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Buck, a 48-year-old black man, was convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago. The court made the decision to spare him from lethal injection and agreed to look into his lawyers' claims that race played a role in his sentencing.

Amid a time of seemingly endless partisan bickering between Democrats and Republicans in Washington, United States Marine Corps Sgt. Dakota Meyer has shown everyone inside the beltway the bipartisan way: Meyer has been awarded the Medal of Honor for risking his life in Afghanistan numerous times to save 36 comrades.

70-million-year-old amber has trapped and thus preserved a collection of colored feathers that promise an unprecedented clues to structures in birds and dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period, according to a new discovery.

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Duane Buck, a black man convicted of double murder in Texas 16 years ago, after his lawyers argued that racial considerations factored in the sentencing phase of his trial.

Rihanna has been pictured in a variety of lacy bras and panties as she poses seductively in the back of a vintage car to front the new Emporio Armani lingerie campaign

What was projected in the iconic movie saga, Star Wars, by American filmmaker George Lucas has been revealed as a scientific fact by NASA's Kepler mission.

The Supreme Court on Thursday held back the execution of Duane Buck, who was convicted in a double murder case dating back to 1995, after his attorney argued that racial considerations had plagued the trial.

A former art dealer was arrested in Florida on Thursday on accusations he sold a Los Angeles collector forged paintings he claimed were by Claude Monet, Mark Rothko and others, federal prosecutors said.

Scientists working with NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a planet containing two suns as shown by the 1977 sci-fi movie Star Wars, breaking several galactic assumptions that were previously thought to exist only in science fiction movies or books.

Lindsey Lowe, 25, charged with first-degree murder.

Texas inmate Duane Buck was granted a stay of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday only hours before he was scheduled to die, after his attorneys contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial.

There is now a proposal waiting for the Board of Regents of University of California (UC) to vote on in Nov. if their university will take more money from their students or not.

Casey Anthony, who is now broke and unemployed, is in deep trouble as she was ordered Thursday to pay almost $100,000 to reimburse the authority who searched massively for Casey's daughter Caylee during five months in 2008.

A small collection of amber trapped feathers thought to have belonged to dinosaurs have been discovered in a Canadian Museum, a study has revealed.

Florida scientists discover ancient, giant crocodile.

Joshua and Jacob Spates, who spent their first seven months outside the womb as conjoined twins, are recovering in the pediatric intensive care unit of a Memphis hospital after a successful 13-hour surgery to separate them.

New Jersey's Fort Monmouth, known for advances in communication and military technology, will close its doors for the last time Thursday and move its workers to Ohio and Maryland.

John Skelton, whose three sons went missing last fall while in his custody, was sentenced to 10 to 15 years on Thursday, above the state guidelines.

A bright dazzling light sweeping across the Southern California skyline on Wednesday night was most probably just a type of meteor known as a fireball, NASA reported.

Casey Anthony's father George told Phil Dr. Phil McGraw he believes Casey killed her daughter Caylee, repudiating jurors who found Casey not guilty and astonishing his wife Cindy.

Is it too show-bizzy of us to be less excited about the revelations in Joe McGinnis's apparently hair-raising, 320-page Sarah Palin bio and more eager for a Tina Fey dramatization of it on SNL this fall?

Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt will continue paying his ex-wife $225,000 a month in spousal support, at least until the couple's divorce trial in November, under an agreement reached on Wednesday.

Religious broadcaster, Pat Robertson has sparked public fervor after he told viewers that it was ok to divorce a spouse suffering from Alzheimer's because the disease was a kind of death.'

The spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy were formed through two collisions with a nearby dwarf galaxy, a new study suggested.

Investigators are examining the human remains found in Utah desert

It is still a mystery how Willow ended somewhere that's nearly 1,800 miles away. It is also unknown the type of life she's been living in the city since.

There were at least four earthquake with magnitudes of 3.0 or higher on Thursday. Is that something the world needs to worry about?

An ancient harbor at Yavneh-Yam was used for hostage exchange, a Tel Aviv University (TAU) researcher says.

At least two people are dead and another 235 evacuated from a cruise liner that caught fire on Thursday morning near Aalesund, a port city on Norway's western coast.