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New Anne Rice vampire book coming
Lestat de Lioncourt is back from the dead. Anne Rice's first Vampire Chronicles book since 2003, "Prince Lestat," is scheduled to come out Oct....
Joe McGinniss, author, dies at 71
Joe McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968"...
Demolition where Supremes once lived
The final phase of demolition began Monday for a well-known vacant Detroit housing project that once was home to boxer Joe Louis and members of the Supremes....
US calls heroin 'public health crisis'
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called an increase in heroin-related deaths an "urgent and growing public health crisis" and said first...
Obama learns a little 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T'
Aretha Franklin has much R-E-S-P-E-C-T for President Barack Obama — regardless of his spelling skills. At a White House concert last Thursday, Obama...
Russia warns Ukraine over 'lawlessness'
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced alleged lawlessness by far-right activists in eastern Ukraine, a statement likely to trigger alarms in Ukraine...
Blade Runner vomits during trial
Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock at his murder trial Monday as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he fatally shot. The...
Mystery deepens over missing plane
The mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 deepened Monday after search crews in the waters south of Vietnam failed to find any debris from the...
Rebels release nuns
Rebels in Syria freed more than a dozen Greek Orthodox nuns on Monday, ending their four-month captivity in exchange for Syrian authorities releasing dozens of...
Powerful earthquake shakes California
A very strong earthquake rattled the Northern California coast and was widely felt across the region, but authorities said early Monday that there were no...
Julian Assange talks at tech festival
Speaking over Skype from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his living situation is a bit like prison -- with a...
Vietnam may have found door to plane
Vietnamese authorities searching waters for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner spotted an object Sunday that they suspected was one of the plane's doors, as...
Ukraine won't give up 'single centimetre'
As separatists in Crimea kept up pressure for unification with Moscow, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its...
The reasons a jet would vanish
The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles above the earth. So the...
Pre-St. Patrick's Day blowout erupts
A pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration near the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts spiraled out of control, pitting police in riot gear against...
Missing jet may have turned back
Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were...
30+ hurt as California stage collapses
A stage at a Southern California high school collapsed during a student event and 30-40 people were rushed to hospitals with mainly minor injuries, authorities...
Spelling bee finally has W-I-N-N-E-R
A marathon spelling bee finally has a conclusion — after nearly 100 rounds and two weeks of anticipation. A seventh-grader and fifth-grader exhausted the...
Women arrested for protest at the Louvre
The Louvre has always showcased nudes. Never quite like this. Paris police say they arrested six women Saturday for baring their breasts and more outside the...
Mom who drove car into surf sees judge
A pregnant South Carolina woman pointed to the ocean, locked the doors of her minivan and rolled up the windows, telling her three children she was "trying...