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Malaysian authorities have seized a Malaysian orangutan who delighted visitors by smoking cigarettes tossed into her cage.

The Obama administration and lawmakers are scrambling to preclude an upcoming United Nations vote that could grant the Palestinians formal recognition as a sovereign state.

Former Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Monday, further sharpening the distinction between Romney and Texas governor Rick Perry.

The 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack brought all manner of people to the streets of New York City Sunday to mark the opening of National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, where the amplified reflections of people who lost loved ones echoed beneath an overcast grey sky.

A new study says natural gas would not slow down climate change: natural gas is cleaner, but from a climate perspective, it's complicated.

On the morning of 9/11, rookie fighter pilot Lt. Heather Lucky Penney put her jet on a crash course with United Arlines Flight 93

Much destruction remains

The World Trade Center and the Pentagon had already been struck when newly minted fighter pilot Lt. Heather Lucky Penney took to the sky on the morning of 9/11, determined to bring down a fourth plane that was hurtling toward Washington, D.C.

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 stunned the United States and the world, and pushed both in to a new era: The day remains the most important international event since the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

President Barack Obama's freshly unveiled $447 billion jobs plan would substantially boost the economy by creating 1.9 million payroll jobs and growing the U.S. economy 2 percent, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said.

Can't remember what was said

NASA has released footage of 9/11 shot by astronaut Frank Culbertson, who was on the International Space Station on September 11.

More than 1.4 million people plunged into darkness during a power outage that encompassed southern California and beyond can blame an electric utility employee in Arizona.

Republicans vying for GOP nomination wasted no time in criticizing President Barack Obama's jobs speech, and they weren't bashful.

The Federal Trade Commission has some bad news for the 150,000 smartphone users who purchased apps promising to alleviate acne: they don't work.

The United States has killed the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden. But in engaging in two costly wars, did the U.S. do much of what bin Laden wanted the U.S. to do?

Tropical Storm Lee's residual fury caused a renewed round of flooding across the northeast on Thursday, as rising waters forced the evacuations of some 120,000 people and killed at least six.

What does Perry's metaphor tell us about his beliefs?

Footage recorded by NASA Astronaut Frank Culbertson offers an unprecedented glimpse of the 9/11 attacks as seen from the International Space Station, some

2011 has been an unprecedented year for extreme weather, and a new report links the meteorological fury to the long arc of climate change.

NASA Astronaut Frank Culbertson has a fairly uncommon answer to where he was when the attacks of September 11, 2001 happened -- he was aboard the International Space Station, and he has the astonishing 9/11 footage to prove it.

Officials revised their estimates of the destruction wrought by the fires raging across Texas, tripling the number of homes consumed by a record breaking fire in hard-hit Bastrop County.

Gulnara GooGoosha Karimova is probably hoping her Fashion Week critics have kinder words than the diplomats who described her role in Uzbekistan's brutally repressive government.

Doctors are paid more in the United States than in any other country, a new study has revealed.

Even before President Barack Obama announces the details of his jobs plan Thursday night, Republicans are lining up to denounce the proposal and in some cases skip the president's speech altogether. The White House has sought to put the onus for a sagging economy on Congress if lawmakers do not act on the plan.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman delivered a forceful performance during Wednesday's Republican presidential debate, drawing on his experience as a governor and an ambassador to China to distinguish himself from heavyweights Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

Photos of the accident

A drink a day keeps the doctor away, according to a new study linking alcohol consumption to health in older women.

As the December deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq approaches, President Barack Obama is navigating competing pressures from military officials who support keeping American troops in the country and ambivalent Iraqi officials.