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The Washington state House of Representatives was expected to endorse gay marriage on Wednesday in a vote that would move the state another step closer to becoming the seventh to recognize same-sex nuptials.

Tuesday marked the 12th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which aims to address the disparity of infection rates in black communities.

The strange death of a high school student discovered at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) in Edinburg, Texas, was ruled a suicide by authorities.

Alyssa Bustamante, a Missouri teenager who strangled and stabbed her 9-year-old neighbor, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Wednesday.

A Staten Island mother has filed a $900 trillion suit against the City of New York for taking away her two children and putting them in a foster home over three years ago.

At 15.5 pounds, baby Chun Chun is China's heaviest baby. He was born on Saturday, in the city of Xinxiang in the country's Henan Province. Here are some of the heaviest babies at birth who have made headlines across the world.

Alyssa Bustamante, a teenage girl who strangled and stabbed her 9-year-old neighbor, faces the possibility of life in prison when she is sentenced on Wednesday.

The oldest living thing on Earth has been discovered to be a self-cloning seagrass in the Mediterranean.

Rajat Gupta, a former director of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble who is the highest-ranking executive charged in a U.S. crackdown on insider trading, could face additional allegations, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Fourteen hospitals from New York, Mississippi, North Carolina, Washington, Indiana, Missouri and Florida have agreed to pay more than $12 million to the United States in order to settle allegations that the health care facilities submitted false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Valentine's Day - the day of love and friendship is knocking your door. Make this Valentine's Day extra special by downloading some delightful iPhone, iPad apps. Check out the list of top 5 iPhone apps that would make your day more special.

A 15.5-pound baby boy named Chun Chun was born on Saturday in central China and is said to be the country's heaviest baby on record, according to reports.

Susan Powell's disappearance is being investigated by authorities as a likely murder even though they have left the case open to hopes that the missing Utah mom may be found alive, according to a report. The news of Susan Powell's possible death came after her husband Josh Powell killed himself and his two sons in an explosion at his Washington home on Sunday.

New York, NY - The New York Giants' ticker tape parade on Tuesday created an estimated $38 million boost for downtown Manhattan, according to Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Each day Facebook serves as a procrastination tool for students struggling to write papers, office workers stranded at their desks, and social media junkies getting their fix. But what if posting on Facebook was your job? What if users made money based on all the content they generated for the interactive Internet community? After all, Facebook wouldn’t be worth $100 billion without its dedicated fan base of Web addicts.

The hustling Los Angeles tech scene is revolving around a new center these days: an incubator called Science. It started just a couple months ago and is the work of former MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Color co-founder Peter Pham.

Ever since Jordan Hoffart decided to turn his back on the seemingly incessant rain of his native Vancouver, he has been living his dream as a professional skateboarder in the perpetual sunshine of southern California.

U.S. authorities are building a steel and concrete barrier 300 feet out into the Pacific Ocean south of San Diego to curb dangerous attempts by illegal immigrants and smugglers to slip through the breakers to California.

An appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case that may lead to a showdown in the Supreme Court.

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that California's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

The appellate court judges who ruled Tuesday that California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, mentioned Jumbotrons, Frank Sinatra, movies and Marilyn Monroe along with Supreme Court precedents in their decision.

Walmart will begin slapping Great For You icons to help consumers identify healthier foods made by its private label brand.

For self -styled world's greatest eater Furious Pete, all it takes to go from overweight blob to muscle bound hulk is a bag of chips, diet soda, chocolate milk and cooking oil.

The Ninth Circuit Court ruled in support of Judge Walker's decision that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, striking down the ban against same-sex marriage in California. But what does this mean for LGBT couples? What was Walker's original ruling? Who ruled in Tuesday's case? Here's everything you need to know, and what comes next.

Thousands of fans took to the streets of New York to cheer on the New York Giants.

Florence Green enlisted in the Women's Royal Air Force at the age of 17 in September 1918. Just two weeks before her 111th birthday, the World War I veteran passed away in her sleep at a care home in Norfolk, England. Green was the last surviving person to have served in that war nearly a century ago.

The U.S. 9th Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco Tuesday upheld a lower court decision, which had declared unconstitutional California’s controversial Proposition 8 banning same sex marriage.

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday found California's gay marriage ban unconstitutional in a case that is likely to lead to a showdown on the issue in the Supreme Court.

Lawyers for a U.S. Marine court-martialed for his role in killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha slammed the international hacking collective Anonymous as cowards on Monday after they knocked out the firm's website and published internal e-mails on the web.