The man known to basketball fans around the world as "Sir Charles" has offered to perform a truly noble act, offering to pay for the funerals of three Philadelphia children who were killed Friday when a stolen van crashed into the fruit stand they and their mother were running to raise money for their church.

    A group of Air New Zealand passengers has been stranded for three nights after being repeatedly told their plane was delayed due to mechanical problems.

    A special European Union prosecutor says there are "compelling indications" that up to 10 captives were killed to have their organs harvested for illegal trafficking during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In another sign of deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia, the U.S. government said on Monday that Moscow had violated the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty, and urged immediate bilateral talks on the issue.

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    Fresh off of their fantastically adorable Comic Con panel, it feels like this season of Teen Wolf really got off the ground tonight, as the battle with the deadpool continued. We said some...

    Phew! That was quite a finale! There were tears, there was a proposal, there was Nick, being as dramatic/creepy as ever, and we were absolutely riveted. We could write you a novel about...

    One of Eva Green's most memorable outfits is causing controversy…again! The actress is getting heat for the sexy look she pulls off in Sin City: A Dame to Kill...

    Prince William and Kate Middleton are proof that royals can get a little goofy, too, even if it's not necessarily intentional. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the...

    While being a reality-TV star has certainly opened many doors for Kendall Jenner over the years, the 18-year-old says that there's at least one door she needed to find the key to all by...

    KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine killed at least 19 civilians, local officials said on Tuesday, as Kiev pressed an offensive to close in on the separatists.

    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Acting on a request from the central government in Iraq, a U.S. judge has signed an order telling the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a cargo of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan aboard a tanker off the Texas coast, court filings showed on Tuesday.

    NDASSIMA Central African Republic (Reuters) - Three young rebels, their AK47s propped against wooden stools in the afternoon heat, guard the entrance to the giant Ndassima goldmine carved deep into a forested hilltop in Central African Republic.

    KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai's powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack at his home, the office of the southern province of Kandahar said.

    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Acting on a request from the central government in Iraq, a U.S. judge has signed an order telling the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a cargo of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan aboard a tanker off the coast of Texas, court filings showed early on Tuesday.

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before being elected to Congress, Rep. Jeff Miller was a real estate broker. His background in sales will come in handy as the Florida Republican tries to a sell a $17 billion deal to improve veterans health care to a GOP caucus that includes tea party members and other conservatives dead set against raising the deficit....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite some good news, Medicare and Social Security still face long-term financial problems as millions of baby boomers reach retirement. Social Security's disability program is already in crisis as it edges toward the brink of insolvency....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A $1,000-per-pill drug that insurers are reluctant to pay for has quickly become the treatment of choice for a liver-wasting viral disease that affects more than 3 million Americans....

    FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- An American doctor who contracted the Ebola virus felt a deep calling to work in Liberia and was exhausted after months of treating patients with the deadly disease....

    NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote....

    BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank AG posted a 29 percent drop in second-quarter net profit Tuesday, hit by higher taxes, declining revenue and political instability affecting financial markets.

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asian stocks extended gains Tuesday ahead of U.S. and Chinese economic reports later this week while European markets were subdued amid the possibility of new sanctio…

    Apple Inc. may launch a Google Wallet rival as early as this fall with the roll out of the expected iPhone 6 as talks heat up with firms like credit card giant Visa Inc. over a new way for consumers to buy goods in physical stores, according to tech-industry publication The Information.Apple is said to be in discussions with several banking institutions and credit-card businesses about a system that would store a user’s sensitive financial data in a secured hardware element within the phone…

    FedEx Corp. faces new or modified charges in a drug-trafficking case that could already carry fines of more than $1.6 billion.In a joint status conference statement filed July 25 in U.S. District Court in Northern California, federal prosecutors said they intend to present a "superseding indictment" by Aug. 28 that would modify or add to the original indictment filed July 17.Memphis-based FedEx was initially charged on 15 counts of shipping or conspiracy to ship drugs for rogue online pharmacies…

    A potential deal to combine the two biggest names in online real estate could change the way people buy and sell homes.Combined, the two sites attract about 130 million Web visitors each month. They currently make money by charging agents to advertise properties on the site and some agent teams spend as much as $20,000 per month. Once they combine forces, some analysts are predicting that they will have such a large market share and so much leverage that they would be able to charge higher fees.An…

    A new study from UC San Francisco is the first to show that while the impact of life's stressors accumulate overtime and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well.

    Two years ago, an intense solar storm narrowly missed Earth. If it had hit, researchers say, we could still be picking up the pieces.

    About 100 drugs already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for other purposes can also prevent the growth of certain bacterial pathogens inside human cells, including those that cause Legionnaires' disease, brucellosis, and Mediterranean spotted fever. The findings, published in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, demonstrate a new way of identifying non-antibiotic drugs that could one day help curb bacterial infections.

    Two beneficial variants of a gene controlling red blood cell development have spread from Africa into nearly all human populations across the globe, according to a new study led by King's College London. The international team studied the genomes of world populations to look for the origin of changes in a key regulator gene which stimulate fetal hemoglobin production into adulthood.

    Researchers were able to demonstrate that appetite for sugar and 'mesenchymal behavior' result from the same mechanism. They also showed that the intensity of the phenomenon significantly influenced the chances of patient survival. Published in Cancer & Metabolism, this discovery opens up new potential targets for future therapies.

    NBPA elects Roberts as new executive director

    Rays keep winning, markup on Price is climbing

    Rays keep winning, markup for Price is climbing

    (The Sports Xchange) - Byron Scott said in a television interview that he is the new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers but the team insisted that an agreement has not yet been reached. ESPN reported Saturday that the Lakers and Scott agreed on a four-year, $17 million deal. The Lakers hold a team option on the final year of the deal. I always wanted to coach the Lakers, especially when I got to coaching.

    Report: Griffin skipping summer to heal back

    Measuring about 2.5 inches square and a half an inch deep, the Mikey Digital is small enough to stow in a pocket or backpack. The $100 multi-purpose mic is suited for recording the occasional podcast, your band's rehearsals, or interviews for work.

    Time does funny things to a lot of photographs. Rather than give them a sense of nostalgia, time too often makes them look silly. Open a magazine from, say, 1975 and look at the advertisements. Odds are the photographs are horribly outdated and what was once desirable and cool is now passé, even laughable. Photographer […]

    Now that Cadillac is putting 4G LTE in its cars, it makes sense to offer an equally advanced phone charging solution, one that doesn’t depend on wires that get tangled and in the way. So GM’s luxury arm announced Monday that its customers will soon be able to charge their phones just by putting them […]

    With the new Save Links feature, Facebook's main iOS app finally gets a built-in bookmarking service.

    It’s five o’clock, and your dog is excitedly wagging her tail and nuzzling against you. Your furry friend is hungry and seems to know that this is the hour you usually feed her. But was this performance a simple reaction to a rumbling in Ginger’s tummy or are canines actually able to somehow read the clock? […]

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    The two men charged in Friday's carjacking and crash in Tioga that left three children dead and their mother critically injured were arraigned early Tuesday morning.

    By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Officials and residents in the Boston-area city of Revere were picking up the pieces early on Tuesday after it was raked by a rare tornado that knocked out power and damaged homes and buildings. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down during a storm that brought heavy rains, lightning and flooding to Boston, Massachusetts, and many of its northern suburbs on Monday. "Obviously we had a monumental storm come through our city early this morning," Revere Mayor Daniel Rizzo told reporters. Rizzo wrote on Twitter that officials would be arranging a relief fund on Tuesday.

    SHINGLE SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Most of the 1,200 people driven to evacuate by a Northern California wildfire that destroyed 13 homes have been told they can safely return after a series of steady gains in the firefight.

    FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A longtime volunteer with a local animal protection organization in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges.

    BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and the European Union are preparing a powerful one-two punch against the Russian economy, with EU ambassadors meeting Tuesday to discuss a dramatic escalation in the trade bloc's sanctions....

    Itching to catch a wave? Try Madagascar.

    China's Communist Party says it has launched an investigation into a former domestic security chief who was once among the country's most feared leaders.

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Local authorities in eastern Ukraine say at least 22 civilians have been killed in one day by shelling....

    BEIJING (AP) -- China's Communist Party says it has launched an investigation into a former domestic security chief who was once among the country's most feared leaders....