A peculiar incident in South Carolina politics arose Monday, when one Republican political figure accused her opponent of challenging another person to a traditional shooting duel. According to The State, Katrina Shealy asked the South Carolina...

An experimental gene therapy recently tested on mice at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre found that by modifying a non-replicating virus to trigger production of an enzyme that repairs chromosomes, scientists were able to slow down...

Former MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan on Monday insisted that President Barack Obama was trying impose “unnatural and immoral” same sex marriage on the country “by coercion.” The conservative author asserted to Fox News...

A gay supporter of former Massachusetts governor and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney (R) has pulled his support and asked for his contribution back, the maximum allowed by law, over the candidate’s stance on same sex marriage,...

A 27-year-old Chicago man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges stemming from a major hack on the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor), a company the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks later called a “private CIA”...

Monday night Colorado’s general assembly rejected a bill that would have authorized civil unions for same sex couples in the state. The bill, which had been killed by filibuster in the regular session, resurfaced in the House’s...

A church in Beaverton, Oregon is suing a woman after she posted a negative Google review calling them a “cult.” Julie Anne Smith revealed on her blog in March that Pastor Chuck O’Neal and Beaverton Grace Bible Church had sued...

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday evening strongly criticized the thought of income equality existing and becoming a major problem in America’s economy. During a heated exchanged with Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers,...

London has pledged to host the greenest Olympic Games ever staged, but it could take years before the promises start to flower. The pledge was made seven years ago by then-prime minister Tony Blair when London won the right to host the 2012...

“Welcome to the most extreme golf in the world,” says the European Union ambassador to Afghanistan, as half-a-dozen heavily armed bodyguards fan out around him and scan the Kabul Golf Club course. But Vygaudas Usackas is not talking...

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLunapaid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday...

Software piracy cost the industry a record $63.4 billion globally in 2011 with emerging economies listed as the main culprits, an annual study said Tuesday. This was up nearly eight percent from the previous record of $58.8 billion in 2010...

She sees little more than shadows and shapes. However, American artist Bojana Coklyat not only pursues her passion for painting, but transmits it to children with impaired sight so that they can see the world in a new way. Coklyat, 33, lost most...

JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon will face shareholders’ wrath Tuesday after admitting that the top US bank lost $2 billion in derivatives trading in just six weeks. A day after JPMorgan let its chief investment officer go in the...

China has accused the Dalai Lama of “deceiving the world” and “spreading false information” after Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader said he was warned of a plot by Chinese agents to assassinate him. The Buddhist monk...