveled times of the year for leisure travelers. Because it’s a busy...
A U.S. Army soldier from upstate New York is the 2,000th American military fatality from the war in Afghanistan. On Thursday, the Pentagon released the casualty report for Army Sergeant First Class Daniel Metcalfe, 29, from Liverpool, N.Y., who was killed Saturday. Metcalfe was serving with the...
It’s a common threat during election season: “If my candidate doesn’t win, I’m leaving the country.” Now, JetBlue is offering voters a chance to fulfill the typically empty threat with their Election Protection 2012 program. “On November 6th, America will elect the next U.S. president,”...
A police union is coming to the defense of the Philadelphia policeman who was caught on video punching a woman in the face, following the police commissioner's decision to suspend the officer for 30 days with the "intent to dismiss."
Chris Brown has officially broken up with his model girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, according to his rep. “I have decided to be single to focus on my career. I love Karrueche very much but I don’t want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna....