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With the integration of online social networks into our everyday lives, past relationships can pop back into your life as quick and unexpected as a new email in your Inbox or a Friend Request on Facebook.

President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better ...

Oprah Winfrey called Sidibe a "true American Cinderella on the threshold of a brilliant new career." The next day, Howard Stern attacked Sidibe, calling her the "most enormous, fat black chick I've ever seen," and said Winfrey is a liar for "telling an enormous woman the size of a planet that she's going to have a career." Who's right?

Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

Few things are more irritating during tax season than the belated realization that you paid more in taxes than you had to.

British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines.

Nature's Variety has expanded its recall of chicken-flavored pet food because of concerns over salmonella.

Your racial and ethnic background can shape many aspects of your life: the type of food you eat, where you live, and your political views.

Conservationists say rate of new species slower than diversity loss caused by the destruction of habitats and climate change.

First-of-its-kind program in a U.S. city is designed to help women guard against HIV/AIDS infection.

U.S. food regulators announced a voluntary recall on Thursday of food made with a common flavoring that could be contaminated with salmonella bacteria but did not estimate how broad the recall will be.

Gaza's Islamic Hamas government on Thursday banned men from working in women's hair salons, the latest step in its campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on Gaza's 1.5 million people....

Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, not only take a toll on American consumers' health, they cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses, according to a report released Wednesday by a food safety group.

A newlywed Massachusetts couple spent their wedding night in separate jail cells after police said the bride tried to run over an old flame of the groom.

The vaccine, Prevnar 13, is effective against more types of bacteria, particularly a virulent subtype called strain 19A.