Never underestimate how crafty moms can be. Four-year-old Anthony Smith of Salem, New Hampshire, was born with hearing abnormalities that left him deaf in one ear and with limited hearing in the other. When he told his mom he didn't want to wear the hearing device he calls "blue ear" because superheroes don't need hearing [...] More »Marvel Comics Creates Superhero for Hearing Impaired Boy
A near-record number of climbers reached the summit of Everest as the season ended Saturday without a repeat of last week's deadly accidents, which had raised fears of overcrowding on the world's highest peak. More »Everest season ends with 150 reaching summit
A Palestinian was shot and wounded on Saturday in clashes with Jewish settlers from the hardline Yitzhar settlement in the northern West Bank, witnesses and an AFP journalist said. More »Israeli settlers shoot West Bank Palestinian
The two surviving candidates in Egypt's presidential election appealed Saturday for support from voters who rejected them as polarizing extremists in the first round even as they faced a new challenge from the third runner-up who contested the preliminary results. More »Ex-Mubarak PM praises 'glorious' Egyptian uprising
President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans during Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. More »Obama honors veterans during Memorial Day weekend
It's an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won't be celebrating. More »50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town
Andrew Lee Patterson still shaves his head, like he did back in his white supremacist skinhead days. Back then, he did six years in prison for beating up two homeless people and a motel owner. More »Martial arts master's neo-Nazi past surfaces
Nicole Kidman Urinates On Zac Efron In 'The Paperboy' More »Nicole Kidman Urinates On Zac Efron In 'The Paperboy'
Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship. More »Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Firefighters managed to protect the remaining homes in a southwestern New Mexico subdivision overnight, but some outlying buildings were engulfed by flames from a fire that burned on rough mountain terrain near the Arizona border. Two fires merged in the Gila National Forest on Thursday and consumed 12,000 additional acres overnight, bringing the total burn area to 82,252 acres with none of it contained, said Public Information Officer Iris Estes. ... More »Firefighters save some homes from New Mexico wildfire
Chen Guangcheng's worst fears have been all but realized: a lawyer for Guangcheng's brother, Chen Guangfu, who also escaped house arrest, says he went missing Friday evening. More »Chen Guangcheng's Brother Has Gone Missing
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not "pour money into a bottomless pit" and patience with Greece is growing thin ahead of a new election in the Mediterranean country, a conservative member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet was quoted on Saturday as saying. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper that Germany, Europe's largest economy and the biggest contributor to rescue efforts, is glad to help Greece help itself but expects it to honor its agreements. "We're not willing to pour money into a bottomless pit," he told the newspaper. ... More »No German money for Greek ''bottomless pit'': minister
George Zimmerman's view of the Sanford, Fla., Police Department shifted during an eight-month period in 2011, CNN is reporting. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, called what he saw on ride-alongs with police "disgusting" at a public community forum in January 2011. However Zimmerman changed his tune [...] More »George Zimmerman changed his view of Sanford police, files show
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm. More »Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews lectured a fellow television reporter when asked about his 2008 comment that a speech from then-candidate Barack Obama sent a "thrill up his leg." Matthews was taking part in a discussion with C-SPAN host Steve Scully, who asked, "Is the thrill still there?" Visibly annoyed, Matthews turned to face Scully [...] More »Chris Matthews says he’s tired of ‘jackasses’ bringing up his past Obama praise
Just a month before its June release in the U.S., Paramount Pictures delayed the debut of "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" by nine months after another movie based on a Hasbro plaything was trounced at the box office by "The Avengers." More »'G.I. Joe' gets new marching orders, moves to 2013
The world's "most dangerous game" is on. A state in western India has given its forest rangers permission to shoot poachers on sight in an effort to curb poaching of tigers and other endangered wildlife. More »India Declares Open Season on Tiger Poachers
Climate researchers said Thursday the planet could warm by more than 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees Fahrenheit), boosting the risk of drought, flood and rising seas. More »Climate scientists say warming could exceed 3.5 C
Kidney stones are nearly twice as common now as they were in the early 1990s, according to a new study. More »Kidney Stone Rate Nearly Doubles in 16 Years
For the first time in history, there are now more unemployed Americans who attended at least some college than people who only graduated high school or dropped out of high school, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. Seasonally unadjusted BLS data from April show that about 4.7 million of the nation's 9 million unemployed either [...] More »Most unemployed Americans attended at least some college, for the first time ever
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